Ian Waugh

85 posts

Flightmares

Flightmares

I am lucky in many ways and happily have travelled and flown a lot from countries across Europe to nations throughout Africa. I have seen and experienced so much as a result. Funny how things come back to haunt. I was trying to remember this morning the worse flights I […]

The Torquay missing Victorian trowel

The Torquay missing Victorian trowel

This is a very long story about a valuable 1867 silver commemoration trowel used in the laying of the foundation stone of Torquay’s Haldon Pier, that was later used to weed a driveway, lost during late 1800’s, then found in the rubbish on Rainham Marshes by an Edwardian Chatham bricklayer, acquired […]

How DevonAir Wiped Me

My role at DevonAir Radio was of no great consequence. I was, between 1980 and 1987, a loyal member of the station team – hard-working and grossly underpaid. We had built a radio station with local news and information in it’s core – it’s very foundation. My time at this […]

BBC – Mind your language, or maybe not

BBC – Mind your language, or maybe not

I am somewhat confused with the British Broadcasting Corporation. When is it okay to use colourful language? At one end of the BBC the use of any words very slightly offensive or indeed with sexual references are banned before 2100 hours on television. Meanwhile at the other end of the […]

Television presenters eating in-vision

Television presenters eating in-vision

I think I have a fairly strong constitution.  But there is one aspect of television presentation that really does make me heave. I cannot stand watching people eating or tasting food on camera. To be honest it makes me feel so uncomfortable and even a little nauseous. I quite enjoy […]

Collecting Archive

Collecting Archive

Over the last 20 or 25 years I have been involved in a significant amount of historic research and this has led me to look into the lives of a great many people long since dead. As a result I have amassed a sizable collection of ephemera, including personal letters, […]

The Edwardians – Peace or Turmoil?

The Edwardians – Peace or Turmoil?

The Edwardian era that characteristically did not begin and end with the reign of Edward VII is generally regarded as Britain’s calm before the storm. I would say that this much lauded brief spell began a few years before Queen Victoria’s death and ended abruptly at the outbreak of the […]

Fair Cloth Levy

Fair Cloth Levy

Here is a plan.  All clothes retailers and importers across the EU pay  a three per cent levy at the point of import on all clothing sourced from Asian and third world countries. Importers and retailers will be required NOT to pass on this extra charge to the consumer. The […]

Waugh Blood

Waugh Blood

I’ve been working on my genealogy for about twenty years now. When I started out there was no internet and therefore no online data, so the only way to build verified information was to visit record offices and libraries. As my mobility became worse by lucky coincidence internet access improved […]

Protecting those who were here before us

Protecting those who were here before us

Since auction websites like eBay entered the online arena the success of moneymaking ventures by some has in a way caused serious social and devastating historic damage. I am referring here to the thousands who have unwittingly taken advantage of these websites by selling off literally tons of “family junk”, […]

His Majesty King Richard III

His Majesty King Richard III

Now that the body found under a car-park in Leicester has definitely been identified, the fact that the circumstances surrounding the last moments of life have been ascertained, that Shakespeare, his fellow writers and certain historians should posthumously eat humble pie, there is a discussion underway regarding a potential state […]

What use local radio?

What use local radio?

Is ‘radio local’  still the audience grabber when it comes to bad weather, emergencies and localised disaster? I have been following a debate online and a user had this to say: “Weather? I can look at my iPhone home screen or check the web. Or, given the detail you often […]

Proudly British

Proudly British

I for one am extremely proud of my country. A lot is published today regarding the closing of the single greatest event this nation has experienced in modern history. As an overall happening London 2012 showcased the capital and nation in way that was calm, cool and British. It made […]