OPINION: Voices from festive past occupy Christmas present
Keith Skipper says the voices from Christmas past still ring true today
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Keith Skipper says the voices from Christmas past still ring true today
Keith Skipper The final meeting of Mitford & Launditch RDC jut before abolition in 1974 - Credit: Archant A homely epistle sent to this newspaper by a Broadland garage proprietor and published in May, 1952 carried a whimsical postscript destined to remain a potent warning to anyone keen on public service. The letter from Norfolk comedian Sidney Grapes, who appeared on stage and in print as The Boy John, used our precious local dialect to furnish a favourite character with her customary dash of homespun philosophy. It read : PS – Aunt Agatha, she say: “ If you want to keep friends wi’ th...