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20th Century

Postcard From Summer 1954, Part One – Bournemouth

25th October 2021 Going Postal 0

In 1954, the Manchester Evening News launched a “Special Investigation” and tasked my uncle, John Alldridge, with answering the question – Holidaymakers, do you get value for your MONEY? What follows is his report on [more…]

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Growing In A Pandemic – End Of Season

19th October 2021 Colin Cross 0

I’d intended to have a little rant about the continuing brouhaha surrounding “vaccines”, “vaccine passports” and such matters, as it seems pretty clear to me that those who we employ to govern us have spent [more…]

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Travels of the Unvaxxed – or how we had a Med summer holiday

18th August 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

You don’t need me to tell you that the last two years have been unprecedented. Our normal routines disrupted, jobs destroyed, way of life and freedoms removed all in the name of a bug. While [more…]

Drinking

My First Foreign Holiday

16th March 2021 Going Postal 0

I left school in July 1966 and started work as an apprentice in that September. I didn’t earn a lot of money but I did manage to save a little in the Bradford and Bingley [more…]

18th Century

Holding Hands – Part Two

12th October 2020 SharpieType301 0

In Part One, I explained that my husband and I travelled to Moelfre, not far from Oswestry, to see a sculptor by the name of Tony Meadows. During that visit, Tony had made an alginate [more…]

Arts

Postcard from the Isle of Man

3rd April 2018 Going Postal 0

As some of you may have noticed, I am a long-time resident of the evil tax dodging empire otherwise known as the Isle of Man. Apart from the beer guzzling, rubber burning hedonistic frenzy of [more…]

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Holiday

Postcard from Llywn-on

13th November 2017 Jonathon Davies 3,133

I chose this because it is one of my favourite places to go for a walk. I am keen walker and try and get out somewhere most weeks  Also, I wanted to show some of my [more…]

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