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Conwy! I took the guided tour of the castle one of the several times I visited the town. This was back when HF Holidays still had a country house hotel there. HF eventually sold that hotel because most of their clients are walkers, and...

Bamburgh is iconic and wonderful to visit but for me it is Ford Castle in Northumberland because we had a field trip from school whilst in the sixth form and stayed in the Castle . We learned to play croquet , never ever played since ...

"Influential BBC Radio one DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song, from 1978 until his death in 2004. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the...

I was Phil Collins drum sticks

I WAS THERE !!!!!.......sitting in the stands on the left hand side near the stage....Queen were unbelievable......BUT......U2 playing "Bad" was the absolute pinnacle of the whole Wembley show in my [and many others who were there]...

Mention of church bells can't help but make me remember the Time on my Hands episode when the paratrooper is caught on the church clock and Mainwairing's , Jones and Fraser's hat are used to silence the bell to their detriment.

I did bell ringing many years ago, worked my way up to pulling the 1 ton bell

I love the sound of the bells. One of the many times that I stayed in Huddersfield, I was crossing a street just below the parish church when a bell rehearsal began. Fortunately, I had reached the pedestrian island, as the sound stopped...

This was a good quiz, you should do more of these.

Cats can be so clever.........

Perhaps the cleverest cast ever.

Has anyone visited this location? Years ago, in the Navy, I worked for endless hours over a navigation product called a Dead Reckoning Table (DRT). It was a huge(ish), intricate glass-and-wood table - practically a work of art. They...

The Newcastle City Guide's walks sound wonderful!

I feel as disadvantaged as your good self Marianna Newcastle Airport has limited destinations when compared to Manchester and even Edinburgh . It offers basically Southern Spain [inc the Canaries] , Turkey , Dubai with the odd flights...