| Title: | * BASINGSTOKE - Gateway to Wessex * |
| Notice: | BASINGSTOKE - John Arlott lived here - then left, I wonder why |
| Moderator: | COMICS::CORNEJ |
| Created: | Wed Jul 27 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 925 |
| Total number of notes: | 5875 |
There is an excellent article in this weekends Daily Telegraph colour
magazine about South Africa by Nicholas Shakespeare (yes he is a
distant relation of our Will). Read and enjoy.
One paragraph caught my eye in passing. I quote:
"Soweto is to Johannesburg what South Africa is to the rest of the
world - a sump in which to lock away our terror. What Soweto most
emphatically is not is a shanty-town like the slums encroaching Lima
and Rio. Superficially, it is more like Basingstoke."
Makes me wonder if he sees far more or far less than most people. The
mindless violence of Soweto; the mindless violence of Black Tuesday;
... Ho Hum
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 576.1 | The whole world on your doorstep! | ODDONE::HOLLANDS_C | I'm going mad - wanna come too? | Mon Jul 06 1992 11:31 | 5 |
... By sheer coincidence, last weeks Basingstoke Gazette likened
Brighton Hill to Downtown Beruit. Although I hadn't noticed any tanks
or sniper fire...
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| 576.2 | Latest, Basingstoke seen steaming towards the Antartic ;-) | KERNEL::MENDELSOHN | Greg Mendelsohn, RSMS | Tue Oct 06 1992 11:09 | 7 |
... and in Saturdays Guardian, Basingtoke got lumped with Pretoria
and all "the other odds and ends" in the southern Indian Ocean.
Greg
(I will get the exact page reference tonight - the above is from memory)
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