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Evergreen Autumn 2010
Our Location Map on the inside front cover, illustrating the places mentioned in the magazine, looks particularly spiky for this issue with arrows pointing north, south, east and west!
In the south-west of the country, Launceston in Cornwall is the subject of our “Home Town” feature, which proves to be a place of fascinating history, legend and unusual tales. We also drop anchor at Portsmouth, for an “Almanac” article which has a seafaring theme: 40 years after the practice ceased, a former Commander in the Royal Navy explores the customs and stories associated with the daily tot of rum given to sailors. Travelling north-east to Dagenham there are absolutely no maritime connections in our “Cinemagic” feature – although, coinciding with the release of a new film (“Made in Dagenham”), it does recall a violent “storm” that blew up in 1968 when a group of sewing machinists successfully went on strike for equal rights! Strong, enterprising women also appear elsewhere in the magazine: one hundred years after her death we pay tribute to Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp; and in our series of television memories, Britain’s first female newsreader, Barbara Mandell, is remembered.
Not forgetting the men who have played an important part in shaping Britain’s history and culture, “The Literary Pilgrim” examines an influential chapter in the early working life of H.G. Wells, “The Legacy of Arthur Lockwood” recalls the man whose name lives on in a Welsh lake, and our “Music Makers” tells the life story of Britain’s first rock and roller Tommy Steele. Other articles in the autumn issue focus on the little-told story of German prisoners of war in Britain, the Scotsman with a passion for his classic Talbot and Jaguar cars, the preserved steam railway in the Forest of Dean, and the stories behind the popular children’s nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle”. As usual the magazine is sprinkled with poetry, readers’ reminiscences, nostalgic photographs and numerous jokes and funny stories.
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