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Desert Mysteries Redux – Part Four

24th July 2024 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I included a photograph of a Hawker Hart with most of its fabric covering stripped off as a potential Desert Mystery regarding its fate. Further research has revealed that K4907 apparently had [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Four

16th July 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Vachakos First [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries Redux – Part One

3rd July 2024 Going Postal 0

In the original Desert Mysteries series, I wrote about a 1939 edition of Blackwood’s magazine bought at an antiques fair that led me to research the lives of the men who had read it and [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Three

2nd July 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Fort Hall, [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Two

25th June 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Nairobi Terror [more…]

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Poland about to deploy mines on Russian borders

24th June 2024 Going Postal 0

Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. NATO continues to escalate its conflict with the Russian Federation. In a recent statement, an important Polish member [more…]

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Postcard From Edinburgh Castle

22nd June 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Mrs AWS and I are enjoying our day trip to Edinburgh. Although we’re used to exploring Princes Street, this time we are swept in a crowd of alighting passengers at Edinburgh’s Waverley station in the [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mysteries, Part Six

19th June 2024 Going Postal 0

In the film “Lawrence of Arabia”, Lawrence is asked, “What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you, personally, to the desert?” His response was, “It’s clean. I like it because it’s clean.” This quote is [more…]

21st Century

France Isolated in its Proposal to Send Troops to Fight Russia

19th June 2024 Going Postal 0

By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. France appears increasingly isolated in its decision to intervene directly in the Ukrainian conflict. Not even major [more…]

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