As many of us look to get fitter and healthier, our columnist recalls how we used to do it!

Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

Our columnist was fond of the days between Christmas and the new year for many reasons

WOULD you look at the man!” Maggie said. She wasn’t much to look at herself, being as black as sin from the coal dust. She’d just finished a shift at the colliery screens, picking lumps of coal out of

IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

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