Another one of my stitched-together photographs, this time of Rowhedge  as seen from West Quay last Sunday morning. I thought I'd...

Commando issues on sale 10th September 2015 Commando No 4843 – Peterloo! Thomas Hatfield decided that a farmer’s life wasn’t him and de...

Saturday was the annual Invasion Colchester event. Unfortunately, I missed it. But Mel went into town and snapped a few pictures. I have t...

Plotlands was a 6-part BBC TV show broadcast in 1996 filmed partly in Wivenhoe. I found a news item in a local newspaper recently and phot...

One of the most intriguing authors published by Alliance Press and its spin-off Pan Press, was described on the front cover as  "The ...

As with a lot of Bear Alley's most investigative posts, this one begins with an e-mail from my good pal John Herrington, who begins hi...

As a lifetime sandwich lover it pains me to say that bread has become my enemy. If not my enemy, then at the very least it turned agains...

Unless otherwise noted, books appeared under the name James Hadley Chase. No Orchids for Miss Blandish (London, Jarrolds, May 1939)...