Porchester Press

28/12/2024

Like sleeper agents biding their time

The boo-boys wait for the pantomime

The slap-stick errors and an old-time ditty

Don’t forget this is Manchester City

No time for the Dame, they’re after the Villain

Just like they went for the electric Bob Dylan

They choose not to clap like most of the others

Preferring to argue like the Gallagher brothers

26/12/2024

Many Notts folk are probably unaware of the Bessie Sheppard story.

Bessie Sheppard lived a hard life in perilous times. That short life was snatched from her by a vagrant ex-soldier called Charles Rotherham. The crime horrified the community. So much so that they raised a memorial stone at the spot where Rotherham battered Bessie to death. The year was 1817. As Simon Ford explains, Bessie's murder is the beginning of a story spanning more than two centuries.

Here’s our Youtube video version of the Haunting Tale Of Bessie Sheppard’s Murder

https://youtu.be/L2j8o4QF-3Y?si=t015eB5AeNsbeZ5R

25/12/2024

Season's Greetings to all this mid-winter yule-tide.
Look after yourselves and best wishes for the new year ahead.
Image from thanks to Aussie Scribe on X.

21/12/2024

Here's our latest plaque, on show this evening. It's looking good eh? Coming to Nottingham? Let us show you round Bendigo's town.

21/12/2024

All photographs of London's buildings should include a London Taxi.

20/12/2024

There's so many reasons to visit Nottingham.

Here's our latest plaque, on show this evening. It's looking good eh? Coming to Nottingham? Let us show you round Bendigo's town.

20/12/2024

Take a deep breath before you dive into this.

Before Pc Haigh was murdered, he wrote his killer's name on a clipboard and inadvertantly solved his own murder.

The Phantom of the Forest is one of my favourite podcasts to work on? For many reasons. I connected with it for some reason.



https://www.spreaker.com/user/12418572/barry-prudom-documentary

19/12/2024

Struggling to find that perfect last minute gift for someone?
The Bendigo Story guided tour might be the one to save you.
It's fun and informative.
Next tour is Sunday Jan 5th 2025 14:00.
Bookings here 👇

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bendigo-story-tickets-1100295335969?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=Search_android

19/12/2024

My friend and colleague from Staffordshire took this photo at Bathpool Park. This was the location of Lesley Whittle's tragic and awful death.
The policing errors changed several aspects of investigating regional crime. It also changed surveillance methods.

Here's a haiku to tempt you.

Bullied Nondescript

Crime and Greed Payback Revenge

Acronym Given



https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45668669

19/12/2024

Terror Threat Tempered

Sixties Lone Wolf in Limbo

Provos Mass Parole



https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48795355

17/12/2024

16/12/2024

Beautiful Art Deco (1929)
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Bloomsbury, complete with the pesky carriers crafted into the ironwork on the window ledges. Mosquitos in this pic.

16/12/2024

London never disappoints. I usually look for the brutalism but concrete doesn't catch the sun like glass does.

15/12/2024

Nottingham was the centre of the lace industry. The last factory switched the machines off in 2011. That factory was in Mapperley.

15/12/2024

Matt’s Major Mistake

Captain Cook’s Country Calls Out

Mother’s Moral Duty



https://www.spreaker.com/episode/47781946

12/12/2024

Boomers' Christmas

I never sat on a Santa’s knee, I found it slightly odd.
Mi mam knew the truth of course, that his name was actually Rod.

Those Christmas Jumpers, they’re far too fancy.
In my day it was just grandad in his ‘new gansey’.

We had real chimneys then, so Santa could fill our socks.
My Dad ruined the magic, he said ‘It’s a load of bollocks’.

Christmas dinner took hours, cooking an enormous fowl.
Enough time for all the blokes, to pop down The Winking Owl.

Families gathered on the sofa, to hear the Queen’s Speech.
Not uncle Tom’s on face-time, from Egypt on a beach.

Christmas was soon over then the meal meant more than the gift.
By the time the kids were bored, the dads were back on shift.

🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅

12/12/2024

Learn about the incredible life of William 'Bendigo' Thomson, Nottingham's first sporting superstar in a walking tour of the City Centre