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Report From Israel, 1957 – Part Four

16th January 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the fourth of his reports. – Jerry F Kefar Hanasi, Upper Galilee Not so very long ago, Gershon Epstein was a [more…]

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Crash of Bristol 175 Britannia 101– 4th February 1954

15th January 2024 Going Postal 0

On the morning of February 4, 1954, G-ALRX took off from Filton on a test flight, with Captain A.J. ‘Bill’ Pegg at the controls. Flight Engineers for the trip were Ken Fitzgerald and Gareth Jones. [more…]

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Monuments, Ley Lines And a White-Coated Jobsworth

13th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Salisbury Plain The 1949 page of our old family photo album is confidently captioned ‘Bournemouth’ but neglects any images of the Hampshire Riviera resort. Not to worry. They say that getting there is half of [more…]

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Postcard From Kaunas

10th January 2024 Novak and Goode 0

As 2nd cities go Kaunas, seems at least, at first glance, to be a pretty unprepossessing sort of place regardless of whether you arrive by air, road or rail. Arriving by train reveals an industrial [more…]

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Teh 1970’s & all that

8th January 2024 Going Postal 0

One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory.   It is only later in life [more…]

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The Dreaming Spires

6th January 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

The 1949 page of our old family photo album is confidently captioned ‘Bournemouth’ but neglects any images of the Hampshire Riviera resort. Not to worry. They say that getting there is half of the fun [more…]

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From Palestine to the JFK Assassination

3rd January 2024 Going Postal 0

Lyndon Johnson’s installation changed the geopolitical topography JFK’s death was followed by his brother within five years; his son 36 years later Killing Kennedy was not the main objective but to install Lyndon Johnson The [more…]

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Report From Israel, 1957 – Part Three

2nd January 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1957 my uncle, John Alldridge visited Israel for the Birmingham Mail. This is the third of his reports. – Jerry F The first you see of it is a row of whitewashed oil drums, [more…]

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Postcard From Kiruna

29th December 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Having been presented with the key to the door, my wilful 21-year-old self used the opportunity to close the lock tightly behind him and allow the trade winds to billow his sails north, all the [more…]

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