Tony's Musings

The Forgotten Name They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down...

Mourners in the Rain Mourners are standing in the rain For poppy wreaths and fallen plight Those brave young men came to fight Fell in muddy...

1986 - 40 years ago - November Part 1 3-9 November PLANS for the new golf course above Beau Port are thrown into doubt once more when Senato...

Guernsey in 1974 – Part 7 This is an extract from Peter Haining’s guide book of 1974, which is as much interest today for the historian as t...

The Clerical Class Sketch (Three figures stand side-by-side in a row. Archbishop is tall, aristocratic, wearing elaborate, immaculate vestm...

The Modern Cult of Life and the Taboo of Death I’ve entitled this piece, “The Cult of Life” as a contrast with ancient Malta which had a “C...

Now thank we all our God In the closing years of the Thirty Years' War, the Saxon town of Eilenburg lay exhausted beneath the weight of ...