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Until I started travelling in the Communist world, my main experience of living under tyranny was my time at a boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, 60 years ago. The headmaster, an enormous, booming man, had many fine qualities. But he was given to dreadful rages, which tended to strike late on Saturday afternoons. … Read more
Now that’s underground parking! Gardener is left stunned after digging up an ENTIRE 1950s Ford Popular car that had been buried underneath his lawn John Brayshaw discovered what appears to be a Ford Popular in his garden John was stunned by the find at his Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire home The vehicle dates back to the 1950s … Read more
Operation Enoch: How Czech spies tried to use Powell to infiltrate the Scout movement in the late 1950s Communist spies targeted Tory MP Enoch Powell to infiltrate Scout movement The Czechs were keen to infiltrate the youth movement in the late 1950s Agents claimed the Right-wing Tory MP had ‘sympathy’ for the Socialist Republic By Jake … Read more
It’s Paris – but probably not as you know it. These amazing vintage images, taken in the 1950s, show the streets of the French capital before they became packed with tourists waving selfie sticks and ‘influencers’ posing for Instagram. They were taken by photographer Allan Hailstone in the 1950s over the course of two short … Read more