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		<title>In Retrospection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How far does a man travel and to what purpose? How long shall be the road? How long the journey and to what end? And when the end&#8217;s in sight would it be recognized without doubt? With such an end, would the traveller look back with fond memories and nostalgia? Or would he leave it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=701&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminiscing about London</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except for the few days in August three years ago, I never lived in London. London was at best a day&#8217;s trip. More often, it remained a junction en route to longer journeys. Every time I passed through London, I was passing through something I could touch in a familiar way and still experience something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=695&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Railway Heritage, Swindon, Wiltshire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting that we are often enamoured by all things old and neglect the novel beauty of the modern world. We see the charm of medieval abbeys but fail to see the same in towering structures of steel and glass. We tread history as we follow an ancient Roman road but feel less excited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=693&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Cheshire &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28-29 July 2007 Part1 &#124; Part2 &#124; Part3 Little Moreton Hall Getting to this place on a Sunday involved a journey longer than expected. Trains from Chester towards Crewe were not that frequent. Connections at Crewe were not convenient. I had a long wait at Crewe. It did not bother me because I was deep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=670&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Cheshire &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28-29 July 2007 Part1 &#124; Part2 &#124; Part3 Quarry Bank Mill Looking at an OS map of Manchester, we will see that is great city of Industrial Britain presents a thick urban profile. Roads, buildings and railway lines are packed together almost without gaps. The M60 motorway circumscribes the city neatly but the reach of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=666&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Cheshire &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28-29 July 2007 Part1 &#124; Part2 &#124; Part3 The Romance of Chester I had been thinking of coming to Chester and Cheshire for a long time. Over the ages, much praise has been bestowed on Chester in particular, by travellers and tourists alike. I simply had to come to Chester although my drive for travelling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=insearchofbritain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3761989&amp;post=663&amp;subd=insearchofbritain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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