Monday Memories – Adventures in Retailing
Reaching just 10% [market share] would produce a satisfactory return. Margins were good. Continue reading Monday Memories – Adventures in Retailing
Tag: Cleethorpes
Monday Memories – Another Election (or three)
The Thatcher government was returned with a marginally reduced majority in Parliament Continue reading Monday Memories – Another Election (or three)
Monday Memories – Twin Towns and Striking Miners
there was increasing polarisation between those on the right who believed the government had a duty to stand up to what they saw as too much power in the hands of the Unions, and those on the left who saw the government’s action as an attack on the working classes. Continue reading Monday Memories – Twin Towns and Striking Miners
Monday Memories – Changes at Work
My first, and only, televised public speaking engagement was at the 1984 Liberal Party Conference where I spoke about the indebtedness of developing countries and the need for some level of debt forgiveness. Continue reading Monday Memories – Changes at Work
Monday Memories – Campaigning Begins
The pattern of local elections in that part of the country at that time was as follows: in Grimsby one third of the councillors stood down in each of three successive years, in Cleethorpes the whole council was re-elected every four years as was the whole of the county council. Cleethorpes elections took place midway between county elections, which occurred on the year without a Grimsby council election. In case that’s difficult to follow: County Council elections took place in 1981, 1985 and 1989. Cleethorpes Borough Council elections in 1983 and 1987, Grimsby Borough Council elections occurred in 1982, 1983 … Continue reading Monday Memories – Campaigning Begins
Monday Memories – Political Baptism
As secretary, I found myself with a great deal of work recording the many meetings in which two groups of people with broadly similar aims about which they were passionate were nevertheless determined to ensure that their local demands were recognised. Continue reading Monday Memories – Political Baptism
Monday Memories – Into the Eighties #2
I learned about a small group of volunteers planning to start a talking newspaper for visually impaired people in the district and decided to offer my expertise gained with Coventry Community Broadcasting Service. Naturally they were in urgent need of funds so I volunteered to undertake a sponsored walk. Continue reading Monday Memories – Into the Eighties #2
The Beast from the East, February 1979.
I was to learn the meaning of the expression ‘white out’. The road, the sky, the field, were all white. Snow flakes swirled around the car. Continue reading The Beast from the East, February 1979.
Saturday Sound-off: Mixing Politics With Other Work
This recollection is provoked by the news that the MP for Tatton, George Osborne, has been appointed to edit the London Evening Standard whilst maintaining his seat in Parliament and his other highly lucrative, if part-time, jobs. In the 1980s I decided that, if I wanted to change the world, it was time to stop moaning and get involved in politics. I joined the Liberal Party and stood for election to the County Council. I didn’t make it at the first attempt but four years later – in May 1985 – I was successful. I became one of four Liberals … Continue reading Saturday Sound-off: Mixing Politics With Other Work
Coincidence: #atozchallenge
On Saturday I told how the family moved house in 1956 in order to live with my mother’s new partner. The house had previously been the home of the village’s Baptist Minister. It was one end of a block that was originally built to accommodate a small school and schoolmaster’s house as well. The school had long since merged with the village school and been converted into a home. For a number of years all three had been rented out to tenants but, when the tenant of the former manse left, the trustees decided to sell all three. The former … Continue reading Coincidence: #atozchallenge
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