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18 October 2024

England

These articles and blogs all have a connection to England.

  • Barbara Windsor, actress.

    I must have been about 16 or 17 years old when I met Barbara Windsor very briefly outside a bank in Portsmouth, England.

  • Barnsbury.

    Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington.

  • Catcott.

    Catcott is a rural village and civil parish situated close to Edington, 7 miles to the east of Bridgwater on the Somerset Levels to the north of the Polden Hills in Somerset, England.

  • Charlie George, footballer.

    My good friend Derek Almond took me to the Emirates Stadium to do a celebrity-guided tour in 2014. Our tour guide was Charlie George, an Arsenal legend.

  • Chris Eubank, boxer.

    I met Chris Eubank in Brighton when I was there for a friend's stag party. 

  • Christmas 2013

    I got up this morning to discover I can't remember where the Christmas cards I had for my family had been secreted away. I bought them earlier in the year and put them away where prying eyes & little hands couldn't find them. The trouble is my normally perfect memory can't

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  • Compton Martin.

    Compton Martin is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset and in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority in England.

  • Dad's Ghost Message

    My dad, Brian Llewelyn Morris, died in Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, Hampshire, England, in February 2005. He had been admitted to the hospital on my birthday in January of the same year.

  • Dave Courtney, criminal.

    The first time I met Dave Courtney was in a pub in Barkingside called The Chequers. At that time I had never heard of him but I have since read his books & been told who he is. 

  • David O'Leary, footballer.

    I have always been an Arsenal fan, and when I was a kid I did go to Highbury with my dad to see a lot of matches. I met David O´Leary, however, at Heathrow airport.

  • Doris Daniels Ghost

    I have no memory of these stories other than what has been told to me by my parents, but I did have a major role in them. They involve me as a baby, & my grandmother, Doris Daniels, who had passed away sixteen days before I was born.

  • Epping.

    Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. Part of the metropolitan and urban area of London, it is 17 miles north-east of Charing Cross. It is surrounded by the northern end of Epping Forest and is on a ridge of land between the River Roding and

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  • Fareham to Lima.

    Today, I flew from Heathrow in London to Lima in Peru via Madrid in Spain with Iberia Airlines. Getting to the airport was easy. Tony, a friend of mine, took me to Heathrow & because of a clear run, we were there an hour before we needed to be.

  • Gas metre installed in wrong home.

    I was talking to a friend this week about jobs we have done previously, and I was reminded of this story when I fitted a gas meter in the wrong house in the 1980s.

  • Hospital Ghost

    This ghost story is a short story but has stuck in my mind and I remember what happened vividly. It happened during a hospital stay when I lived in Fareham, Hampshire, England.

  • Les Wallace, dart player.

    In 1997 Les Wallace became the first left-handed dart player to win the World Dart Championship. I have met Les a couple of times since then.

  • Noel Blake, footballer.

    Noel Blake, a Jamaican-born football player, at one time or another played for Aston Villa, Shrewsbury Town, Birmingham City, Portsmouth, Leeds United, Stoke City, Bradford City, Exeter City and Dundee.

  • Old Ford

    Old Ford is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that is named after the natural ford, which provided a crossing of the River Lea.

  • Out of Body Experience.

    I remember everything about the time leading up to this event, during this event and after with absolute clarity. I do not doubt that this happened as I describe it here.

  • Panic Attack

    In 1996, I left the UK and lived in Orlando, Florida. I had left the employment of British Gas, taking a redundancy package that would help me live in America. This story is about what happened on my flight to Florida.

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