Very enlightening/ exciting headlines today re Marks and Spencer and Tesco who both experienced bumper sales this Christmas.

The cavalier approach to policing is so amateur that it begs the question: Do they have to be so stupid just to allow the plot a sporting chance to work at all? The sketch of the Locks Inn shows a female figure emerging from the door carrying a tray – this is presumably the then landlady, Susan Ellis, and the card itself was sent by Susan to The Townsend Family with good wishes for Christmas. A closer inspection led him to identify it as being ‘America’, modified for ocean sailing with a reduced sail size and a mizzen mast added aft.If the enemy had made it through the coastal defences then the towns and villages were the next line of defence, with major roads, rail lines and rivers being the obvious route of attack.

Fourteen days of unfettered freedom on a floating home, in surroundings entirely different and better compared with other holidays. I was recruited by Robert (Nobby) Clarke and was given good junior managerial experience at a very young age which led to me eventually managing a good sized wholesale company and then starting my own business, much thanks to Roys and their support of young workers. If I eventually get access to an A3 scanner, I will re-do the entire scrapbook, but I wanted to get this published in the best way I could manage for now as it deserves a wider audience.Thousands of troops were moved to East Anglia during those early years of the war and they all needed accommodation.