30 March 2012

Echo of Another Time

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The upright Ekco AD77 tabletop radio of 1936 was designed by Serge Chermayeff, one of the architects behin...
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26 March 2012

Aquatic Pushmi-pullyu

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Awaiting fit-out on the Montgomery Canal is this new trip boat. It is of a pushmi-pullyu design, enabling the hor...
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Backdraft

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Domestic hairdryers originate from the 1920s, but didn't take off until after WWII. This Ormond E1022 dates from the 1950s, and was made...
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23 March 2012

The Bridge

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Runcorn Bridge crosses the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, and links Runcorn and Widnes. Opened in 1961, it replaced the Wi...
22 March 2012

Not Much Room

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A fine patch of common Cortinarius . This is a very broad genus, found all over the world, and embracing over 2,000 speci...
19 March 2012

TV Times

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The LV20 was introduced by Pye in 1949, just three years after television broadcasts were re-commenced in Britain. A full nine inches of ...
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That's Livin' Alright

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Most manufacturers of steam rollers made living vans, designed to be towed behind the roller to site, and lived in until the j...
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18 March 2012

Wenlock Priory

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The priory at Much Wenlock has been founded twice over. It was originally founded in 680 by the Mercian king, Merewalh. Nepotism saw his ...
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10 March 2012

Gilt-edged

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Bush introduced the VHF61, with medium (MW), long (LW) and very high frequency (VHF) wavebands, in August 1956. It employs piano k...
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08 March 2012

Shropshire's Lake District

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The Mere at Ellesmere is the largest of nine glacial lakes in the area, and is one of the largest meres outside of the Lake District. The ...
04 March 2012

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: University of Lancaster, 1985.
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28 February 2012

Chirk Castle - Aged Oak

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There grewe an aged tree on the greene, A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, ...
25 February 2012

Bush Mechanics

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Based in London's Shepherds Bush for the first four years of the company’s life, Bush Radio was fo...
24 February 2012

Wrested Back from Nature

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Wrest Park, in Bedfordshire, is a secret garden on a monumental scale. The estate was home to the de Greys from the thirteenth ...
20 February 2012

Jukebox Jive

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Justus P. Sjöberg left Sweden for America, aged just 16, in 1887. In 1902 he formed J.P. Seeburg Co., an A...
16 February 2012

Hawarden, Flintshire

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William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister, was a voracious reader, and collected books from his childhood. Whilst at Ch...
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14 February 2012

An Ekco of Lost Style

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Ekco, E(ric) K(irkham) Cole Ltd, manufacturer of radio and television sets, was founded in 1926. Its Bakelite cabinets were pressed by AE...
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13 February 2012

Little Chef, the UK's Diner

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Little Chef was started in 1958 by Sam Alper, sculptor and printmaking enthusiast, viticulturalist, and, like Airstream's Wally By...
06 February 2012

Llyn Clywedog

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Clywedog Dam, high above Llanidloes, was built between 1964 and 1967 to regulate the flow of water in the upper reaches of the Riv...
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Bryntail Mine, Powys

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At the foot of Clywedog Dam are the remains of Bryntail mine, one of many in the area that started out with the winning of lea...
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