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Our contributor John Barr has vivid memories of the winter of 1953, when he was caught up in the disastrous East Coast floods. Sixty-five years on, he looks back at those dramatic days, recalls how he survived, and reflects on the lessons he learned.  There was no forewarning of the trauma to come when, as […]

Britain’s worst Tube disaster was at London’s Bethnal Green station in 1943, when 173 people died. But it remained a secret; the story was hushed up at the time in order to keep up wartime morale. Our contributor Sandra Brind’s grandmother and cousin died in the incident; her mother and aunt were among the survivors. […]

I’ve been lucky enough to travel much of the world, but one place that always feels like home is Wicken Fen. If you don’t know of it, it is a patch of Cambridgeshire countryside that has been allowed to return to the state it was in before the Fens were drained. As a result, it […]

We don’t usually blow our own trumpet, but we are thrilled to announce the publication – as an e-book on Amazon – of “Press Trip”, by Robin Mead. It’s a lengthy tome, and combines autobiography and Fleet Street memories with an extensive travelogue. You’ll meet plenty of larger-than-life characters on its pages; in fact, if […]