Queen of the sea
Yesterday was spent in Portsmouth looking at the Mary Rose – one of the earliest proper battleships and a founding …
Category Archives: Past Times
Victory at Christmas
Doctor, doctor …
Have you been watching the new Dr Who? I have. And, on the whole, I like it. It seems to …
Fort Nelson
Not somewhere I would naturally chosen to spend a cold or indeed any other kind of day, but Fort Nelson, …
Up The Palace
Wednesday’s challenge was to find something interesting to do on a wet day in November within 30 minutes travel of …
Juvenalia
Found this poem on the fridge – it dates from just after the Precambrian (or Lower 6th, as we used …
Borderland
These pictures from 1974 show the border between East and West Germany – to the right, you can see an …
It was fifty years ago today …
Well, maybe more – but not much. Currently scanning my old slides and came across this one taken using Kodachrome …
The final pick
I’ve been sorting out – a better word would be curating – the remains of Uncle Harry’s slides. I’m interested in …
Suspiciously like Charles I
St John the Evangelist in Leeds is unusual in that it was a Jacobean new-build (1632-34) and, although it has …
After Work 