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Science · Measurement
High water at Westmere on the first Tuesday in March was due at 6:41 a.m., and Bernard Lusk was on the quay by 6:30, because that is…
Ideas · Memory
…spaniel, licensed on March 9, 1953, to a fish merchant named Harold Penhale of 14 Quay Street, Westmere, for a fee that the register records in a firm brown hand and that would not now buy a cup of tea. Margit Sallow…
Culture · Film
…She never cut it. She never said in public why. When she died in 1991, her obituary in the Westmere Courier ran to 140 words and mentioned her roses. This summer, The Salt Road was finally shown—first at the Halbridge…
Ideas · Reading
…who knows how long in the two-for-one crate outside a secondhand shop on Chandler Street in Westmere. I did not want it for the weather. I wanted it for page 41, where somebody had underlined Tarrant’s confident…
Technology · Infrastructure
…came next. This September, whoever came next was Achterberg. The new case was a widow in Westmere whose supplement had been stopped in error in 2017 and restored by a tribunal in August, with 104 months of arrears.…
Ideas · Essay
On the front at Westmere, deckchairs are rented by the hour. You pay at a green hut beside the lifeguard station, where a man named Wilf…
Culture · Archives
…the new map. Other readers come for the handwriting. In the spring, a woman drove over from Westmere with a photograph of her grandfather in uniform and asked whether she could see something he had written. Mira…
Culture · Small towns
…wrong with it.” What he loves are the two 1950s 35mm projectors he found in a barn outside Westmere and rebuilt over two winters at his kitchen table, and which he runs on the first Friday of every month, when…
Technology · Hospitals
…making the model in 2019. In 2023, Halbridge bought 400 secondhand pagers from a hospital in Westmere that had completed its own switch to smartphones, and keeps them in a cupboard as spares. Gail Prentice, who has…
Ideas · Work
…sleeper ask for the same protection at noon that everyone else takes for granted at midnight; Westmere tried a version of this in 2019, for 63 households, and reports no great hardship to anyone. And public life could…