______________________________________________________________________        ‘Time flies by when I’m the driver of a train          And I ride on the footplate there and back again…’      ______________________________________________________________________      A short distance from Trumpton, and a quick drive away from Camberwick      Green you’ll find the quiet hamlet of Chigley. Life in Chigley focuses around      the activities at Winkstead Hall, The Chigley Pottery, […]

            Crikey, now there’s a headline and-a-half. But then, July must have felt       like a month and-a-half for poor Geoffrey Hayes – you know – THE       Geoffrey from evergreen pre-school favourite Rainbow. Unless you were       living down a hole last month, or indeed a contestant on Big Brother,       you can’t fail to have heard […]

   ______________________________________________________________________      Fleetway fans will be familiar with Colin Whittock’s work for Whizzer And Chips      Buster and other weeklies. Between 1970 and 1986 Colin brought us the best      days of Lazy Bones, Catnap, and Mizz Marble, took over strip duties on Champ,      Clever Dick and many more besides. But he’s more widely known as an […]