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TANKFEST 2026 & The Tank Museum, Pt 1

20th August 2026 Going Postal 0

For Father’s Day this year, my brother suggested taking Dad to TANKFEST, the annual event held at The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset. Yes… yes, let’s do that! Having visited the museum a few years [more…]

15th Century

A View From (A Harbour Some Miles Away From) The Greenhouse; On “Northerner-Ness”

18th August 2026 Colin Cross 0

When I was at school, many moons ago now, history was something that was taught to us without the strictures surrounding Colonialism, White Supremacy, Racism and the usual “phobia”. When I discovered that a replica [more…]

18th Century

The Railway’s sleepers: the Patron, the builder and the Polymath

17th August 2026 Going Postal 0

A final journey into history to meet three men whose names never sadly made it into popular memory but who, like all the others, laid the foundations still used by the railways to this day. [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1968

14th August 2026 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: Dianna Ross & The Supremes – Greatest Hits This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for [more…]

20th Century

Walking in Memphis

12th August 2026 Going Postal 0

I guess you know this is a song. The Cher version is crap but Marc Cohn’s one in the early 90s was great Anyone who has heard of, let alone been, to Memphis will associate [more…]

21st Century

Postcard from Mumbai

11th August 2026 Going Postal 0

After a long, hot site visit in Panoli, a small industrial town in Gujarat, the traffic on the main Ahmedabad to Mumbai highway was even more hideous than usual.    It was the last day of [more…]

18th Century

Nicholas Wood: The man who wrote the book on railways

10th August 2026 Going Postal 0

He taught Robert Stephenson his trade, judged the Rainhill Trials, and wrote the first proper book on railways, the one that engineers across the world actually used. Not all of us can be gallivanting around [more…]

20th Century

The Westland Whirlwind

5th August 2026 Blown Periphery 0

The Whirlwind was a twin-engine, heavy fighter developed by Westland Aircraft, not to be confused by the Westland Whirlwind helicopter of many years later. It was developed in the 1930s as a heavy fighter and [more…]

19th Century

Beamish: the Museum that said yes to everything

3rd August 2026 Going Postal 0

You may be surprised to learn that a working time machine has already been invented in County Durham. It exists because one man refused to let the region throw its own history into the skip. [more…]

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