How do I stop Safari from refreshing pages on my iPad?

This is really annoying.  I am not sure if it is related to time or to memory.  (it's not auto-refresh set by the website).  I often load up several web pages in tabs that I would like to read on the train to work.  Unfortunately when I open the tabs, they refresh eating into my data plan.  If I switch off data, then the pages still try to refresh and I can't see them at all.
surely there must be an iPad Safari option to stop pages from automatically re-loading?

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