19th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Four
With there being only 11 years between them both my grandfather, Elihu, and his nephew, John Jr, joined up for the Second War. Last time we looked at my grandfather’s service in the RAOC and [more…]
Always Worth Saying
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Three
The above photograph appears in our family Nostalgia Album captioned “Mauretania Southampton 1939”. Although every Big Boy’s Big Book of Big Ships says something different, the photograph, languishing in the Worth-Saying family album for 83 [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 17th February 2022 The Panel: Jake Berry (Conservative) Andy Burnham (Labour Mayor of Manchester) Juergen Maier (Industrialist) Inaya Folarin-Iman (Journalist) Frances O’Grady (TUC) Venue: Leeds In a direct, Yorkshire sort of way, the [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 10th February 2022 The Panel: George Eustice (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Labour) Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru) Sebastian Payne (Financial Times) Laura McAllister (Cardiff University) Venue: Newport Dicks out, announced Fiona Bruce (Chair). Delyth Jewell [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Two
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
Nostalgia Album, Part One
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…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd February 2022 The Panel: Crispin Blunt (Conservative) Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour) Robin Shattock (Imperial College) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Tim Stanley (Journalist) Venue: Tottenham In last week’s review, eagle-eyed readers spotted I’d confused [more…]
History
Postcard From Osh
A promise was made to Puffins regarding a dispatch from Kazakhstan to report upon the fighting between Kazakh forces, Russian paratroopers and ‘fuel protestors’. Located at Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, a correspondent was only 12 miles [more…]
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Twenty
My own (reprinted) 1887 Bradshaw’s Guide shows an eclectic array of east coast shipping services connecting ourselves with continental Europe before the days of the noisy and inconvenient aeroplane. Goole to Dunkirk for 15 shillings [more…]