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Stories for 10 April 2000

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Car crazy Dick's Carrots `stable - The magic tastes of childhood are recalled

While Dick Marshall pulled pints at one of Herefordshire's best loved pubs the conversation with customers often turned to his collection of remarkable cars. Flashback recalls the horseless carriages of Hampton Bishop.   more...

Nye Bevan v The Hereford Times

During his political career Aneurin Bevan was involved in a number of embittered clashes. At a time when local government reform is once more a talking point, this Flashback recalls the time in 1949 when the famous Welshman's stinging oratory was levelled against The Hereford Times.   more...

The time an MP thought he heard a 'celestial choir'

Herefordshire's St Owen's Cross was, for several decades, the scene of some dreadful accidents. Flashback recalls how the crossroads almost claimed the life of one of Britain's best-known politicians.   more...

Baby croc was memento of Bluebird speed record

He helped the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell on his Daytona dashes and joined the great RJ Mitchell in the creation of the Spitfire fighter. Flashback salutes Herefordian Cyril Lovesey, engineering maestro.   more...

Sweets and ices of long ago - The magic tastes of childhood are recalled

IT had been the unofficial tuck shop for thousands of schoolchildren for decades. When the splendid sweetshop at 106 Widemarsh Street, Hereford, closed in 1964 it is to be hoped the news was broken gently to the boys and girls.   more...

Skeletons in cupboards prove grisly discoveries

Two Herefordshire country houses had 'secret' lodgers. Flashback recalls what are, literally, two rattling good mysteries.   more...

Hereford sounds cheer after a Crimean success

The Fall of Sebastopol during the Crimean War was a famous occasion in British history. This Flashback recalls the celebrations and a controversy in Herefordshire.   more...

Sport

Rushden & Diamonds 0 ~ Hereford United 0: Saturday, March 25, 2000

HEREFORD put the brakes on Rushden's title aspirations at the superbly-appointed Nene Park ground in Saturday's Nationwide Conference fixture.   more...

Hereford United 1~ Morecambe 1: Saturday, April 1, 2000

A DEFENSIVE slip-up denied Hereford a victory they scarcely deserved in their attempts to close the gap on the Nationwide Conference top two on Saturday.   more...

  
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