Phil Beard
Monday, 17 February 2025

Centurion Bar, Newcastle Station

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I first glimpsed this extraordinary interior about 10 years ago from the doorway.  Within was the intimidating spectacle of a vast darkened ...
Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Guinness Scrapbook 1937

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We like to think of embarrassment as a uniquely British thing but the concept is present in every known language. It’s especially prevalent ...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Castle Drogo

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The story begins with a marriage between two biscuit empires - Meredith & Drew, and Peek Freans.  Julius Drew was a descendant of both t...
Sunday, 5 January 2025

Great Railway Stations No. 22, York

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Many years ago Michael Palin pointed out the association between railway towns and footballing mediocrity. There are exceptions - Derby and ...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Bridge Postcards of 2024

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Another annual selection of pontine postcards - the products of hours of rummaging through bulging shoe boxes stuffed with unsorted postcard...
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Mostly water. Oxygen (65.0%) Carbon (18.5%) Hydrogen (9.5%) Nitrogen (3.2%) Calcium (1.5%) Phosphorus (1.0%) Potassium (0.4%) Sulphur (0.3%) Sodium (0.2% Chlorine (0.2%) Magnesium (0.1%) Iodine (0.1%) Iron (0.1%) Chromium (trace) Cobalt (trace) Copper (trace) Fluorine (trace) Manganese (trace) Molybdenum (trace) Selenium (trace) Tin (trace) Vanadium (trace) Zinc (trace)
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