The Other Tim Slater

Tim Slater and his brother went potholing in the Peak District and were trapped underground for days by what they thought to be an earthquake. When they finally emerged from the cave they drove towards Derby only to find it had been levelled and that civilisation had been all but destroyed by nuclear conflict. They [...]

Consider Yourself At Home

“The overlookers allowed their thumb and fore-finger nails to grow to an extreme length, in order that when they pinched ears, they might make their nails meet.”
Pinching through the flesh of children’s ears was just one of the practices at Litton Mill in the early eighteen hundreds. The children working in this cotton mill were [...]