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20th Century

This Is My England – Part Five

26th March 2023 Going Postal 0

If you want to see what a profound and lasting impression the war has left on the face of rural England you should make a point of travelling over that stretch of road that links [more…]

20th Century

A River Runs Through It

25th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Le Train Bleu Last time we teased that we were arriving at a quayside in Ostend to connect with the Istanbul Express as if Graham Greene’s characters in Stamboul Train. My grandparents’ Ford Prefect was [more…]

20th Century

This Is My England, 1950 – Part Four

19th March 2023 Going Postal 0

I was awakened that morning by the sudden furious ringing and clanging of bells — a sort of wild, insane music, as if some demented Dickensian sexton had been let loose in the belfry. To [more…]

20th Century

Ostend For Greeneland

18th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

According to those better able to describe such things than myself, decades ago the crossing to Ostend was one of drenched decks, the smell of steam and oil and of stale Bass from the bar. [more…]

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This Is My England, 1950 – Part Three

12th March 2023 Going Postal 0

I have had a particularly soft spot in my heart for Nottingham ever since an evening in June, 1940. There were about a thousand of us, dribs and drabs of a British Expeditionary Force, scooped [more…]

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The View From Sunnegga

11th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

It’s difficult to tell exactly where we are in old Zermatt, pictured below during my grandparent’s 1950s road trip. These days the town is short of public squares given what has to be squeezed onto [more…]

20th Century

This Is My England, 1950 – Part Two

5th March 2023 Going Postal 0

From Haddon Hall to Tideswell is only about ten miles. But to get from one to the other you have to travel across some of the bleakest, wildest, most God-forsaken country in England. On these [more…]

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Trag In Ruh (Take It In Your Stride)

4th March 2023 Always Worth Saying 0

Puffins will be familiar with a truism of the lower orders ducking and diving through the mean streets of Zermatt with a dagger between their teeth looking for a cheap room while the officer class [more…]

20th Century

This Is My England, 1950 – Part 1

26th February 2023 Going Postal 2

Since this journey must begin somewhere, let it begin here in Bakewell with the story of a tart. A Bakewell tart, which, of course — as they are quick to point out — isn’t a [more…]

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