The Oldie

Just occasionally new technology blends in perfectly with community spirit to create a great new concept.  That’s how Parkrun was ...
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What is the most disgusting thing you did today? The most likely answer is that you wiped your bum with ...
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Early Victorian Excursions, the million go forth, by Susan Major Pen & I love books that debunk myths. Just as ...
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The English Railway Station Steve Parissien English Heritage £25 Railway books tend to fall into two categories: those that provide ...
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A hybrid bill is a Parliamentary procedure to pass legislation that affects both private and public matters. In other words, ...
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There are lots of choices to make before taking the Transsiberian, the world’s longest railway which stretches 5750 miles between ...
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It all started with a text message, as many things do these days. During the last London mayoral election in ...
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Charles Loft, Last Trains, Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England, Biteback Publishing, £20; Richard Faulkner and Chris Austin, ...
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BBC DVD 180 mins, three 60 minute films  £19 99 (£7 from bbc shop online) It’s not leaves on the ...
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If you live in London, a little bit of Soviet Russia will be coming down your way during next year’s ...
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Frank Binder, Sown with Corn, Farthings Publishing, £12 99, 412 pages Christian Wolmar We all know the story of Hitler’s ...
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Porthmadog on the North Wales Coast is about to achieve a world first, having no fewer than three narrow gauge ...
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Michael Williams, On the Slow Train, twelve Great British railway journeys, Preface Publishing, £14 99. Britain’s love affair with the ...
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Matthew Engel, Eleven minutes late, Macmillan, £14 99, 324pp Matthew Engel is in despair. But it's his fault. The former ...
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Underground, a two set DVD, Yesterday’s Britain’s No 41, Beulah, £24 95. They used to build new Tube lines. Now ...
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Geoff Andrews, The Slow Food Story, Pluto Press, £14 99.   It all started with a bad meal in an ...
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Andrew Hosken, Ken, the Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone, Arcadia Books, £15 99, 435 pp. In losing the recent ...
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Many people already recognise that schools are too obsessed with testing and exams rather than education. But it is not ...
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I used to think that climate change would only affect my yet to be born grandchildren, so I didn’t bother ...
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Dow’s dictionary of railway quotations, compiled and edited by Andrew Dow, John Hopkins. ‘A common sheet of paper is enough ...
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