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The Secret Of That Dad's Army Joke Of 1904 ( 19 July 1974)
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The path of the local historian is bestrewn with pitfalls, especially when he (or she) writes of events which he himself cannot exactly remember but which older people can. This happened in 1952 to no less an authority than Sir Frank Markham – then Major S.F. Markham, North Bucks MP. That year saw the publication of ...
Bletchley's Other Secret
The History of Leon School 18070 – 2012 by Duncan & Grace Hume What do you do after teaching in a ...
More Noughts And Dots That Means Summat And Nowt! (12 July 1974)
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I see that the Wizard of O’s has been at it again – to the further bafflement and discomfiture of all we 60 and 70 year olds who now wrestle in despair with the intricacies of the metric system. This time he materialises in the form of an ‘important notice’ to customers of the East Midlands ...
Dialects Which Put An Accent On Spelling (5 July 1974)
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Although I say it myself, as shouldn’t, I have always been a pretty good speller of the English language. I know that practice makes perfect and that I have had a lot of it. Yet I do believe I was given a head start through my prior knowledge of the Yorkshire dialect, which was spoken ...
Costless Games The Children Used To Play (28 June 1974)
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What games do children play today around the streets and on spare patches of grass? I see pavements marked for hop-scotch. I also see girls skipping with a long rope swung by a girl at each end. But apart from that I see little to remind me of the improvised and nearly costless games of ...
It Wall Roll-Up And Queue-Up For The TV Look-In (21 June 1974)
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During my first two or three weeks in Bletchley in 1946 I was mildly curious about the di-pole (letter H-type) aerials attached to a number of houses in the town. I had seen many similar aerials before, but they had been on army masts and vehicles, not on civilian buildings. By some means which I have ...
Thanks And Relief Thanks To The Doc (14 June 1976)
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For many years after the war the local area Medical Officer was that genial Irishman, Dr. D.H. Waldron. Carl Moser, then Editor of the Gazette, and I first meet (sic) him over a cup of tea at the opening of the first council house in Whiteley Crescent, which was one of Bletchley’s earliest post-war estates. He ...
My Welcome To A Multitude Of New Mayors (31 May 1974)
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Hurrah for the new town of Newton Longville. And three cheers for its mayor. Hurrah, too, for the new town of Woburn Sands, though that has less historical justification. And hurrah for any other parish that wants to take the same step. Something is needed to enliven the greyness of the new local government scene. Maybe this is ...
Commuters Had To Pay A Ten-Bob Rent "Fine" (24 May 1974)
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No doubt Gazette readers were pleased to see in the May 3 issue that only one per cent of Bletchley’s working population were unemployed as against a national average of 2.9 per cent. They comprised 160 men and 40 women. As against this there were current vacancies for 400 men and 290 women. Wolverton was in a ...
Hawtin's Tales: A Soldier's Life - No Heroes, No Cowards
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Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories as a solider in the First World War. In this final episode Hawtin’s memories ...
Even The Bad Times Were Good For Men Like These (17 May 1974)
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Two of the most interesting men I met during my early years in Bletchley were Mr. John Robert (“Bob”) Bryant, of Duncombe Street, and his neighbour, Mr. Thomas Beckett, who lived round the corner in Osborne street. They came from rather different backgrounds, but they had one thing in common. There were allotment digging enthusiasts. ...
Hawtin’s Tales: A Soldier’s Life - The Valley Of The Shadow
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Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories as a solider in the First World War. In this episode Hawtin’s memories of ...
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