Sorting Fact From Fiction in a World That has Long Been Forgotten
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Who Do You Think You Are? BBC2, 9.00pm Wife Swap Channel 4, 9.00pm Sue Johnston got her disillusionment in early. She had grown up believing that granddad, prince of the footplate, had once driven the Flying Scotsman. Any railway family could have put her straight.
The knowledge probably ranks as arcane these days, but, once upon a time, when organised labour counted for something, it mattered. Alf, Sue's grandfather, had worked for London, Midland and Scottish; the Flying Scotsman was the pride of the LNER. In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s there was a fierce rivalry between the companies, east coast and west. But if Alf was an LMS driver, he never pulled a lever on the Scotsman.See the full content of this document
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Sorting Fact From Fiction in a World That has Long Been Forgotten
What made this episode of Who Do You Think You Are? so engaging was the sense of a world gone and almost forgotten. Once upon a time, the first rung on the ladder of ...
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