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The Norman Conquest was illustrated in The Bayeux Tapestry
Lassie comes home I grew up in New York City
listening to my London-born father singing songs by Sir Harry Lauder. Many times I was lulled to sleep to the strains of I Love a Lassie. And I can’t count the cups of tea we consumed while I heard about Trafalgar Square, Rotten Row and the cities of Brighton and Birmingham. I learned the old English songs
from before the First World War as well as Land of Hope and Glory. During the First World War we had the record There'll Always be an England. Is it any wonder I became an Anglophile? One day I would love to show you my old haunts, he said. Well, I reached my 80th
birthday and my children helped me celebrate with a party. Gift wrapped was a tin of tea with a round-trip ticket all expenses paid to dear old London. I had my tea at Kensington Palace then made
On the hunt for Herriot
Each month I am transported into a treasure chest of delightful and interesting trips from my armchair in Canada as I read your magazine. In 2005, our family went to visit friends in Newmarket and then took a tour of Yorkshire, the only place our children really wanted to visit because of their enjoyment of the James Herriot shows introduced to them by their grandfather. T e November issue brought this all back to life, as well as our
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sure to see all the places so dear to my father’s heart – and then some! So Dad, your ‘lassie’ made it to
jolly olde England in the end, with tears in my eyes but a smile on my lips, loving every minute. Mrs Waldman, Pennsylvania, USA
The Norman
Conquests Reading in the last edition of the magazine about the Normans, it seems that England suffers a chronic complex of inferiority with respect to the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlers that populated the Island. As far as I know, England should
be proud of the Normans’ skills for the warfare (better weapons, the use of horses in the war), for the architecture and for their skills in the public administration... even though this meant the beginning of the bureaucracy and the ascension of a ruling class. Alberto Castellanos, Florida, USA
Britain goes dark Having had to cancel plans to
commence Midwifery training in Chester in the early 1970s, I still held onto the dream of visiting Britain. After renewing passports due to change of names and running out of date (fi ve collected in all), fi nally that dream came true. I had an amazing seven-week adventure of travelling practically the length and breadth of your fabulous country by train. I had a most surreal moment in
Canterbury when I had my fi rst experience of evening descending around 4pm, still with the normal daily activity going on around me in the dark! I stood there in the middle of the High Street absolutely mesmerized. I am now a subscriber and
relive my journey time and again through your magazine. Thank you for the memories. Christine Parrott, Geelong East, Victoria, Australia
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All Creatures Great and Small was filmed in North Yorkshire
visit to the Norfolk shores and the exercising of the horses. We are planning another trip soon – to the Highlands, we
hope. T ank you for a great read and inspiration! Susan Bowles, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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