Recent content by Madge Felton

With mushy peas, then spotted dick for afters! Or maybe that was a separate occasion? Poirot requested a cheese board and Japp presented him with a rather ripe looking wedge of cheddar!

Queen had been at a low ebb for a few years before they released the album The Works in 1984, which I think yielded 5 hit singles beginning with Radio Ga Ga. I saw them at Wembley Arena in September 1984 and it's still the best live music show I've ever seen. I wasn't even a massive fan at the...

Thanks. The mine ceased operation in 1985 when coal reserves were exhausted and opened as the museum 3 years later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caphouse_Colliery There were still some items of heavy plant abandoned at the coalface, as it wasn't cost effective to remove them to the...

I visited and did the underground tour here in 2008. It was very educational and the guide was a local retired coal miner. Conditions must have been very tough for those men who worked there during my lifetime, but they must have been absolutely hellish during the 18th and 19th centuries.