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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Eighty-Two

25th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It’s a bit cloudy this morning and I see, according to the forecast, it’s going to rain in London later this morning. Legohead held a presser this morning to [more…]

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Enemies Within: Mouchard!

7th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]

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Enemies Within, Part Four

30th November 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

In late February of 1894, a far-fetched tale appeared in the London penny dreadful newspapers. It concerned the untimely death of an anarchist, Martial Bourdin, blown up by his own bomb near the Royal Observatory [more…]

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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…]

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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…]

19th Century

Postcard from Birmingham, Part Six

28th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

In recent weeks we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by summer riots, 1980s football matches and pop concerts, the Falkland Islands and even the delivery of mail to the South Pole at Christmas. Puffins [more…]

20th Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Five

21st September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

There are two schools of thought, volunteer for everything, never volunteer for anything. I knew a chap sent to the South Atlantic. At Mount Pleasant airfield in what the Guinness Book of Records describes as [more…]

20th Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Four

14th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Earlier this year, as my wife and I passed Birmingham’s Town Hall during our day trip from the North, we hummed Mendelssohn’s Elijah which debuted in the city’s triennial music festival of 1846. At that [more…]

19th Century

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Three

7th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]

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