Age of the train – made in miniature In 1975, seven-year-old Alan Monk knew just what he wanted: a Hornby Great Western Railway freight set…lighting his life-long passion for model railways, as he told Elestr […]
Holidays IN THE CURRENT heatwave, my holiday, taken in early May, is a memory. I enjoyed going away and visiting interesting places. Two of them were cathedrals. As we were based in Norfolk, and stayed […]
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Picking up the thread TEXTILE ARTIST Kate Findlay vividly remembers the moment her passion for art was kindled: when her mum took her to London to see a Turner exhibition. “I remember looking at his […]
A Political-Religious Spat and its Solution I CONFESS THAT, as I write this column, I have been ‘enjoying’ the recent spat between the President of the United States and leader of the largest Christian denomination […]
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Touching Beauty WAITING FOR his wife on the steps of York Minster, John Nicholls noticed some new carving around the West Door and thought how wonderful it must be to work in stone. The opportunity […]
If you were a musical instrument, what instrument would you be? LAST WEEK I went with a friend to a concert at the Hexagon, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing pieces by Rossini, Dvorak and Rachmaninoff. […]
UNA ANN WATERS was known by many in Caversham as a teacher, neighbour and friend, and for her involvement in the world of folk music. She was born in Newport, South Wales, on 4 July […]
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Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)