Down memory lane, September 1 2017
They had to knock the bread to get rid of all the weevils in it.
They had to knock the bread to get rid of all the weevils in it.
In the photograph sent in, from her ipad, by Dr Ian MacPhail’s wife Isobel,95, there are some members of the medical profession who attended that 1979 party.
It was very unusual to go to such lengths when a harbour master retired.
‘We can’t even leave prams at the bottom of the stairs, as the cats do the toilet in them.’
‘Imagine having to leave the beautiful Southend scene described in the article, and his own farm here at Polliwlline, for that horror.’
‘My dad and most of the men were marched across France and Germany to Poland where he spent the war in a prisoner of war camp Stalag 21B.’
She had inherited the cherished hammer, still engraved with his name, and now keeps it in her coal cellar.
A look back at the Courier’s archives from ten, 25, 50 and 100 years ago.