Tag Archives for " gricing "

May 25

#1007. Desperate Times (documenting the last of the steam giants)

Author Mike Peart is something of a luminary in railway preservation in the UK. Back at a time when British Railways was making the owners of England’s scrapyards wealthy, he (and four friends) founded the Great Western Society to preserve some of the railway history that was being swept away with such indecent haste. That […]

Apr 14

#215. Almost reality check

By Paul Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography

Ian Hislop, long-time editor of Private Eye magazine and regular TV personality, was interviewed on the radio while I was in London last week. He was promoting a new TV series which sets out to examine our oft-stated preferences for the past and to dispel some of the myths our remembrances construct. Anyone old enough […]