Articles with the tag: Alan Griffin


From New York to Omaha beach

From New York to Omaha beach

  In October 1940, a fresh-faced young American named John Buccellato, just out of his teens, enlisted in the United States Army Infantry. His parents who were middle-class Sicillian immigrants lived in an apartment block facing Central Park in New York City. His...
AW 52

AW 52

Long before Concorde went into service and as long ago as 1943, the Coventry firm of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth developed an experimental, tail-less jet aircraft, the AW52 which became known as the Flying Wing. This aircraft had no fuselage or tail section and was...
A 1940s People Carrier

A 1940s People Carrier

When I was a young lad growing up in the nineteen- fifties, my father was a baker in the small Warwickshire town of Southam. In 1947 he had purchased the old windmill and the bakery business that went with it and my two brothers and I moved in to the small cottage...
A 1940s People Carrier

Leamington at War

Surprisingly, practically nothing has been written about the war years in  Leamington or  of  local  people’s  wartime  experiences. Some recent research into those unfortunate Leamington residents killed by wartime bombing suggests that the war years are  a  period ...
Sam Lockhart, Elephant Trainer Extraordinaire

Sam Lockhart, Elephant Trainer Extraordinaire

 The world’s foremost elephant trainer began his working life as a circus acrobat and when he died was described by the Leamington Courier newspaper as a ‘retired giant of the entertainment industry’. The dapper little man with the magnificent white moustache was one...