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Month: September 2016
Rex features anew
It is twenty years since British cinema celebrated its centenary and for all the advances of those first hundred years, the rate of change since has been no less marked. Celluloid film prints have all but disappearedw to be replaced by the Digital Cinema Package, a hard drive containing all the necessary files to show Read More…
Askers: do you want to know a secret?
From chic stopover for the well heeled motoring grand tourists of the 1930s, to a key destination for ravers, Askers Roadhouse Hotel had led a chequered career by the time it was consumed by fire soon after an infamous 29-hour rave in the early 1990s. But its greatest claim to fame – a visit by Read More…
The train not at Platform 1
Fifty years since the final passenger train ran through it and sixty years since the last one stopped, Spetisbury station has gradually re-emerged from a tangle of brambles, nettles, rubble and weeds half a century thick. That which Dr Beeching had deemed surplus to British Rail’s requirements was gladly welcomed back to Nature and so Read More…