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Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part One

8th July 2021 Going Postal 2060 Comments

My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]

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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998

2nd July 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2955 Comments

A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998 Featured Album:  Life Thru a lens – Robbie Williams This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999.  Just cannot go on that [more…]

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Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 2176 Comments

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

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The Desert War – June 1941

30th June 2021 well_chuffed 1822 Comments

And so to June, the first anniversary of the Desert War and it was a hot month in more ways than one in Libya and Egypt. There is also a small report on East Africa [more…]

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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997

25th June 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3024 Comments

A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997 Featured Album:  Van Morrison – The Healing Game This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999.  Just cannot go on that much [more…]

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Postcard From Kanchanaburi

24th June 2021 Going Postal 3264 Comments

In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]

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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1996

18th June 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3679 Comments

A History of Pop Music Albums – 1996 Featured Album:  Lighthouse Family – Ocean Drive This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999.  Just cannot go on that much longer [more…]

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Scout Moor

17th June 2021 Going Postal 3995 Comments

In weather fit for neither man nor beast, we climb through a northern landscape, sculpted from rock by water, and the detritus from receding ice, to emerge into sunlight. And there we come across a [more…]

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Of Scherbius, Balme, Lee, Long, Pearce, Dolley, Roe, Wileman, Hargreaves, Trotter, Fasson, Grazier, & Brown….

16th June 2021 Going Postal 2350 Comments

It is indeed strange that the names of the people listed in the article title should remain so completely unknown today. Great innovators of the Weimar Republic during the 1920s, people like Gropius in architecture, [more…]

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