20th Century
Nostalgia Album, A New Posting
Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]
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20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty-One – The Rat Pack
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
Celebrating The World’s Longest Serving Monarch
The recent Jubilee bank holiday weekend provided an opportunity to pause for thought and consider the service rendered by the world’s oldest and longest-serving monarch and head of state. No, not her. She gets enough [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Seville
Las Dos Infantas Elegantes Last time on Nostalia Album we left my father’s cousin, Anne, beaming on the quarry spoil of a Gibraltar beach. She was 15 and thriving in the crown colony, benefitting from [more…]
20th Century
My Legends of Pop Music – Part Fifty – The Moody Blues
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…]
21st Century
The Fall of Boris
All his life Boris had his eyes On winning that most glorious prize, The golden key to Number Ten, The greatest goal of powerful men. A chubby lad at a posh school, His one ambition [more…]
20th Century
The Wickedest Man in History
This is my uncle John Alldridge’s article for the Manchester Evening News on the 10th anniversary of Hitler’s death on 30 April, 1945 – Jerry F By today it was clear the Reichswehr had had [more…]
20th Century
Stand in the Trench, Achilles*
Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood
At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]