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Nostalgia Album, Part Two

12th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty One – Jim Reeves

11th February 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-One – Jim Reeves 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…]

19th Century

A Court for King Cholera

10th February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In 1967, as part of my Public Health Inspectors’ Education Board course, I remember attending a lecture given by Dr Moore, the then Medical Officer of Health for the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, [more…]

17th Century

A View From The Greenhouse (A Savile Jibe, Really?)

8th February 2022 Colin Cross 0

If you thought strawberry tales was boring, then I guess you’d better hold my coat (as the saying goes). Following several days of not being able to even enter the greenhouse, apart from a cursory [more…]

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King Arthur And The Battle Of Hastings

8th February 2022 bobo 0

Old, unhappy far-off things, and battles long ago… How do we know about King Arthur? Please note that this is not a rehash of the old “Did King Arthur exist?” historical chestnut. Whether or not [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part One

5th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

No mystery here, this is Elihu, your modest reviewer of photographs grandfather. His father was also called Elihu and his grandfather was the John who Puffins with instant recall will remember lost half of the [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty – Status Quo

4th February 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty – Status Quo 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…]

Engineering

Three Gyroscopes – Part 3

3rd February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]

19th Century

1850s British and American Rifle-Musket Cartridges Compared

2nd February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction My main interest in firearms has always been their technology and development, particularly during the 19th century which saw an incredible advance from flintlock, smoothbore muskets to semi and even fully automatic weapons. This [more…]

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