Photographic Quiz.
Photo number:- seven
Question:- Did this
man break 4 minutes for the mile in the 1940s - ten years before Bannister? Why
was he never given the credit? Who was he? Did he run in bare feet before Ron
Hill and Bruce Tulloch?
Dear Blog,
Continuing my research in to the 'History of Coventry Godiva Harriers
and Other Clubs in the City over the Last 140 Years', I continue to be frustrated
...
I
accept the financial impossibility of
publication; the number of potential sales would be limited by the specific
nature of the topic and despite my concentration on the sociological,
historical, industrial, educational, philanthropic and immigration influences
on Godiva rather than a never ending list of results, not enough books would be
sold to turn in a profit. Without the £40m from this week's Nation Lottery, the
tome will go unpublished!!
Mentioning the National Lottery nicely
brings me to my second gripe ... how come all that money was wasted by the
National Lottery to finance the National Newspaper Archives as part of the
Millennium Legacy to provide local libraries with micro fiche copies of their
Local Papers as many are totally unreadable, and those that are, have the side
columns so distorted because of the spine folding, that they too cannot be
read!!!!!! And now that the National Newspaper Archives are 'on line', things
are not much better for the above two reasons AND also from the fact that only
peculiar years are chosen for copying and some parts of the country are very
much favoured over others ... compare two similar sized cities such as Belfast
and Bradford. And why are so many Southern Irish newspapers considered worthy
of so much attention???
Come back in 25 years Colin and all papers
will be done ... so that's O.K. then. Hopefully I will be getting my telegram from
the Queen, King, President [Chairman?] Corbyn or even one from that nice Mr
Cameroon??
Colin
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