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Every Button is a Bit of France

3rd December 2024 Going Postal 0

18 August 1944 Ten minutes ago the shock-headed young signalman came swaying across the signals deck and grinned at me. He made a noise like a dive-bomber and his hands mimed an Focke-Wulf Fw 190 [more…]

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Across the Pennines on the C2C, Part One

1st December 2024 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

Hobbies

South Devon, Part Two

17th November 2024 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

Hobbies

South Devon, Part One

3rd November 2024 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

21st Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

19th Century

A Voyage to India, 1888

22nd October 2024 Going Postal 0

In October, 1888, Miss Kate Pettitt sailed from Liverpool to Bombay in the steamship Eden Hall.She was going to India as a governess with an English family from Manchester. The voyage took five weeks, and [more…]

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The Wolds, Part Two

20th October 2024 Joe Slater 0

It takes a week to cycle from Penzance to Berwick. It took me 40 years. Because on the way, I wanted to include every town in England, in what amounted to some two years of [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Eight – Sezanne

15th October 2024 Going Postal 0

This small French town of Sezanne is one of those places — like Crewe — that you are always passing through but somehow never get to know. Three routes nationales converge on it like the [more…]

21st Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Seven

12th October 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Shall we climb the Minecraft Library of Birmingham as far as Mrs AWS’s iffy-with-heights wobbly legs will take her? Find a balcony and enjoy the vista? Yes, we will, and we’ll take a few photos [more…]

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