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Mystery Album, Part Eleven

27th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 2923 Comments

As we turn another page of our Mystery Album, it is not too difficult to identify the next sepia print. Any Puffin who has ever strolled along Federiksgade in the direction of Rosenborg Slot, perhaps [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Twenty – Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music

26th November 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3214 Comments

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…]

20th Century

Postcard From Summer 1954, Part Five – Llandudno

25th November 2021 Going Postal 3813 Comments

In 1954, the Manchester Evening News launched a “Special Investigation” and tasked my uncle, John Alldridge, with answering the question – Holidaymakers, do you get value for your MONEY? What follows is his report on [more…]

Engraving by Gustave Doré for Dante's Inferno
21st Century

Return to the Inferno

25th November 2021 Tachybaptus 4246 Comments

Set thirty years in the future As I reclined upon a heavenly cloud, Imbibing a celestial Chianti, I heard a voice crying my name aloud; ‘Twas Virgil in his toga, calling, ‘Dante, There’s work to [more…]

19th Century

Not Just a Walk in the Park

24th November 2021 SharpieType301 3752 Comments

It has been a challenging couple of years for us all, and I suspect that our trials and tribulations are a long way from over. Thus, as the autumn temperatures drop away to winter’s chills, [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Ten

20th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 3127 Comments

In this instalment of Mystery Album, some of our wealthy mystery family are off for a walk in the Swaledale countryside. While the ladies are elsewhere doing lady things, stout shoes (rather than walking boots) [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Nineteen – Blondie

19th November 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 4347 Comments

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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A Postcard From Tintern Abbey

17th November 2021 Going Postal 4260 Comments

Tintern Abbey (or Abaty Tyndryn if you speak Welsh) was founded on 9th May 1131 by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow. It is located near the border between Wales and England (Gloucestershire) on the [more…]

17th Century

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century “Strip” Maps

16th November 2021 Going Postal 3269 Comments

Introduction Sorry to disappoint you so early in the piece, but this article is not about the antics of the young Tom Jones, although undoubtedly he and his dissolute friends could and should have availed [more…]

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