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Of war and war’s alarms

18th June 2025 Going Postal 0

About this time for several decades past I set out to spend a month or so in Lapland. Lapland is a not well defined region that spans Norway to the north, a part of Sweden [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Twenty

29th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

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…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Nineteen

22nd January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Having visited Helsinki Central Station, nearby shopping streets and the cathedral, our mystery family will have made their way back to the ferry at Satama, pausing to have their photograph taken beside the distinctive dockside [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eighteen

15th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

From Helsinki Central Station, a five-minute walk takes one past the Ateneum and along Ateneuminkuja and Yliopistonatu to Senate Square, at the north end of which and up some steps sits Helsinki Cathedral. Billed as [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Seventeen

8th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Mystery Album we decided Helsinki Central Station showed the world a particular kind of Art Deco that stamped on some of the movement’s expectations. Purists half agree, preferring it transitionary from Art [more…]

20th Century

A Barren Shore, Part Two

23rd October 2020 Going Postal 0

An even greater slab of armour plate than the one we had stumbled across decades before, stood upright blankly showing its wounds, punched through and scored by shot, rusty red, the memorial to those Finns [more…]

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A Barren Shore, Part One

16th October 2020 Going Postal 0

This is a personal memoir of several visits to the far north and going realisation of what had always been before my eyes, unseen and recognised. I am not an historian and certainly not of [more…]

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