My biking days
IT MUST be 40 years since I last rode a bicycle, a decade after my previous excursion on one, and it was a scary experience. In the interim, traffic had increased considerably, seemed to be driving at Formula One speed, and kept forcing me into the gutter by passing within a few inches of my right elbow.
Harbour plan that came to nothing
20 August 2010 18:10
ALTHOUGH the Norwich southern bypass has been in use for no more than a few decades, it has been of incalculable benefit to drivers heading between Great Yarmouth and the Midlands and north of England..
An hour of radio local history
13 August 2010 12:55
EVEN if you have never switched on your wireless since Terry Wogan retired from Radio 2 last year - or, perhaps, have not listened in since In Town Tonight, Workers' Playtime, Variety Bandbox and ITMA went off the air - please make a point of tuning in on Monday morning for a delicious taste of Norfolk nostalgia..
Tragedy on home front
06 August 2010 11:14
SIXTY-FIVE years after the second world war ended, it continues to occupy the minds and long memories of many of the older generation who lived through those ghastly times..
Prophecy was spot on
29 July 2010 18:07
NO crystal ball was peered into, no mystic consulted, but my 2006 prophecy has proved satisfyingly spot-on. “Should there ever be another HMS Norfolk or Yarmouth visiting here, she might well be able to tie up in the new outer harbour,” I wrote..
Read all about it in the Scroby Times
22 July 2010 15:10
ALTHOUGH I am no fan of electricity-generating wind turbines - they seem an inefficient, expensive and extravagantly subsidised form of power production - I have grown to like the 30 sprouting from Scroby Sands..
15 July 2010 Dipping a toe into pool memories
08 July 2010 Post-war restoration
01 July 2010 News from past with eye on present
24 June 2010 Home was never the same after 1953
22 June 2010 Former Yarmouth youth mayor's memories
10 June 2010 All this and Danny La Rue
03 June 2010 Time to recall VE Day
27 May 2010 No wind-up, this is on record
20 May 2010 Big catches and some near misses
13 May 2010 Plenty of fight in war of words
06 May 2010 Happy days of our A-list stars
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