“George Horton of Keeper’s Cottage, Footherley, a farm labourer [he was 15 at the time] was summoned for trespassing on land in the occupation of Mr Alfred Ellison at Footherley. Mr C L Hodgkinson appeared for Horton, against whom it was stated that he was seen on the land….two s...
The article below originally ran in theLewisville Leaderin October, 1998 about finding lost friends. Some of the references are dated. Remember, in 1998 there was a marginal internet. Nobody had ever heard of Google. In those days, my preferred search engine was ‘Ask Jeeves.” Comrades in ...
But by 1947, the ‘Raj’ was simply closing up shop; grievously wounded by the late war and the horrible post-atomic world, the establishment was packing up and going home, leaving India and the soon-to-be-separate Pakistan to their own devices, for which the best of the British hoped ...
I am enough of an old fart to remember when the UK was originally considering whether or not to join the EU in the first place, or rather theEuropean Economic Community, as it then was. To the surprise of absolutely nobody who has ever glanced intoOur Island Story, this was a massively...
That was as good as it got for the group. When they release ‘Nobody Like My Babe’ it failed to trouble the charts. That’s not surprising as it’s a mediocre example of Merseybeat. Johnny Gustafson had originally been a member of The Big Three. However, when they split-up he ...
As the Titanic sank on colliding with an iceberg, no one really believed this could have ever been possible inasmuch as perceived strength of such innovation demanded any questioning of the invincible to be heresy and fantasy. So it is that the elite ranks of the kleptocracy, their bullhorns...
Chestnut. The room was buzzing with excitement when we sat down so I knew it would be a very special experience, and I was so right. The story begins when Céline Dion, (brilliantly played by Clare Kennedy McLaughlin) hijacks a Titanic Museum tour. What follows is a crazy, whirlwind of...