Category: HISTORY
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By HILARY GAVIN BUTCH CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid. If I’m being honest I miss the old Wild West outlaw telly shows that formed the cultural backdrop to my teenage years growing up in the Seventies. Most youngsters my age were glued to the screens at home every week back then as we watched the…
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By HILARY GAVIN IF YOU’VE been following my Facebook vlogs on social media you’ll understand why it’s been some time since I last updated my WordPress blog – I’ve been too busy at my caravan holiday let. I believe it was the American comedian and actor W.C. Fields who coined the phrase “Never work with…
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By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 15 minutes of fame – Wikipedia I SUSPECT everyone of us living in Britain today – excluding those who pride themselves on being total philistines – has heard the late New York artist Andy Warhol’s famous quote: “Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes“. Well, folks, it appears I had my…
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By HILARY GAVIN ONCE again I’m a day behind with my self-imposed schedule posting my weekly local commentary Facebook round-up page. In truth, I was too tired, grouchy and upset yesterday to think clearly and rationally so I had to rest up. Thankfully, I slept well and I woke up this morning thinking about the…
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By HILARY GAVIN IF THERE is one scene that sums up the central message of the 1980s’ movie Educating Rita, it is – for me – when the titular character Rita, a working-class Open University student, can’t open the door to her university tutor’s study. It’s been many years since I last watched the film…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M NOT sure when I last posted my Facebook news round-up but it must have been almost two weeks ago now so I’m quickly dashing one off today. As you’ve probably seen I’ve been covering the two parish councils I write articles on for this WordPress blog – namely Hunston and Sidlesham…
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STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT – drinking with two Americans we met in a bar on a stopover in Amsterdam en route to Berlin 1984 By HILARY GAVIN SO Easter came and went and it’s almost a fortnight now since I posted my last Facebook round-up on my WordPress blog. Much of my past two weeks…
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By HILARY GAVIN I CAN HARDLY believe another week has flown by and I’m sharing my regular Facebook news round-up with you again. Of course, you can either click through to my Facebook posts below or visit my Hilary Gavin’s Local Reporting Commentary page on Meta where you can easily scroll through them in one…
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 By HILARY GAVIN THIS is simply a brief WordPress blog to introduce you to my Facebook commentary site as there’s a break in the weather and I’m keen to get outside in my back garden. As you can see I’ve posted a link to this Facebook page beneath the screengrab of it so you…