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Tiverton: WWI Naval Gun [Lime Kiln Road] – Playing in the 1970s Was Very Different! (5.7.2025)

I was born in Oxford – but my parents moved to Tiverton (in East Devon) in 1970. I started school (Wilcombe) in 1972 (when 5-years old) – but changed to a school in Exeter in 1977. However, I have a memory of joining (after school) a group of classmates who “played” on a WWI Naval Gun situated on a public street (situated in Lime Kiln Road)! I have lived in Sutton (South-West Greater London) for over three-decades today – but recently – whilst picking-up my children from school in Cheam, I saw youths dressed in the uniforms of what is today termed the “Combined Cadet Force”, and the thought of myself once playing on a military gun (around 1977) bubbled-up in my mind (although publicly accessible – the gun in question was placed outside the Tiverton Sea Cadets Training Hall). In fact, after having experienced many interest things in my life (including four wonderful years based in Hereford during the 1980s), and having travelled around the world, I surprised myself with this memory and was not even sure it was real!

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How the BBC “Reckoned” with Jimmy Saville! (27.10.2023)

The BBC enabled and facilitated the crimes of Jimmy Saville and when his victims voiced their pain, suffering and anguish, the BBC was at the forefront of supressing these witnesses. The message of the BBC was that the Bourgeois is in control of this society – and that the BBC supports that self-declared role. The ordinary people – those who were the victims of Jimmy Saville – were portrayed by the BBC as powerless and existing only to serve as play-things for the Bourgeoisie. When Jimmy Saville died in 2011 – the BBC deliberately ‘celebrated’ his life and ignored the reality of his offending. Today, some 12-years after his death, the BBC is attempting to absolve its own reputation by creating the false narrative that the BBC was just as much a victim of Jimmy Saville as everyone else. Jimmy Saville and the BBC represent exactly the same reality.

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