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Trade Plating Around England, Part Five

29th April 2023 Going Postal 0

This time, We go digital and getting between jobs   Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here [more…]

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Trade Plating Around England, Part Four

22nd April 2023 Going Postal 0

Driving the minibus, a bit of racial tension and a near punch up. Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part [more…]

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Trade Plating Around England, Part Three

15th April 2023 Going Postal 0

How it all hangs together and how easily it goes pear shaped. Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one [more…]

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Trade Plating Around England, Part Two

8th April 2023 Going Postal 0

Out on my own Brief recap, I spent two and a half years trade plating round England with the occasional foray into Scotland and Wales. Part one is here. I received a text on Friday [more…]

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Trade Plating Around England, Part One

1st April 2023 Going Postal 0

This is part 1 of a few about my trials and tribulations of two and a half years spent as a trade plate driver. You are bound to have seen “platers” with their red and [more…]

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Somewhere West of Laramie

25th May 2021 Going Postal 0

It was an evening in June 1923, and a Union Pacific train – “The Overland Limited” – was working its way west across the wilds of Wyoming. Onboard was Ned Jordon, president of the Jordan [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part 5

12th May 2021 Going Postal 0

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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Cars I Have Loved (And Hated)

22nd December 2020 Going Postal 0

Over the years, like I suspect most of you, I have owned quite a number of cars. Some I have loved, some I have hated, some I have been indifferent about. Ford Escort Mk 1 [more…]

20th Century

My Meeting with a Midget

14th November 2020 Tom Pudding 0

1950s Motoring Memories When I was growing up in the 1950s I only knew two other children at my junior school whose parents owned a car. One was the son of a butcher whose dad [more…]

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