One interesting resident who lived on Whitelock Street was Edward “Teddy” Banks, a pigeon trainer. He raised homing pigeons ...

[London] : The illustrated London news, 10 March 1855.

With a distinctive gravelly voice and magnetic screen presence, Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was one of the great film ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

June, 1929: Maurice Tabret has survived an air crash, but the injuries mean he's been invalided out of the air force. He's determined to remain cheerful, but his condition affects all those close to ...

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He served mainly in the Far East. But in 1952, he was invalided out after an accident, and had to find a new career. He briefly studied journalism, then moved into TV production. Finally ...

from which he was invalided on pension in 1925. In 1923 he had written his well-known book, “The Lango: A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda”, and thus established his claim as an anthropologist ...

A pal of mine, Paddy Grainger, has just been invalided back home. He lives in Skipton, 10 Millpark Street. Could you take him a bottle of rum and some of your shortbread, if you have the sugar ...