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Nostalgia Album, Part Six

12th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we discovered my father’s cousin John Jr gave his life for his country at Bone in Algeria in 1943. In the First War his father, John Sr, died of sickness after being discharged [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part One

5th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

No mystery here, this is Elihu, your modest reviewer of photographs grandfather. His father was also called Elihu and his grandfather was the John who Puffins with instant recall will remember lost half of the [more…]

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At the next junction, turn left

18th August 2020 rattuscatchus 0

It was whilst approaching a junction where the options are to turn left or go straight ahead – I was going straight ahead – that I had to move slightly to the right as there [more…]

20th Century

An Afternoon at the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

20th May 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Although we moved from Yorkshire to the South Coast 38 years ago and despite living only two miles from his premises in New Milton, I had only once previously visited Sammy Miller’s wonderful motorcycle museum [more…]

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