Tag: Vintage Classics

The curtains go down and the audience applauds, the names forgotten but the laughter lasting, though Chick Byrd is determined to make his final night of a curtailed

London, 1955, a grey morning over Trafalgar Square as the pigeons gather, but by the time the markets of the East End are bustling the sun is fully

The mud fields of Passchendaele in western Belgium in late 1917, three years into the Great War, and twenty-three-year-old Private Arthur James Hamp, a former bootmaker from Islington

Motor Gun Boat 1087, proudly serving in the English Channel during the latter days of the Second World War the under the command of Bill Randall, a tight

Number 4 Albion Road, North West London, the boarding house of widow Helen Allistair, one of the few landladies who is willing to rent rooms to lone mothers

Born in September 1666, at the age of sixteen Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle became the wife of Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and later King George of Great

The proud ships of the Royal Navy sail calmly on blue seas under a blue sky, but bounced from ship to shore and post to post is Lieutenant

Philip Chance, novelist, has been obliged to leave his comfortable existence in the south of France for a meeting with his publisher who wishes his next project to

It’s an unlikely partnership brought about by happenstance, debt collector Harold Temple arriving at the pet shop owned by Major Arthur Hill over a default of £34, 7/8

It’s the perfect crime; the overnight express from Edinburgh to London, the first class carriage booked for the newlyweds backing onto the secure room where half a million