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1953 SCOOP Ah – them were the days! I bought my copy of Scoop at Hurleys, a wonderful but now extinct little department store half way between Balham and Tooting Bec. Just look at that box lid! Remini

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

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

1. For the McLaren F1 owner’s manual, Gordon Murray told me to deliver something that was significantly better than our competitors’. Nobody reads owners’ manuals and I wanted to change that to reflec

How we all became stuck on one of the original loyalty schemes

One-track mind: Thomas the Tank Engine and Percy ...