Through The Ages, A Hero Remains

One character's name appears over and over in world literature.  Most readers and listeners of nursery rhymes, folktales and fairy tales...

Mileage Counter

We take them so much for granted really don't we? No, not the signpost, (increasing numbers of which are disappearing, at least in this ...

The Somme Tunnel at The Bog, Shropshire

The BBC's World War One At Home site suggests there is a mystery about the Somme Tunnel which, as the name suggests, was driven into the...

Leisure attraction bans single people "on child protection grounds"

Back in 2008 I blogged about a bizarre policy of Telford and Wrekin Council . As so often, I quoted the Shropshire Star: Council staff on th...

The failure of the political class and the appeal of Alan Johnson

I am not the greatest admirer of Alan Johnson - his appearances of This Week, where his highlight of the week is invariably an event that pr...

Little Letters - S

Cut the following for Little Letter S from dark A - three 1-1/4" x 4-1/2" strips B - two 1-1/2" x 1-3/8" almost square f...

George Butterworth: The lads in their hundreds

A.E. Housman published his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad in 1896 at his own expense after it was turned down by several publishers. As Wi...

Night Mail: Music and verse by Britten and Auden

The granddaddy of them all. Music by Benjamin Britten, verse (after Mr Cholmondley Warner has had his say) by W.H. Auden.

Harold Whitfield VC - an ironic death in Shropshire

One of my weekly pleasures is the Pictures in the Past selection on the Shropshire Star website. This Friday  one of the pictures had a cap...