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Back To My Roots (1 December 1978)

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In the few weeks after my son was born he was the usual centre of attraction – among womenfolk at least. They peeped at him in his pram, made clucking noises, and then began discussing who he was like, his mother or his father. This was never suitably settled. Personally I didn’t think he looked much ...
The "Iron Road" The Robert Built (24 November 1978)

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I wonder how many people who travel regularly on the main railway line, or who pass over or under it, appreciate that it represents the greatest feat of purely manual construction achieved since the building of the Great Wall of China or the pyramids? Yet such is the case. And the man who engineered it, and ...
How Norman Got His Street Market (10 November 1978)

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Huge markets for the sale of general goods were a feature of many northern towns in my young day. You could get nearly everything you wanted there. Masses of people gathered and the clamour of the “barkers” was terrific. Some of the characters were never to be forgotten. There was a large, fat woman we knew ...
A 200-Year Methodist Masterpiece (21 October 1978)

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Wavendon Methodists have just been celebrating the centenary of their present church, which was opened in November 1878, and which superseded a much older one. Features of the celebrations have been a special service on October 15, attended by ministers and members of all churches in the Milton Keynes circuit; a reunion of former members ...
How We Faced The Fearsome Forties (14 October 1978)

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There is nothing like old newspapers for recalling the sights, sounds and atmosphere of former years. As far as I am concerned, you can keep your official histories and government-inspired reports on this and that. The real nitty-gritty comes through in the newspapers, even in periods when they are subject to some form of censorship. ...
What Fascination In Fishing? (7 October 1978)

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When we were boys, my brother and I went sea fishing whenever we could. This could only happen in those years when our parents could afford to take us to the seaside for a week. As boys, we could see no point in being at the seaside if we did not spend most of our time ...
All The Fun Of The Fair (30 September 1978)

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Only three or four miles from my home when I was a boy an event called Lee Gap Fair was held annually. In medieval times it had lasted three weeks, but by my time it had dwindled to a small horse fair on the first day of the three weeks, which we called “First o’ ...
Moz Joins The Honorably Unemployed (23 September 1978)

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When I was a boy of nine or ten I was playing with some other youngsters in one corner of a large pasture. In the diagonally opposite corner cows were grazing. We had been there for some time when one cow began making noises that told us something was amiss. We trotted over and were ...
I'm Not Pulling Your Shank - There Is A Ruddy Duck! (16 September 1978)

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My article referring to Canada geese and thence to birds in general has caused a flutter in my dovecote, so to speak. The 1930 list of birds in Bletchley which I quoted stands where it did as the only one I knew about. But I went on to suggest that local experts should get together to ...
Treacle Toffees And A Picture Of The Queen (9 September 1978)

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Back in 1927 Celia was a bright-eyed little girl who had reached what I can perhaps best describe as the doll’s pram age. Her father, Mr. E.C. Cook, was head of the Bletchley Road Senior School for Boys, and they lived in a brand new detached house along Buckingham Road. She so loved being taken ...
For The Record - A Catalogue Of The City's Wildfowl (2 September 1978)

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I was rather pleased at the controversy in the Gazette’s letter columns by the proposal to introduce Canada Geese to the Mount Farm lake. Not that I relish the idea of people going at each other with beak and claw. It is simply nice to know there are so many people taking a keen interest ...
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