Forget Dinosaur Bones, Natural History Is Alive and Kicking in Kingskerswell ; Www.Thisissouthdevon.Co.Uk Comment Mike Baker's Secret Society Www.Thisissouthdevon.Co.Uk Mbaker@Heraldexpress.Co.Uk

Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › February 10, 2010

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I CAN distinctly remember the first time the words 'Natural History' entered my lexicon.

I was eight, my brother 10, and my grandparents still young enough then to plan a trip from the Home Front heartland of Kent to the centre of London, a magical place filled with sights and sounds so very different to those we encountered at Gran's small bungalow in the country.

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Forget Dinosaur Bones, Natural History Is Alive and Kicking in Kingskerswell ; Www.Thisissouthdevon.Co.Uk Comment Mike Baker's Secret Society Www.Thisissouthdevon.Co.Uk Mbaker@Heraldexpress.Co.Uk

Our days out to London were always the highlight of the two school holiday weeks we spent away from our parents every summer.

They started early, following a quick check on our horoscopes in The Express over bacon and eggs to make sure nothing untoward was going to happen. Auntie Connie and Uncle Bill would meet us on the platform to catch the morning train from Sandling station to London Paddington.

Auntie Connie would be laden with at least two of those zipped sho...

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