Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
26 Jul 1958
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3168084.3
Summary
Newspaper cutting with 'TIMES 26 JULY, 1958.' handwritten in top left corner of page '7' with the article 'SEEING ENGLAND BY CANAL From a Special Correspondent At the railyway station parents queue, children dangle, luggage is lost in enormous quantities. Gadarene swine of all descriptions charge down the coast roads into the sea. There is hardly room to put your hat down on the beach. Abroad, landed across the Channel, the cars scatter like whiffs of grape shot, raking the long straight roads of France....'. On the other side page '8' the 'COURT CIRCULAR BUCKINGHAM PALACE, July 25 The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Mertyr Tydfil thi smorning and was recived at Treharris Railway Station by Major Cennydd Traherne (Her Majesty's Lieutenant for Glamorgan-shire) and the Mayor (Councillor T. J. Lloyd).'. Kept in the book 'The inland waterways of England' by Lionel Thomas Caswel Rolt (1910-1974) (record 3168084).