Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Brightlingsea branch in 1963

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I think this is the sort of thing I used to post. Click on the image above to watch footage of the Wivenhoe to Brightlingsea branch in Essex...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Sorry for the silence on Liberal England

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Sorry for the uncharacteristic lack of posts here, but real life has overtaken Liberal England. My mother, who is 89 and once introduced her...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Merry Christmas to all our readers

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Highland Journey (1957)

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In this British Transport Films production we follow a coach tour from Edinburgh to the Highlands. As a site devoted to these films explain...

The boys from the NYPD choir

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On Saturday BBC4 showed  The Story of Fairytale of New York , in the course of it we learnt that there is no NYPD choir. This impressed me e...

Six of the Best 986

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"Seething in private is not enough when lives, jobs and sanity are at stake. MPs must reflect over the coming days on the tumultuous ev...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Bombsites in The Yellow Balloon (1953)

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I have written before about how in 1947's Ealing comedy Hue and Cry celebrated a damaged London belongs to errand boys and the film cel...
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Death of a teenybopper at the White City

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Embed from Getty Images Years ago, one of my favourite trivia questions was to ask which stadium used in the 1966 World Cup no longer exited...
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Leicester St Margaret's bus station closes on New Years' Eve for redevelopment

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Leicester's St Margaret’s bus station in Leicester will close at 7pm on 31 December to allow work to being on its £13.5m redevelopment. ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

A virtual tour of the Swindon railway village

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I spent a few days holiday in Swindon back in 2009 so I could visit the Richard Jefferies Museum at his birthplace at Coate.  That visit ha...

Peter Gabriel: Games Without Frontiers

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This was on Gabriel's third solo album, which was released in 1980 under the title Peter Gabriel. It made number 4 in the UK singles cha...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

A drone flight over the lead mines at Snailbeach

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This video was made by Philip. J. Jones for the Shropshire Mines Trust .

Six of the Best 985

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"After 40 years in politics I am convinced that Universal Basic Income is the only real solution to poverty. Politicians, who oppose UB...
Friday, December 18, 2020

The new Blue Pullman races through Market Harborough

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The High Speed Train - HST - is still to me the essence of modernity on the railways. It is reaching the end of its career, even on the negl...

GUEST POST The Brexit hustle

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A hustle, a medieval conflict... Stuart Whomsley offers new ways of understanding the powers behind Brexit. Brexit was always a hustle: it ...

Tory MP sacked as PPS after memo leaked to Guido Fawkes

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Andrew Lewer, the Conservative MP for Northampton South, has been sacked as parliamentary private secretary to policing minster Kit Malthous...
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New Lib Dem and Green vision for Nottingham's Broadmarsh

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For 50 years or more, visitors to Nottingham have been funnelled through a bus station and a shopping centre if they wish to get from the ra...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Imagine being derailed with Jacob Rees-Mogg

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Photo from Network Rail Jacob Rees-Mogg's public personality is as carefully constructed as that of any film star. So lazy satirists who...

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I welcome guest posts on Liberal England. This list of the 10 most recent is pretty concentrated on the Liberal Democrats, but I am happy ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Glamorganshire Canal in 1945

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Completed in 1794, the Glamorganshire Canal ran for 25 miles from Merthyr Tydfil to the sea at Cardiff Docks. At first it did well, but the...