Patrick George Callaghan

Well, it was that time of year once again for the Linslade Canal Festival in Bedfordshire on Saturday, attended by thousands, it's an attraction that covers a huge area in addition to the canal festivities, with a fun fair, hundreds of side stalls, live entertainment and all set around a giant lake. Pictured above are some of the hundreds of highly decorated narrow boats including 'The Cheese Boat'

These are Brighton Sussex UK Promettes of 1952. The Visitor Information Centre of its time. For those men amongst you that like girls with brains there was no better place than Brighton, Sussex, England in the 50s! Formed from ex-models, these girls would offer all types of advice for your holiday stay in Brighton… But no dating though chaps!

She sat within the glow of the coals, their red heat penetrated the pores of her skin and warmed the white of her bones. She stared long and hard into the glass of whisky as if it were full of a thousand nettles, and finding no reason to swallow the liquid her mind moved over matters best with the gradient carefulness of an undertaker’s assistant…  A deleted scene from ‘The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp’ by Patrick George Callaghan.

Serialized by Patrick George Callaghan                                               Part One The easterly wind that hurried in on that spring morning of 1921 still had the taste of winter on its breath. It was a further reminder that Mill Hill had yet to be woken by the warm golden hues of an English summer. Single shafts of faint cool sunlight daggered pointlessly across the grey-green landscape as the three girls walked cautiously, and with some purpose, in the direction of the old convent that rested majestically between the tall rows of elderly Beech trees. They had kept a watchful eye for anyone who might know them. There seemed little point in circling the fields. Those meadows of long winter grasses curtained high and dark woods, thick and frightening, and somehow were quite beyond the line of perfect reason, and anyway the road was quiet enough, aside from a trundling omnibus, empty of its passengers, and an unobservant bike-straddled butcher’s boy. When s

I think one of most bizarre, yet compelling dramas I’ve ever watched and completly enjoyed is A Canterbury Tale made in 1944 by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It tells a reworked story of Chaucer’s 14th century tale set in Kent, and portrays three young people who make a modern day pilgrimage to Canterbury for blessings. Within this plot is the local squire, who for some strange reasoning does not like soldiers and girlfriends getting together and pours glue over the village girls hair at night! Filmed at Denham and around Canterbury it is never-the-less a charming wartime movie that features the talents of Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and newcomer Sergeant John Sweet (U.S ARMY)

  Baroness Emma Orczy She was a British novelist and playright of Hungarian noble origin. Famous for her books that portrayed her character of The Scarlet Pimpernel. A prolific writer, along with her husband, right up until her death in 1947.