What caused all the carnage?
At this time, we are looking back a hundred years, to regard the horror and carnage of a war which took the lives of twenty million victims, and attempting to analyse the first basic cause which creat ...
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Whatever happened to Boarding Houses?
When I was younger they were all around – Dictionary definition: “Lodging House where meals may be had”. What has prompted me to ask this question? July’s Mature Times despairi ...
My most enjoyed childhood book
Was and still is, The Secret Garden by Frances E Hodgson Burnett, who was born in Cheetah Hill, Manchester, November 24th 1849, and passed away October 29th 1924. Some of her other well known books ar ...
EU & keeping the peace
Dear Sir, D.Day, (letters July 2014) when French civilian deaths exceeded the total of both sides combined, was strongly remembered as proving beyond doubt the need for a European Union to preserve th ...