With 'our' golden post box

Gold, fish

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September 17th 2012
Just a quick one... Our town got its own golden post box, honouring an Olympic gold medal winner, an athlete with somewhat tenuous links to the place, having attended a very swanky private school nearby, and more recently her parents retired here. Not exactly 'local quine done good', but nevertheless warmly welcomed 'home' and embraced as one of our own and now we have one more ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more