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Nostalia Album, Heading Home

30th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 2893 Comments

Malaga to Motril and Beyond Having made an heroic 1952 journey from Carlisle to Gibraltar in a Ford 8 in order to visit Aunt Lil, Uncle Rob and cousin Anne, my father and grandparents set [more…]

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Lake District Memories

16th June 2022 Going Postal 3466 Comments

On Christmas Morning 2021 I was taken by ambulance to hospital suffering from a clot on the lung brought on by Covid (Covid Pneumonitis). It was to be the beginning of ten days there, most [more…]

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Press Photographer, Part Two

2nd June 2022 Going Postal 2580 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) In almost every great news story of recent times Luck has been the deciding factor. You [more…]

20th Century

Press Photographer, Part One

26th May 2022 Going Postal 3118 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) Halfway over Putney Bridge the No 14 bus jolted to a halt. Behind it the rush-hour [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Eight

26th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 2187 Comments

After last week’s Nostalgia Album sadness at hearing great aunt Ernestine lost her husband in the First War, her son in the Second War and spent much of her life in the Lancaster County Mental [more…]

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My Life in a Virtual Bookcase

9th March 2022 Going Postal 4379 Comments

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” Marcus Tullius Cicero Having recently downsized, I no longer have room for a permanent display of the books and other items that [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Three

19th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 2821 Comments

The above photograph appears in our family Nostalgia Album captioned “Mauretania Southampton 1939”. Although every Big Boy’s Big Book of Big Ships says something different, the photograph, languishing in the Worth-Saying family album for 83 [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Two

12th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 2542 Comments

The above photograph was taken on March 25th 1936. How can we be so certain? The marquee to the left can be seen at the beginning of a video clip below, the occasion being the [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Twenty

29th January 2022 Always Worth Saying 3254 Comments

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…]

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