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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

18th December 2023 Going Postal 2187 Comments

Two young men, in a souped-up old Chevy, travel across the USA, making what money they can by betting on the drag races they enter. Along the way they’re joined by a lost hippie girl, [more…]

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Slow Boats To Africa, Part Two

12th June 2023 Going Postal 2514 Comments

In Part One we followed the journey of Irishman Charles Freeman, on the SS Medic down the west coast of Africa, from Liverpool to Cape Town in 1927. The ship was continuing on to Australia, [more…]

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Slow Boats To Africa

30th May 2023 Going Postal 2379 Comments

Previously, in “The Sore Seated Safari”, we followed one Charles Henry Freeman and some compatriots, on a 1929 road trip from the town of Iringa, in Tanganyika, to Nairobi in Kenya. But what were they [more…]

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The Sore Seated Safari, Part Two

14th April 2023 Going Postal 2769 Comments

We left our travellers on the evening of September 25th, 1929, as they settled down for a night’s sleep in the village of Bereku, Tanganyika, about 37 miles north of Kondoa Irangi. Today it boasts [more…]

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The Sore Seated Safari

6th April 2023 Going Postal 2602 Comments

In the cupboard to the left of my desk, sits a large cardboard box filled with old family photo albums. These arrived in my parent’s house in the early 1980s, after the death of my [more…]

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Somewhere West of Laramie

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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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