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Always Worth Saying’s Railway Review

5th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 1961 Comments

One tires of the streetcars of Paramaribo, the mineral railways of the Amazon, and even of rural Albania in the 1980s. Railway Review’s roving reportage shall change continents and seek excitement (but not too much) [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1981

4th July 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2250 Comments

Featured song: Squeeze – Labelled With Love This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]

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Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 2596 Comments

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

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The Iron Duke’s patience

23rd June 2025 well_chuffed 2577 Comments

Napoleon was very dismissive of Arthur Wellesley referring to him as the sepoy General from his time spent in India. In contrast Wellesley said that Napoleon’s presence on the battlefield was worth 40,000 men. In [more…]

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Changed Times?

21st June 2025 Always Worth Saying 2243 Comments

John Smyth was a Canadian-born British barrister and Christian evangelist born in 1941. Son of Colonel Edward Smyth, after prep school in Canada and public school in England, he completed his education at Trinity Hall, [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1980

20th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2783 Comments

Featured song: Blondie – Call me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it.  One [more…]

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Bill Boaks

12th June 2025 well_chuffed 2984 Comments

Bill Boaks was just one in a long line of eccentric political candidates. These days we have the Raving Loony candidates, Count Binface, bus-pass Elvis and a few others. Bill was in a class of [more…]

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Digitising Old Photographs

9th June 2025 NeverUpToTheJob 2101 Comments

The first in a short series of articles, which are partly technical (going into a little bit of detail about how the family archive of photos, 8mm home movies, and audio tapes was digitised), and [more…]

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The good war myth

9th June 2025 well_chuffed 2396 Comments

It has long been a given that World War 2 was a “good war”. The allies were fighting against the beastly Germans and “right” was on their side. A chap called Chad Crowley has put [more…]

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