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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: April 2015
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Hornby ‘O’ Gauge. Tasker Dunham reconstructs his clockwork train set. Yet, at the time, I thought. Web sites give more detailed histories. I could be wrong, but I think because the Hornby sets were metal, they made an electrical connection between the two main rails of the ...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: In praise of bicycles
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Monday, 18 May 2015. In praise of bicycles. 8220;Can I look? 8220;Would you recognize him if you saw him? 8221; she asked. I didn’t know what ‘recognize’ meant. Skipwith and Selby always seemed much further away on the way home. Around half-way back was a playground in a grassy field, which alw...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: Heathkit AD-27
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Monday, 15 June 2015. A 1960s quest to play music in stereo leads to the purchase of a Heathkit hi-fi. And later through the nineteen sixties pop explosion I recorded hours of LPs and singles on my reel-to-reel tape recorder. My first LPs were all monophonic: ‘The Hits of the Animals’ (...Because I...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: The Exorcist
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Monday, 17 August 2015. When my son was about eight, he asked what was the scariest film I had ever seen. 8220;Well,” I said, “there are quite a few, but one of them is so scary that even its name is too terrifying to say.”. 8220;Excalibur” he said without hesitation, trying to guess. This continue...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: Vulgar Money Bags
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Wednesday, 15 July 2015. 8221; he said jubilantly, breaking the verbal silence, “Nineteen-eighteen Kings Norton.”. I had no idea what he meant. 8220;That’s two this week. I got a nineteen-o-two low tide yesterday.”. I owned up to not having a clue what he was talking about. The “Sir” wa...Things we...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: March 2015
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Looking at the bustling supermarket and car park that now occupies that site you would never know a church had once been there, or imagine the happy community it supported through not only worship and other religious activities, but also coach excursions, children’s gr...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: May 2015
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Monday, 18 May 2015. In praise of bicycles. 8220;Can I look? 8220;Would you recognize him if you saw him? 8221; she asked. I didn’t know what ‘recognize’ meant. Skipwith and Selby always seemed much further away on the way home. Around half-way back was a playground in a grassy field, which alw...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: June 2015
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Sunday, 28 June 2015. My mother used to say Uncle Jimmy should have been brought up a girl and his sister a boy. When I was a bit older she added “You see, he didn’t develop properly when he was growing up.”. 8217; Morris on an outing to Bridlington in 1928. Monday, 15 June 2015. 8220;I’d nev...
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories: Philately will get you nowhere (unless you’re Dennis J. Hanson)
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Tasker Dunham’s Yorkshire Memories. Memories of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s and later. Some readers might recognise locations, but if you think you recognise individuals you are probably wrong. Thursday, 26 March 2015. Philately will get you nowhere (unless you’re Dennis J. Hanson). The ads were irresistible:. ALL FREE OVER 200. THE FAMOUS PENNY BLACK. Just ask to see our New. Approvals. (Please tell your parents.). This famous BLACK SWAN plus. 213 stamps all FREE! The 213 are all DIFFERE...
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