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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Four – Carole King

20th May 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (iii)

16th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-July 2010. I was sitting outside our tent on the Municipal Campsite at Bléré, in the Indre et Loire département of central France doing a crossword and [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Three – ABBA

13th May 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured image: “abba-th” by opethpainter is licensed under CC BY 2.0  To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse   © Phil the ex test manager 2022  

20th Century

Operation Chariot – The Greatest Raid of All

12th May 2022 Blown Periphery 0

Follow… Follow… Leave your England at dead midnight still Guarded by grandsires, babes and old women, Either past or nor arrived at pith and puissance. For who is he, whose chin is but enrich’d With [more…]

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The War Correspondent, Part Two

12th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) During the course of World War II the Press War Correspondent found himself in competition with [more…]

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Newport Dock Disaster

10th May 2022 Going Postal 0

Newport in South Wales sits astride the mouth of the River Usk and so its history has long been connected to maritime commerce, with wharfs recorded lining the banks of the river since the 1500s. [more…]

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Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Fourteen

7th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we followed my father and grandparents in their Ford 8 across the channel and down to the southwest of France via Louviers and Tours, all the way to glamorous Biarritz in the extreme [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty Two–Thin Lizzy

6th May 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Two – Thin Lizzy If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from [more…]

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