So, I have got over the shock of the assault of the web crawler and everything seems to have settled back down for now even though my statistics for 2026 are completely ruined and it is only early March.
What shall I do? I am going to turn back the clock. When I started my blog it wasn’t about travel or holidays it was about growing up and I tried to look back on the first early years of my life through the news of the day.
I began in 1954 (the year that I was born) and I have already re-posted those so I am jumping forward now to 1960 where I have picked out significant events from that year.
Before you go, if you go this is Grimsby Docks at Legoland theme park near Windsor (where the King has his castle).
So, excuse me while I digress,
I live in Grimsby which is not a top tourist destination. Not many people have been Or have they? Let me take you two hundred miles or so south to the County of Berkshire and to Legoland Windsor. Legoland is a theme park and one of the attractions is a zone called ‘Miniland’ which is basically a model of London built out of Lego bricks and here there is Buckingham Palace, The Palace of Westminster, St Paul’s Cathedral and a whole host of other famous landmarks.
There isn’t much room for anywhere else but right there alongside the buildings of the capital is a model representing docks – not Portsmouth or Dover or Southampton but Grimsby. Grimsby! To me that is completely astounding and I can find no explanation as to why the designers of ‘Miniland’ should select the remote town of Grimsby to be represented in this way, maybe they got lost on their way over from Sweden?
If, like me, you find this hard to believe then here it is…
Have Bag, Will Travel 
