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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1949.

BLACKPOOL DIARY

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single

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IRON AGE

PITS One of them, Simondstown Tho construction of new air- Cairn, provided evidence of the fields, in particular, yielded use of coal as fuel in a funerat much valuable data on our carly |pyre of the Mkidle Bronze Age ancestors. At Manston, Kent, (about 1400 BC) and the other for instance, a settlement of the mould, Pand Cairn, yielded Iron Age was unearthed, There what has been described as the was no indication of it on the most complete record of burial ground or on the available air ceremonial In the Bronze Age Photographs, but when the ever found in Britain.

ground was being prepared for These calens were only two of the laying of a hard - runway, many remarkable discoveries of many pits were found to have been dug in the chalk and filled with soft, dark

The political pulse of Britain: Report No. 1

I

AFTER BLACKPOOL

LIVERPOOL.

THEN at Blackpool, I heard Herbert Morrison say there are still-still, mark you-millions of working men who vote Tory instead of Socialist, I came all over all Little Audrey and did not stop laughing or running until I reached Liverpol.

The pretensions which these Socialists make! They think every working man should back them, even if

they have to wrap the Bible.

in the Union Jack to do it. Among cities, this Liverpool is certainly the biggest aspidia. tra in the world. It is repre- sented at Westminster by eight Socialists and three Torles, yet it claims to be the only im- portant city which has never bnd 1 Socialist municipal, government.

WITHIN a few hours of the winding up of the Socialist Party Conference at Blackpool, William Barkloy took his famous Notebook on tour. He is using it as a thermometer to test the country's political temperature as the present Parliament nears its final year of office. Barkley- noted for his shrewd judgmont—has taken a slice of Britain for his investigation. Hla reports will come both from the big cities and the countryside..

had

thought

the

Socialists moved fast when in Dale-street,

carth. When excavated, they yielded a great quantily, of pottery, dating from the last three centuries before the Roman conquest of AD 43, and traces of the actual houses where the people who used the pits must have dwelt.

At Ileathrow, Middlesex-now London Airport- unique Celtic temple was found at one end of the main rmway, Beaulieu Heath airfield-in-Hampshire supplied a Bronze Ago mortuary house, and a necklace of eighteen beads of amber, then, as now, an Import from afar.

opposite, the Tory office, I saw Large gold earrings were dis-

the sign "State Assurance." At a second glance I saw the words, "Co., Ltd."

covered at Hadley in Berkshire. of the New Stone, Age, about.

Some even earlier remain

2,500 years before the birth of Christ-come to light when an airfield was laid down It was Mr Pickles who told Bibury, in Gloucestershire.

the

Dear A me the story, familiar enough timber building, surrounded by here, new to me and to most a most, probably erected after of you readers, how half a cen- found at Ongar Essex, while

Norman Conquest, Wes Lury ago this company (with mediaeval watch lower was un- others) sent a cable to San earthed at Membury, in Wut- Francisco and earlier to Chicago | shire. ful that there is now no unem- tated by, earthquake and fire.

when these clues were devas- ployed female labour in Liver- pool.

WILLIAM BARKLEY

goes ons tour

CALLING FIRST OF "THE OPEN-HEARTED MEN AND WOMEN LIVING ON MERSEYSIDE'

There are, alas,

20,000 men

out of work, half of them get-

..

It read: "Every dollar, will be

of

ing old, but it is hoped to ab- paid by us." The citizens sorb many of them in the now San Francisco and Chicago burst projects.

into tears of gratitude. It was to me a wholesome

Many American

الم

WILD

ROMAN TOWN Anollier discovery of vital inte. terest to national history made at Grint's Dyke. делг Newbury in Berkshire, Digging a trench for an oil pipelino, workmen came across an earth- It is the hoarfest of, Tory.

work, which provides fresh ́evidence of the survival of the cities, and contains such admixture of British races that it, and it is a further inner con- the U.S.A

They will probably be against better and cheaper than any in reaction from the Socialist Con-

Hampshire town of

Bilchester it properly claims to think poli-vulsion of the apparently united

companies after the end of the Roman oc- ference tically today what the rest of Socialist

Mr Shennan is the chairman, tion that private industry never Liverpool's sagacious men had was built on the site of a pre- with its grim assump. were broken by these calamities. | Supation. A prisoner - of-war camp at Honllan, Cardiganshire us will think about 12

machine months biggest individual

that the too, of the whole Lancashire plans anything' while hence,

shareholder Industrial Association, All fold, at the same time the

built up reserves and historic hill-camp, and a Dorset in Tate and Lyle's is the C.W.S. I should think his Industrial party polley is to steal It seems, therefore, an appro-

were able to pay in stone quarry revested an tron priate place for Dr William The Tory leader

Advisory Committee of Liver the fruits of past pri-

full all the here is

claims, Age village. Barkley to feel the polit Alderman Shennon

pool

demonstrates how a group

vate enterprise.

In all, 30 new airfields, an thus plling up prestige artillery range at Sennybridge pulse

by of businessmen can show over- is profession an architect, and by whelming superiority to

for British Insurance, (Breconshire), a bombing range eight hours' politics a builder of vision and State servant in getting things the study of the patient will con- foresight

which today brings in at Crichel (Dorset) and several Half an hour with on the vulse the political-

£33 million a year open-cast coal workings provid- from overseas.

ed Interesting Information which

1.

of the nation.

diagnosis after

medical profession.

it is that the next

election in Liverpool WHI return seven Tories--and two-So- cialists.

He may bo wrong. He has been

before.

Redistribution of

scats cuts the total

number by two, and while it

makes the

clection a bigger Working Teries! gamble than ever it

appears to favour the Opposi-

tion,

Brey

this taut, steely eyed, first to say that he has had DLOVE. But he is the haired Liver great help from the local Minis- pudlian would cure all try of Labour. the weary willism and

tired timidness in any

one.

Mr Shennan is a

good

tonic. He is too

under

ACHIEVEMENT

Mr George Pickles

who secka to rouse the is another man here

local industriallats to action. He is in busi-

manufac

ress hi

·

turer of processed food.

He demonstrated the

FACTS

J

They all tell me that sheds new light on the dim this prestige will cor- past. tainly be destroyed if Gearing's high explosive the industry is nation-bombs, which destroyed-o

many of the most priceless poz«.... sessions of our national heritage, Surely such facts will shake also contributed to the dis-

-open-heartedness, of Shaking SirStalford allsed.

these citizens of the world-whose eyes are

PRIVATE ENTER

on

at

Mr. Pickles took no Interest fry politics unul two years ago. Then the anger in his

in

OUR PRIDE

the

for Liverpool to enjoy WHAT did the Shennanites set. all the oceans to which the Mer- Sir Stafford Cripps alone. Tory as he is they smelled that Liverpool's p.m. when I

out to do? Twenty years ago scy leads. Although it was 9.30 Ecceptance of Socialist

tscovery ・ of interesting anu- he ought to be bottled story as a great commercial and hotel, he

policyquarios. met him in the towards insurance-unless he is on early Saxon arch and parts One of the most important is the National trading centre in the Edwardian Into one poached on toast for friendly to Communism. Health scheme by Mr-era was not in future going to

processed a raw egg still, as he once was, not un- Aneurin Bevan and be what it

of a carved Saxon er

cross-shaft distributed in

found in mo in his own

the Church at All doses to town clerks and city "that ships, for example, do not snooker..

dally

used to be.

kitchen at 2 "We saw," he said to

me, am-afler shattering me

Hallows by the Tower in bumbles everywhere,

City of London. They were re- Before I met him a friend of bines and oil-burning nowadays with tur

vealed through a fall of plaster Working men Tories! The his said, "Harold Wilson (Prest and

after the Ore that gutted the ploce is full of them, although, dent of the Board

diegel

engines, coincidentally, you had a Com- fealous as hell of him." It seems that

church and provide the first of Trade) is

evidence of a school of Saxo need the large crews munist strike at the docks. Only that under his leadership this red.

formerly car

sculptors at the beginning of the 34 Socialista won their wards at Tory

The changing

11th Century, the the municipal elections.

has been That streets ahead 00

mes meant heavy un- of any Government gives the Tories more than 100 department in what is now call-

Liver places in the city hall.

ed planning

pooployment. Me Shearm, among things, is the Liverpool Cripps, the local chancellor of the ex- chequer.

A

NO LETTERS

His: Onance commillee

other

they

had nover been an industrial elty. Wo looked shead amid the changing times."

"

In the three cor-ke

has poration Industrial estes the fruits.

ONE

NE day I will welto a whole article on

this subject of golfer's heart he has Liverpool insurance. Enough to just taken a cup off remind you that this is another CELTIC MONASTERY the Scots at St An aspect of what is called. "Tory drews moved him to misrule." It is a story of great talk to his fellows pioneering and of thinking on He saw how the things which were never thunk closing of the Liver up by any Whitehall official. pool Cotton Exchange lost millions to We are not mules, we British.

A curious discovery was made in the Scilly Islands Enemy bombe set light to the uninhabit- the are had burnt itself out, ed island of St Helens After. examination showed the ra the city and to Bri- We have great pride of ancestry must have been a Celle morase mins, hitherto unknown, of buildings and enclosures which lain without anybody and great hopes of posterity, tery, dating from the earliest

LL the Blackpool conterence

nostrums, nationalisation of bought 4,000 acres from Lord and Fazakerley 28,000 men and stirring a finger, except the est God willing and man exerting centuries of

tates at Kirby, Spako, sugar, cement, and insurance, Sefton,

Including the whole women are now employed. In

ton men. The other. Indus- Let us be proud of our inhorland.

communities for

coaxed to

no

...

don't seem to be swallowed here parish of Kirby. It is planning jobs which did not exist 20 at all. Tate and Lyle's have a 600-acre industrial estate, and years ago. They are employed trialists took the view "It does their biggest refinery here, and the rest is to be developed by not by the corporation, but by not hurt me; damm him I'm all most of their workers Hive in housing? the constituency of Alderman workers in the Immense new private Industries which the right,”

the Kirby,

J. Soc., Everton.

factories which

are going to corporation has spring up.

Mr. Pickles Immediate in Mr Kirby very frankly tells LCI. are starting an

cuter establish themselves — buliding ferest is to demonstrate that a crow a party view robbed us stone walla, madkeová)) Svaults me, that he has not received prise which will take half a mile factories for them if need be, threat to any one industry lea even one letter from any worker of road frontage. It is to be the but always helping

threat to all. He is calling a on this subject. They Just are finest aspidistta... brg For This is claimed as a unique conference of all industries not interested, in spite of Black don....It is to be the finest achievement, knocking spots off pool pulpit thumping on this copper-tubing"

threatened with nationalisation. plant. In the Jaded old theme of State owner- world, and its new processes any record by a Government ahip.

Of these, in Liverpool, In Will manufacture. these products trading estate. It is so success, surance, is the greatest.

and be united in main- Southampton has long been taining it.

known, as a medialval town of It would Inflame me, It would real interest; but its destruction make me mad to think that we by fire has revealed sucht fresh evidence in the form of anywhere of our legitimate con

in our own national

and remnantes of "the 2 achievements.

houses which once stood above them.. seem to be very Tory this time. Why not, I'd like know? By heavens, I was all Socialist last week,

Though these are sul fub of

debris, it is expected that when the survey, now in progress is completed the entire spian the town in the Middle Ages.

(London Express Barbics) will be known.

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