Showing posts with label Jonathan Meades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Meades. Show all posts
Monday, August 03, 2026

Northwood Lane, Bewdley: The Elan Valley Aqueduct, The Singing Detective and Jonathan Meades

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Fire broke out beside the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) bear Bewdley yesterday, reports the Shropshire Star . I don't know if it was cause...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Jonathan Meades: Remember the Future (1997)

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The news that the Jodrell Bank telescope may soon be no more sent me back to a piece by Jonathan Meades : Concorde was seen in the sky over ...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

1963: London's summer of the Hoverbus

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Jago Hazzard looks back to a short-lived transport experiment that took place in London in the summer of 1963. From 1 July to 31 October, a ...
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Monday, March 09, 2026

Jonathan Meades on the BBC on the BBC's own buildings

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Thanks to Illuminations Media for pointing me to this Jonathan Meades video from 1989.
Friday, October 03, 2025

Jonathan Meades talks to Mark Lawson

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Recorded in 2006: "It's as much music hall as it is lecture hall, the stuff I do, I think. I might want to be Geoffrey Hill, but pa...
Saturday, July 05, 2025

The Victorian age and the 1950s both took place in colour

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Embed from Getty Images One of the best things about subscribing to the London Review of Books is that it grants you access to the magazine...
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Sunday, June 01, 2025

Strange tales from the Bewdley plotlands

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"Bewdley is, perhaps, the crown jewel of the plotlands movement - it’s one of the biggest UK sites, home to roughly 163 households,...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Raymond Lefèvre and his Orchestra: Soul Coaxing

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It's summer in the late Sixties and you're out for the day on a coach or in a car with plastic seats that children have to peel them...
Monday, December 23, 2024

The Joy of Six 1303

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"The safety net once provided by the social security system and council services has been outsourced to a patchwork of grassroots group...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

In which Jeremy Thorpe, John Pardoe and Paul Tyler tour selected resorts of Cornwall and Devon by Hovercraft

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The summer of 1974 was enlivened by Jeremy Thorpe and other Liberal MPs touring the beaches of Britain by hovercraft, in anticipation of a g...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Lord Bonkers' Diary: In case they get peckish during Lent

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Jonathan Meades says beaver tastes "like spaniel dipped in cod liver oil", so I don't see selling off the whole colony to a fi...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

The Joy of Six 1229

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"Over the past decade the Conservative Party has taken millions of pounds from individuals and businesses with ties to Russia. Just thi...
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Friday, April 26, 2024

The 1931 floods and the history of Winchelsea Beach

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This is an interesting little video. Winchelsea Beach, where we had a family caravan holiday when I was seven, is a small resort that has de...
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Monday, August 07, 2023

Jonathan Meades at The Crooked House, Dudley

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A sad news story over the weekend was the fire that has gutted 'Britain's wonkiest pub', The Crooked House at Himley, near Dudle...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

The Joy of Six 1137

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"There was never any reason to suppose Johnson could be a successful prime minister. Nothing in his record suggested he was fit for the...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Cadbury's Dairy Milk and the supersonic Seventies

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As I remember it, this is where the Seventies began. There were no more flower children or village green preservation societies: we had land...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Joy of Six 1132

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Robert Hutton has been to the National Conservatism Conference: "The country is in a terrible mess, and Rees-Mogg is just trying to fi...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

The Joy of Six 1054

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Jonathan Meades reviews Tina Brown's book on the royal family: "They are out of their depth. The prurient, hypocritical red-top me...
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Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Joy of Six 1047

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The government's declared policy of "levelling up" has done nothing for inequality, argues  Zubaida Haque : "Not only is ...
Monday, April 18, 2022

The Joy of Six 1046

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Ukrainian victims of Russian war crimes should not be deployed as a human shield to keep a discredited Boris Johnson in Downing Street, says...