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THE TOPOGRAPHER'S ARMS JOURNAL
Online Radical Stroud, for 2020's Social Distancing Comrades and Dreamers
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Apr 175 min read
Rev Awdry 80th Anniversary
Rev W. Awdry 1911-97 (Jottings made from a reading of The Thomas the Tank Engine Man Brian Sibley The Story of the Reverend W. Awdry and...
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Apr 152 min read
Ringo and the Rev in Rodborough
Ringo and the Rev Song to be sung roughly to the tune of Octopus’ Garden It's strange but true In Rodborough Avenue A big car arrived...
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Apr 147 min read
The Style of the Rev Awdry books
What is about the Style of the Awdry Books? Here is Brian Sibley in his biography The Thomas the Tank Engine Man : ‘So what is the...
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Apr 132 min read
Sir Topham Hatt (aka The Fat Controller)
Sir Topham Hatt (aka The Fat Controller) Apparently, Master T. Hatt started his railway career in 1894 at the GWR Works in Swindon as an...
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Apr 121 min read
Morris and Awdry
The Reverend Awdry and Desert Island Discs and the Johnny Morris Recording The Rev appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1964 in ‘The...
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Apr 1114 min read
The Rev Awdry Books Revisited
The Books As I said before, I didn’t come across any of the series until I read the Ladybird books to my children at bedtime. I have,...
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Apr 108 min read
Memories of the Rev Awdry
Memories of the Reverend Awdry A Lifetime in Rodborough Avenue Oliver Wicks 1999 LOVELL (earlier Devonia – later Sodor) The author (who...
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Apr 910 min read
Thomas the Tank Engine and co Social Context
Thomas the Tank Engine Social Context Ye Prologue My childhood - and that of my older sister and brother - roughly straddles that of the...
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Jan 225 min read
People's History Chapter 5
A MISCELLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Five Now to the subject of...
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Dec 22, 20242 min read
DIY Christmas Truce
DIY Christmas Truce Christmas tree(s) or something similar go up on the German line. “Do you like our tree(s), Tommy?” “Merry...
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Dec 18, 20241 min read
It came upon a Midnight clear
It came upon a midnight clear That glorious song of old, When angels bent down to the earth, And changed machine guns into harps, ...
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Dec 10, 20243 min read
A People's Local History chapter 4
A MISCELLLANY OF HISTORY A TEXTUAL WEAVING OF A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES A TEXTUAL SAMPLER Chapter Four A few short years after our...
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Nov 18, 20244 min read
Take a Walk in my Boots
Take a Walk in my Boots Stroud Walking Football Club (SWFC) History doesn’t have to be about the great and the famous and the...
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Jan 15, 202410 min read
Trains and Football
Football Specials There was, of course, a close association Between late Victorian railways And the formation of football clubs:...
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Jan 12, 20245 min read
Swindon's GWR Heritage
Heritage ADVERTISEMENTHeritageWhat is ‘Heritage’? We all sort of know what heritage means, Don’t we, in a way … Something handed down...
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Jan 12, 20242 min read
Women's Work and the GWR
An A to Z of Women’s Work in the Past in the GWR in Peace and War A is for acetylene cutter and assembler and dismantler of automatic...
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Jan 12, 20244 min read
Titus Okere
Titus Okere 1929-2023 Titus Okere, Once captain of Lagos Railways FC, Made history in 1953, When he signed for the Railwaymen Of Swindon...
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Jan 10, 20246 min read
Randwick
We thank the Stroud District (Cowle) Museum Service for giving us permission to make transcripts of the two documents that follow....
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Jan 8, 202410 min read
34 Faringdon Road
34 Faringdon Road Stand in the kitchen and imagine this isn’t a kitchen but an open back yard. That’s how it was when this cottage was...
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