That Reminds Me was a weekly column published in the Bletchley Gazette from January 1973 to December 1978.
Originally from Yorkshire, Harold (Heppy) Hepworth had worked on The Gazette for twenty years. He preferred to describe himself as a reporter, though his title was officially Leader Writer or Assistant Editor. Later, we believe after his retirement, he began this series of articles on a wide variety of topics – though mostly about life and the characters in Bletchley. Our volunteers Wendy Williams and Penny Perdue have transcribed these stories and we present them now, as before, in a regular offering.
Creator
Harold Hepworth for the Bletchley Gazette
Place
Bletchley
Reference number
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In two or three days’ time it will be Remembrance Sunday. Curiously enough, when that day comes round my thoughts turn not so much to that war of 30-odd years ago in which I was personally involved as to the war of 20-odd years before that – the war of 1914-1918.
How can that be? I ...
Three business premises now occupy the site in Bletchley’s Queensway of two former semi-detached houses, in one of which I lived for three happy years. Next door lived Mr Ray Holdom and family. From there he carried on a music business previously run by his father. In those days I used to do quite a ...
A number of small matters have lately engaged my interest. Matters like the proposal to turn Gayhurst House into separate houses and flats.
Incidentally, the English Place Names Society say that Gayhurst means “goat wood.” The Old English word for a goat was pronounced “gate” and a wood was a “hurst” – hence Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst ...
One of the Met Office’s cold northerly airstreams is passing though these parts at the time of writing.
We had a marvellously hot and dry summer, followed by a period of so much rain that reservoirs which were said to be at crisis levels have been refilled in record time and ground that was bare is ...
For the past few years, residents of West Bletchley have had a good laugh at the very idea of becoming a smoke control area.
They have pointed upwards to the reeking chimneys of the LBC brickworks and have said: “What? Stop our small domestic fires when almost next door we have those huge chimneys spewing smoke ...
Little Brickhill is on the warpath again. And yes, it’s about the Watling Street and how once more the growth of traffic is not only threatening to isolate one side of the village from the other but is also threatening the very lives of the people.
The people say that in 12 months the amount of ...
A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS. And for goodness’ sake cheer up, everybody. Especially you younger ones. For I tell you without much fear of contradiction that the average person aged 65 and over has come through at least 35 years which were worse than this one. If any fellow oldey doubts this, let ...
I apologise for the non-appearance of my usual odds and ends in last week’s Gazette. You see, I went to another part of the country for Christmas, thinking the paper would miss a week’s publication at Christmas, as it had done for several years past. But it did not miss, and I returned from holiday ...
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