‘wow, isn’t it small?’

Our annual summer camp for many of my East Kilbride Scouts in 1977 was a choice between an expensive long distance coach trip to Switzerland or a cheaper and fun district camp at Glentrool, just an ho

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Talking Pictures TV talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 82 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 A Hitch in Time (1978) (Saturday 2 August, 10.30am) Family. Director: Jan Darnley-Smith. Starring: Patrick Tr

Dear Simon, The history of Pitman shorthand told by Angeline Wilcox in the July edition of Best of British (Write on Time) evoked so many memories. I was amazed to learn that Isaac Pitman actually cre

Material from the BBC’s ‘golden age’ tends to be recalled through a heavily rose-tinted lens. Apart from Fawlty Towers, certain Monty Python skits and a few documentaries, I’m not sure it was all that

For Sarah, it was a night that would go down in history – for more reasons than one