20th Century
Beachy Head To Brighton
Beachy Head Beachy Head is a prominent chalk headland located in East Sussex. It’s known for its stark white chalk cliffs that rise around 530 feet high, making it the highest chalk sea cliff in [more…]
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Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 6th July 2023 The Panel: Johnny Mercer (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Dale Vince (Ecotricity) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Venue: Fleetwood John Luther Mercer is a former Royal Artillery officer, risen to the rank [more…]
Arts
In Praise of the Naughty Girls
The news sent me scurrying to the attic to fumble in the dark with my watawat (behave yourselves). With girls’ football and Wendyball now equivalent in every way, the crafty chaps at association football’s governing [more…]
21st Century
Albania, Pirate Ships and a Royal Villa
As further proof that nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, in this week’s edition we diverge from my grandparents’ faded leather-bound family album from the 1940s and 50s and take a look at what [more…]
20th Century
Battle and the Long Man
Battle Abbey Battle Abbey, located in Battle, East Sussex, is a partially ruined Benedictine abbey built on the site of the historic Battle of Hastings. The abbey is dedicated to St Martin of Tours and [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time Brexit Special 22nd June 2023 The Panel: John Redwood (Conservative) Jenny Chapman (Labour) Ben Habib (Businessman) Prof Anand Menon (UK in a Changing Europe) Alastair Campbell (Former No 10 Press Secretary) Venue: Clacton-on-Sea [more…]
20th Century
Hellfire Corner
Dover In this week’s dip into the family album we have moved around the Kent coast from Ramsgate and have arrived in Dover. The White Cliffs, the outline of Dover Castle and the seafront make [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 15th June 2023 The Panel: David TC Davies (Conservative) David Blunkett (Labour) David Linden (SNP) Charlotte Ivers (Times Radio) Guto Harri (Former Boris Johnson Aide) Venue: Deeside David Blunkett (not his real name, [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Kent
Canterbury In our family album, my father and grandparents visited Kent and Sussex for a holiday in 1948. This was a time of great change and transformation in those counties as they, and the rest [more…]