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20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (iii)

16th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-July 2010. I was sitting outside our tent on the Municipal Campsite at Bléré, in the Indre et Loire département of central France doing a crossword and [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (i)

25th April 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In common with many boys who like me were fortunate enough to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s, I spent much of my spare time building and flying Keil Kraft balsawood & tissue [more…]

19th Century

A Court for King Cholera

10th February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In 1967, as part of my Public Health Inspectors’ Education Board course, I remember attending a lecture given by Dr Moore, the then Medical Officer of Health for the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, [more…]

20th Century

The .303 Pattern 1914 – the Best Battle Rifle the British Army Never Had?

2nd November 2021 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction The humiliations suffered by the British Army at the hands of untrained Boer irregulars during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 caused a great deal of concern at the War Office where questions were soon [more…]

20th Century

De Profundis or How Green Was My Valley?

15th March 2021 Tom Pudding 0

I qualified as a public health inspector (PHI) in Hull in 1968 and after a couple of years with a rural district council in South Norfolk, at the tender age of 22 I found myself [more…]

20th Century

My Meeting with a Midget

14th November 2020 Tom Pudding 0

1950s Motoring Memories When I was growing up in the 1950s I only knew two other children at my junior school whose parents owned a car. One was the son of a butcher whose dad [more…]

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William George Bunter of Greyfriars School

24th September 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction I recently emerged from a stunning and brave expedition into the furthermost recesses of our capacious loft space clutching a dusty cardboard box bearing the single word ‘Books’ that had lain forgotten there for [more…]

Computing

How to replace a broken laptop screen

1st September 2020 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction I suppose I’ve always considered myself to be pretty practical and over the years I’ve rebuilt car and motorbike engines and done all my own servicing and repairs saving a fortune in the process. [more…]

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