July2011

Everything stops for tea – Tip Top Tearooms
My Dad’s Army – John Wade investigates his father’s army service in Africa.
The English is coming... – Steve Windsor’s quest to find his local vineyard.
Good times and friends made – Readers’ ATC memories
Good food news – 100 years of stilton, Hampshire Food Festival, Tommy White’s restaurant, Protected Designation of Origin/Protected geographical indication.
Treasures in the Attic – everyday items from our past.
Praying for rain – Martin Johnson recalls the great drought of 1976.
Countryman’s calendar – Richard Taylor pursues the flora and fauna of high summer.
Horsing around – As Maurice Leonard reports, delivering bread was never quite the same when the horse retired.
In conversation with... a stately home owner.
Postcard from... Brighton.
Trams, buses and blackshirts – Bob Aldridge remembers his father’s varied career in transport.
Supermarket Sweep – Geoff Simpson recalls the lost names of the High Street.
Getting online - Tim Wakeling looks at safe shopping on line.
Times gone by – Neil Patrick visits Cambridge.
Snap Happy – a visit to the seaside.
Forties Post – Letters from a boy soldier, National Service memories.
Sounds Then – The sounds of summer.
A Manchester Model T – John Hancock discovers a British old favourite, still working and running well after nearly 100 years.
War and Peace – Great Central Railway’s 40’s weekend.
Tales of ‘daring do’ – Terry Fulton remembers the Boy’s Own Paper.
This sporting life – Steve Windsor warms up.
Film star favourites – Michael Gough.
Do you remember – Steve Conway.
The way it was – The Abbey Match Works.
Secret ambassadors of sound – John Adams remembers the budget record label Embassy.
Card collectables – Famous faces of film.
Window on the past – blue lips, blue legs and boys... (outdoor swimming pools).