Lois Elsden
WRITER
A place worth visiting
On a recent visit to Birmingham, we wanted to find the Jewellery Quarter… which we had tried to find previously, but somehow got misled by street signs. This time, however, we got there with the help of a friendly traffic warden. On the way we heard an extraordinary sound, as if something mechanical was being […]
MoreQuotations…copyright…
Maybe someone knows the answer about using quotations from other work, books, blogs, songs, particularly song lyrics – to what extent are you allowed to quote from others? If I use anything here on my blog from other sources, I always make it clear, I always attribute it and put a link where possible; I […]
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The Scales Hotel… to the Portland Arms
The Scales Hotel, Cambridge … some time before 1920, which was rebuilt as the Portland Arms Hotel in the 1920’s In order to keep the license, when the rebuilding was taking place, one half was knocked down and my grandfather and the family lived in the other half, keeping the pub open while the rebuilding took […]
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