![]() ![]() In my day, history lessons jumped from the Black Death to the First World War, leaving me to fill the void with details gleaned from books and museums. I fear my historical ignorance adds point to the government’s plan to focus the school history curriculum on major historic milestones. And I’d defy anyone to think of the Duke of Wellington without also picturing Wellington boots. ![]() My second response would have been “Charing Cross”, because Waterloo East was the next station out of London on the branch line to Sidcup, where I lived until the year of Abba’s victory. I vividly remember watching the Swedish pop group win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and thinking it was a life-changing moment. Until last autumn, if in a word association game I was given “Waterloo”, I’d probably have responded “ABBA”. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Originally written for the March 2015 issue of the Tetbury Advertiser, this post previews the Friends of St Mary’s Waterloo Ball. ![]()
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