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American Journey 1952, Part Five – Iowa

18th June 2024 Going Postal 0

Dubuque, Iowa The first thing you learn about the Middle West is the bigness of it. You could, for example, sink without trace the whole of Switzerland in Lake Michigan. The Illinois River at Peoria [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries, Part Five

12th June 2024 Going Postal 0

The Royal Tank Museum In Part 4, I described the vehicles that belonged to the British and Arab “Special Forces” of WW1 and WW2 that are displayed in The Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan. [more…]

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Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part One

11th June 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Tactical Force [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – 1956

7th June 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Elvis Presley with Hound Dog 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…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries, Part Four

5th June 2024 Going Postal 0

The Royal Tank Museum Amman in Jordan is home to one of the best museums of its type in the world, The Royal Tank Museum. A project of the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, the [more…]

20th Century

American Journey 1952, Part Four – Atlanta

4th June 2024 Going Postal 0

On a chill November night in 1864 a small boy lay trembling behind a rock — not a hundred yards from where I am writing this — and watched a city burn. It was the [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries, Part Three

29th May 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 1, I described how from the signatures on the front cover of a June 1939 edition of “Blackwood’s Magazine” purchased from an antiques fair, I found that the original owner, Edward Davis Moore, [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Three – Washington

28th May 2024 Going Postal 0

John Doe is Asking Awkward Questions The last thing I expected to pick up in this capital city of a great Republic (“the greatest Republic on God’s Footstool,” as I heard a Senator from Illinois [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – 1955

24th May 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Bill Haley & His Comets with “Rock Around the Clock”. This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]

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