OneGuyFromBarlick

Even if you get through it and it does get more boring towards the end there is always a feeling he is missing a lot out and not giving the full story about what GCHQ is up to in the world.

"Even if you get through it"
That is quite a remote possibility Ken!

News that when John Cornwell died he had another Le Carre book finished and ready for publication. It will be published this year.

I was passed a book the other day Burnley in WW1. Written nominally by Towneley Hall but with many other contributors. Only a small book with lots of pictures and memories. As always with these books I can only manage a few pages at any one time before I get angry and depressed.
I think the are on sale at Towneley Hall book shop.

I know what you mean by the effect of those early images Ken. I get a similar reaction to pre-1900 pics showing children. I immediately wonder what happened to them in the Great War. Here's an example.

Finished my Dan Brown fix. Some books are reasonable but some are incredibly badly edited.
I have an oldie next, 'The Railway Book' an anthology edited by Stuart Legg and published in 1952.

I shall give the Dan Brown books back to the lady in the bookshop, she can sell them again.

I recycled the Dan Browns and got a Bryson I haven't read; "Notes from a large country' which are articles he wrote after he went back to live in the US.

Nearly finished the Bryson. A boo caught my eye in the Square, 'The Massacre at Montsegur. The history of the Albigensian Crusade.' How could one resist!

In the Thick of It. The private diaries of a Minister. (Sir) Alan Duncan. Very hard hitting towards his fellow MPs. Very hardworking MP and Minister but does a lot of name dropping very much a conservative Conservative but strongly Anti-Brexit. A traditionalist that likes to use the 'rules' to make his case but objects if others do the same to him.
Interesting read. Expensive at £25 but free from the Library. 545 pages plus illustrations.

I finished Bryson and am dealing with Private Eye at the moment......

Started with Plummer on Rats.

Stanley wrote: ↑30 Jun 2021, 03:42 Plummer on Rats.

Hope you like it. I found it oddly fascinating, and liked his sense of humour. Wouldn't want to live next door to him though. Thought of the look on Richard Whiteley's face throughout.

It is keeping my attention but I wonder if he has ever considered he might be wrong?

DISLOYAL a Memoir. The true story of the former personal Attorney to President Donald J Tump. by Michael Cohen. Sets out his life with Donald Trump gradually becoming his 'attack dog' and Mr Fixit. Exposes many of Trump's failings and the need to cover up and 'kill' any bad publicity during his candidacy for Presidency ultimately getting involved with the Stormy Daniels fiasco that led to his imprisonment. Its difficult to balance his total loyalty to Trump against the potential of financial gains for himself. No doubt he will become a star witness should Trump ever come to court.
Easy to read and adds to the complexity of Trump's business dealings inferring that he isn't a man to be trusted but does not offer a coup de grâce that one may expect.
368 pages + 60 appendix supplement. Cover price £22. Free from library.

I finished Plummer on rats but have yet to start on the Albigensian Crusade of 1209.....
I don't think I want any more information about Trump. The man makes me feel depressed. Sorry Ken, no reflection on your choice, just my personal reaction to such a sorry example of a human being.

The postman delivered a book I didn't order. Someone is being nice to me and knows my taste because it's a reprint of a book A G Street wrote just before I was born and later I read it cover to cover. It's all about the sort of farming I remember....
Do I detect the hand of Mr Trippier?

You do. . . .

I rediscovered it on my bookcase, and remembered that it was one of the first books I bought, rather than borrowed. I got it from the gift shop at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge soon after we arrived here. Those were the days - when you could drive there, and park outside within 100yds. Next to Hobson's Conduit - same guy who also had the 'choice'.
You can dip in anywhere, as it is chaptered in months. Interesting to read that his concerns then (1935), such as the expansion of the towns into the countryside, and of course the weather, are still of concern today. Climate crisis hadn't been invented then.

He knows of which he writes. Throughout - I thought 'SCG must see this'. Should have guessed you already had. Enjoy it again.

Thank You David, I will. I always did like him. If I remember rightly he was on the Home Service during the war regularly talking about farming. He had a lovely Burr to his voice.....

I started reading A G Street yesterday and found his voice was still in my memory banks. I could hear him speaking as I read what he wrote. Nice! Good memories.

Tried to sort out my tapes and Mini Discs this afternoon - failed.

However whilst trying, I came across My Days are Swifter than a Weaver's Shuttle by Richard Ryley. (1852), and had a dip in whilst surveying the shambles.

Nice to know a bit about nearly everything he wrote about Barlick. For example, Wm Bracewell, The New Ship, Ousel, Butts Mill, Crow Row, Forty Steps. Rev Milner etc etc etc.

Got me to thinking that Stanley picked a great, and probably unique place to launch into his new career. Just the right size, and just enough history to cope with. Wondered whether that was by accident or design.

It is said he died aged in 1864 at the age of just 43. is buried in Gill Church. Is the grave visible? If so, any chance of a photo Ian when you're next there?

I assume at that date his grave would be in the old part of the churchyard which is in a stepped area below the rest of the churchyard and very overgrown. I have never come across his grave in any other area of the CY that I frequent when laying the remembrance crosses each year. Even in the higher and later used areas of the CY many headstones have been laid down when they became unsafe. Would probably need to see the CY records to see if his plot was recorded.

"Got me to thinking that Stanley picked a great, and probably unique place to launch into his new career."
All places are unique David, trick is to limit the size so in a city, just one district.

PanBiker wrote: ↑22 Aug 2021, 21:51 many headstones have been laid down when they became unsafe

We've been frustrated by that when doing my family history. Even if you can get details from the church it would still be interesting to be able to see the gravestone itself.

There was a legend, never substantiated, that some of the flagstones at the back of the shed at Bancroft were recycled grave stones. It wouldn't surprise me because I I have been told by a man who makes and repairs old clocks that the brass foundations for the faces on some old clocks are recycled coffin plates.