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Be nice if you could order it yourself, Scott, and then I would reimburse you through PayPal, and consider it as a review copy?Leave a comment:
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AP Wolf's latest true crime work
Just in case anyone has an interest, this volume features a lot of new material on Terence Robertson of Fairy Fay fame!
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Returning back to the 'Mile-End-Road job' after some years absence, I noticed a curious coincidence, that being a shop called the 'New Globe', selling oil, soaps and candles at number 512 Mile-End-Road, proprietor a certain Mr R. Cutbush?Leave a comment:
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I'm wondering whether shortly after 1888 his family had Thomas confined to some kind of private institution, such as the Royal Masonic Benevolent Asylum, where Brother William Cutbush served as the 'Life Governor'? That would have been very handy!Leave a comment:
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This refers to the Chinese made 'Bowie' knife sold to Thomas Cutbush by a Mrs Dickinson of the 'Gunsmith' shop, Minories, Tower of London on the 7th March 1891.Leave a comment:
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Oh, you are most likely right, Gary, as I was skimming the archives at the time in a dreadful hurry to get to the beach, as sun was shining, and weather was sweet, so I might have got somewhat discombobulated! However, I remember in that flighty search that one stalwart had played that role for almost...Leave a comment:
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Sorry for the misunderstanding, Chris! I still think it highly unusual for someone to name a person after a race horse, as generally it is the race horse that is named after a person, legend or event? But perhaps I'm just being a pedant! I think it worthwhile to remember that Robertson fled to South...Leave a comment:
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Not quite sure why, Gary, but that made me chuckle!Leave a comment:
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And with equally due respect, Chris, I'm not quite sure where you get the idea that Ireland had 'Fairy Fay' legends and traditions before Sir James Barrie did?
'The Victorian era and Edwardian era saw a heightened increase of interest in fairies. The Celtic Revival cast fairies as part of Ireland's...Leave a comment:
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Fine, but my own delvings show a lot of the mentions of Fairy Fay as a race horse coming from much earlier than 1945, as she was a very popular horse in the very early 1900s - obviously not the same horse through those long years, but same name - I clocked up something like 500 mentions prior to 1945,...Leave a comment:
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My money is wisely spent on 'Wendy's Hut'!Leave a comment:
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Agreed, Gary! But it is still odd that Robertson, the editor of a London based newspaper in the 1950s, should be writing on such an obscure subject in Galway, Ireland. That alone, should be a consideration, as Robertson's bread and butter was the East, and West End of London, and the associated colourful...Leave a comment:
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Thanks Chris, much appreciated! I think your comments to be very valid where his work concerned WWII, but he seems to have somehow obtained a lot of confidential documents for his expose on the Suez Crisis, leading, as I said, to questions being asked in Parliament as to how Robertson got hold of this...Leave a comment:
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This one is a bit off-topic, but it does show that Terence Robertson inhabited a very murky and quirky world for someone who was, after all, a highly successful and acclaimed writer of some very serious factual war books, so factual and revealing that questions were asked in the House of Commons as...Leave a comment:
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