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Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team

23rd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, A New Posting

16th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Fair Winds And a Following Sea This time on Nostalgia Album we are enjoying a new posting to a place where the White Ensign no longer flies. If in last week’s unread comments below the [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Seville

9th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Las Dos Infantas Elegantes Last time on Nostalia Album we left my father’s cousin, Anne, beaming on the quarry spoil of a Gibraltar beach. She was 15 and thriving in the crown colony, benefitting from [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Gibraltar Childhood

2nd July 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At first glance, it would seem unlikely to drive all the way from Carlisle to Gibraltar just to take a photograph of a filling station. Albeit an interesting one which was, as we saw last [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Journey’s End

25th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As every schoolboy knows, off the southern coast of the province of Cadiz the 3rd August 1704 ended briskly as Sir George Rooke’s fleet bombarded the Spanish isthmus of Gibraltar. The following morning, 1,900 English [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Seventeen

4th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid As long-suffering Puffins were finishing off last week’s episode of Nostalgia Album ( Aranda de Duero to Madrid) which terminated at the Plaza de Cibeles, thousands of Madridistas were gathering at [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Sixteen

28th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album, my father and his parents were heading south in their Ford 8 in the general direction of Madrid. The year is 1952 and Franco’s rural Spain must have appeared un-developed [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Fifteen

21st May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

From Irun on the Spanish/French border, my father and grandparents made their way south and east to San Sebastian in their heroic Ford 8. It is 1952. Famous for its magnificent double bay and beeches, [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Fourteen

7th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we followed my father and grandparents in their Ford 8 across the channel and down to the southwest of France via Louviers and Tours, all the way to glamorous Biarritz in the extreme [more…]

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