π 150 years ago today, on November 4th 1876, Andrew Hughes played for Hibs against Edinburgh Swifts on The Meadows.
On his way home to Cowgate, he intervened to protect a woman being attacked. Hughes was struck on the head and died five days later, aged just 21.
@ewangibbs βThe respective unions recognised the changing leisure culture among their members, and balloted on several occasions regarding Benidorm package holiday deals during the trades week.β
What episodes of A Place In The Sun you watch is a clear class indicator, by the way.
Canary Islands, Costa Del Sol - working class.
France, Italian Alps - middle class.
Another day on Easter Road, and with Greggs and Baynes next door to one another, I donβt know why anybody would even think thereβs any debate there. Baynes every single time categorically.
Patrick Stewart was, like many of the greatest British artists of the 20th Century, a working class boy who became a world-class artist thanks to a public arts education made possible by Post War social democracy. He never forgot it.
Is this the longest ever gap between first broadcast and repeat? 90 years later Television Come to London, next Wednesday on BBC Four as part of a night marking the start of the regular high-definition TV service from Ally Pally in 1936