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  • Masterpiece

    by Colin Reed ...
    When Ercolina, a music teacher, finds out that her husband Nigel has been cheating on her, she needs to regain his attentions, and hopes she has a found a way of doing so when he asks her to compose his own personal music for the industrial awards ceremony, in which he is being presented for his design of a techo-suit. The suit can be programmed with remedial properties and when worn, can ... Read more

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  • Blackpool and the Fylde During WW1

    by Colin Reed ...
    Blackpool was the Royal Army Medical Corps base during WW1, with 10,000 RAMC personnel in the town. When war broke out on August 4th 1914 the holiday season in the popular holiday resort was in full swing…and then the soldiers began arriving. First the regional regiments to train on the wide beaches and stay in the plentiful accommodation available. Then the munition workers and then the medics ... Read more

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  • The Conception, Construction and Opening of the Tower at Blackpool 1890-1894

    by Colin Reed ...
    In the three and a half years from its conception in late 1890, to its opening on Whit Monday 1894, the Blackpool Tower has, in its preparation and construction, a story of triumph over conflict, of financial successes and failures, of the stern arguments of Temperance in condemnation of alcohol in its protracted application for a drinks licence, a conflict of aesthetic values in the perceived ... Read more

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  • Cissie Loftus. Versatile Music Hall Entertainer and Actress

    by Colin Reed ...
    Taken largely from contemporary newspapers, this is a biography of Music Hall star Cissie (Cecilia) Loftus, whose career also spanned the serious stage, movies and radio, first successfully bursting onto the sage at the young age of 17. Much loved in her time but now mostly a forgotten name, she showed her versatility through published stories, music and lyrics and sketches. As well as a musician, ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of the Ocean Monarch

    by Colin Reed ...
    In the middle of the 19th century an unsettled Europe was being drained of emigrants dreaming of a new and better life in the New World. The packet ship Ocean Monarch was carrying nearly 400 of these passengers and crew on its return voyage to Boston from Liverpool on August 24th 1848. While still in sight of the North Wales coast, the ship caught fire which swept through its timbers in record ... Read more

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  • Mr Gigglebottom Goes To Work

    by Colin Reed ...
    A children's read-along story, Mr Gigglebottom is the adult male of the Gigglebottom household. He is the father and husband in a classic nuclear family and is a man who doesn't analyse the world too much and as a consequence quite happy and also a little carelessly minded. When he becomes fed up of going to work in his car because of the traffic congestion, he tries his own individual, and ... Read more

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  • The Proud Black and White Speckled Hen

    by Colin Reed ...
    The proud black and white speckled hen was different to all the other hens in the farmyard. She had black and white feathers,and all the others hens had brown ones. She considered that being different meant being better and, when an opportunity arose where she thought she could demonstrate that fact,she took it without pausing for a second thought. The error of her decision however,is obvious to ... Read more

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  • A Bad Day for an Urban Sasquatch

    by Colin Reed ...
    Herman, having recently been made redundant, is being fussily groomed by his wife as she perfects the state of his suit he is obliged to wear for a job interview that morning. He is used to wearing overalls for work, and being generally casual or careless in his ordinary, everyday, dress sense.To walk the streets like a tailor's dummy is completely uncharacteristic of him, but he has to do it ... Read more

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  • Mrs Gigglebottom Is Always Busy

    by Colin Reed ...
    Mrs Gigglebottom is the mother of a conventional family. In the picture story, each member of the family has an idiosyncrasy which courts the eccentric and provides the humour available to the read-aloud script for children at the beginning of their learning. Mr and Mrs Gigglebottom feature in this edition. ... Read more

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  • L for Louisa

    by Colin Reed ...
    A routine ride home on the underground metro provided Wilfred Truebody with both dreams and nightmares. He was a different man when he got off at his usual stop, and expecting to get home for tea. ... Read more

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  • Coming Clean

    by Colin Reed ...
    Breezy McCready's habitual weekly visit to the launderette on the high street did not go to plan for the first time ever. However, from out of the depths of despair, a new opportunity arose to make him ten times the man that, for a lifetime, he never thought he ever could be. ... Read more

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  • The Lion and the Cheesegrater

    by Colin Reed ...
    The title is based on the classic line from Aristophanes, Lysistrata. In the needs of relationship and partnership, Ottilia is confident about what she wants, but Hayley and her husband Trent, in their own particular ways, are not. Hayley and Trent have grown apart and both have been easily convinced by different agents on how to change things, though the consequences of that change have not been ... Read more

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