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Lost Lions of Judah: Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion 1935-41 by Christopher Othen
Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion 1935-41 In the autumn of 1935 Addis Ababa was getting nervous. The Italians were just over the border building an army. A minor clash earlier in the year had escalated into threats, and military action. Now, Mussolini’s men were preparing to invade. Some of the Ethiopian capital’s inhabitants were worried by something closer to home...Read More -
Edinburgh's Leith Docks 1970-80 by Malcolm Fife
In the late 1960’s I was interested in aviation, and I purchased a camera to record my visits to airports and air shows. Not long after, I decided I did not wish to restrict myself to photographing a single subject, and I began to build up a collection of colour slides on shipping. Leith Docks, on the northern edge of...Read More -
Bristol Pubs by James MacVeigh
‘There is nothing which has been contrived by Man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Like King Street where it stands, the Llandoger Trow pub is distinctive and quirky, both architecturally and in the richness of its history. (Bristol Pubs, Amberley Publishing) Why would anyone decide to write...Read More -
East End Jewish Cemeteries by Louis Berk
An Oasis in Whitechapel - East End Jewish Cemeteries I am a secondary school teacher, and since 2004, I have worked at a school in Brady Street, in the heart of Whitechapel. I did not realise until I was looking out of a second story window one day that my school adjoins one of the oldest Jewish Cemeteries in the...Read More -
Planet Locomotive - A Fireman’s Life for me by Anthony Dawson
The life and day-to-day tasks of a locomotive fireman has not changed since Richard Trevithick invented his self-propelled kettle in 1803. As a Railway Volunteer at the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester – on part of the site of the Liverpool Road terminus of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, opened in 1830 – I have the privilege to work...Read More -
The Kitchen Garden by Caroline Ikin
When visiting historic gardens I’m always drawn to the walls. A high brick wall – too high to look over, and with no openings to peer through – offers a tantalising clue to what lies beyond: the kitchen garden. What was once the bustling hub of the working garden is now often left derelict, grassed over, converted to a private...Read More -
The Early Railways of Manchester by Anthony Dawson
The construction of the controversial Ordsall Chord in Manchester, enabling through-running between Piccadilly Station and Victoria, is the result of how the first railways came to Manchester in the 1830s and 1840s. It is rather ironic that, whilst the Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the world’s first inter-city passenger railway, its taciturn reluctance to work with other companies left Manchester...Read More -
Corvette: The Rise of a Sports Car by Mark Eaton
For many people, a car is just a tool to get them around which is a pity because not only is it a very expensive tool , but this very complicated piece of, quite frankly, amazing engineering gives them the potential of freedom that nothing else can, both of which seems to be lost on them. Kevin Warrington asks, in...Read More -
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel by Viv Head
I was not a young man when I came to sailing with a first cruise on a yacht from Southampton to Weymouth aboard a 38 foot Sigma. A fine boat sailed in company with an experienced crew. At the end of four days I recall saying – Well I enjoyed that but I don't think it's going to change my...Read More -
Fire Stations by Billy Reading
My interest in fire stations was sparked by a single building. As a student of architecture studying in Bloomsbury, I would wander about looking at buildings and streets, and kept finding myself back at Euston admiring the beautiful purpose-built 1901 fire station there, designed by HFT Cooper for the Fire Brigade Branch of the London County Council’s Architects Department. I...Read More