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Nostalgia Album, Part Five

5th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Within weeks of the start of the Second World War, a residence survey was taken across the country with the information it provided used to issue identity cards and distribute ration books. On it, we [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Four – Manfred Mann

4th March 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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Postcard from Cyprus, 1996

2nd March 2022 Going Postal 0

By the early 1990s, computing in the Ministry of Defence was moving from huge, multi-million pound machines housed in air-conditioned rooms out into the offices on  minicomputers and personal computers running Windows. It’s hard to [more…]

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The Desert War – February 1942

28th February 2022 well_chuffed 0

January had finished with the Allies on the back foot in Libya, the Axis was advancing. It was all going pear shaped again. Although Tobruk had been relieved, the Axis armour hadn’t been destroyed, merely [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Three – The Doobie Brothers

25th February 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Three – The Doobie Brothers If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist [more…]

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The Revolution in Zanzibar

24th February 2022 Zombie Ramboz 0

I had probably already heard of the Zanzibar Revolution, perhaps I had read that Freddy Mercury arrived in the United Kingdom as a result of his family having fled the violence that took place there [more…]

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Memories of My Early Childhood

23rd February 2022 Going Postal 0

I was born in 1950 and I have very happy memories of my early years. I was lucky I guess. We lived in a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Church End, Finchley with decent sized front, [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Three

19th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The above photograph appears in our family Nostalgia Album captioned “Mauretania Southampton 1939”. Although every Big Boy’s Big Book of Big Ships says something different, the photograph, languishing in the Worth-Saying family album for 83 [more…]

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My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Two – The Small Faces

18th February 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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