Humpty Dumpty

Loughborough, the second biggest town in Leicestershire, has a university. It also has the world’s largest bell foundry and an unusual...

In 1963 ‘The Reshaping of Britain’s Railways’ first saw the light of day. It was a report composed by Richard Beeching and its immediate...

‘Humpty, what is the first thing you can remember?’ He was turning over the pages of an album. He paused. Then he said: ’Riding my...

Nottingham may be famous for its sheriff, its mad, bad and dangerous to know poet, and its goose fair. With Robin Hood and Lord Byron no...

St Giles’ church Northampton has a distinctive global edge to it. UK mission in the 19th century targeted Africa and India. St Giles’...

I’m reading a book that is in the news and on the radio. Rightly so. John Barton’s ‘A History of the Bible’ deals with issues that...

In the days of sail the Royal Navy had a place for everything and everything in its place. Woe betide anyone who failed to notice this....

A newly built centre in New Eltham, London is the UK headquarters of an international Church that is thriving in Kerala, India and has...

As I sometimes say to Humpty, Mother wit – aka common sense and keeping your feet on the ground – is one of nature’s priceless assets. It...

‘I have run the great race, I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.’ Few of us could speak so confidently about our days on...

Falling? Investors know all about it. They see the value of their shares tumbling. Airlines know all about it. They see empty planes...

INTAKE All Saints’ church, Intake, Doncaster has a knock-out of a website, not to mention a place-name, unlike any other. It features...

‘We band of brothers.’ Shakespeare gave us that. And much more. Yes, we all remember quotations. That is because how you say it is as...

Nuns are in the television schedules. Not perhaps for the best reasons. You may remember reading ‘I leap over the wall’ by Monica...