Fifty Years
Ago
Reunited
with their families were a young couple from Cornwall who had left
their respective homes in the early hours of Sunday with the
intention of eloping to Gretna. However, two days of train delays and
missed rail connections soon turned high spirits into frustration,
recrimination and anger. Finally, engineering works on the line at
Didcot caused the unnamed pair to re-think their future. On reaching
Birmingham, they travelled home, in separate carriages.
Sixty Years
Ago
It was
reported that Government boffins working in Wiltshire had achieved an
extraordinary breakthrough that could profoundly alter our
understanding of the laws of physics. Pending the outcome of talks at
the highest level, no further details could be supplied at the time
of writing.
One Hundred
Years Ago
Archaeologists
in Wiltshire were forced to abandon work on a site near Salisbury
when excavations of three barrows and an underlying henge failed to
yield the hoped-for signs of treasure trove. Blaming grave robbers
for the absence of precious finds, team leader Fortinbrass Hudspole
declared the site null and void, ordering that it be ploughed over
and re-instated as farmland.
Fascinating as ever, and if I might make so bold, I can add a little here. There is an old Saxon word, "Hengemoan" which refers to the disappointment experienced by grave robbers who arrived second.
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