21st Century
The Eurovision Song Contest 2022
It’s that time of year again…… The UK entry is Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN – United Kingdom 🇬🇧 – Official Music Video – Eurovision 2022 and is the featured track. The music is generally [more…]
History
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Forty-Three – ABBA
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20th Century
Operation Chariot – The Greatest Raid of All
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…]
20th Century
The War Correspondent, Part Two
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…]
20th Century
Newport Dock Disaster
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…]
20th Century
Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)
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
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…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music–Part Forty Two–Thin Lizzy
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…]
20th Century
The War Correspondent, Part One
Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When the first great war correspondent, William Howard Russell, went out to the Crimea for the [more…]