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- ↑ "Walsall Museum to Close Next Month" Museums Journal. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ↑ Culture24 , retrieved 8 November 2015
- ↑ The Hand of Glory and the White Hart (PDF), retrieved 8 November 2015