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    1. "Best of British - Past & Present" magazine - ed. Peter KELLY
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    3. SNIPPET: If you haven't already discovered the excellent magazine with colorful photographs published in England - "Best of British - Past and Present," editor Peter KELLY - be sure and check out the website for subscription info., back issues available for purchase and/or look for individual issues at bookstores. As an example -- The October 1998 issue included the following articles/features: "The Magic of Toy Cars," "Sweet Memories/Fry's Chocolate," "Biscuit Tins w/Style," "Village Pumps," "Clydesdales in Clover/Haven for Mistreated/Ageing Horses/Fairways Heavy Horse Center, near Perth," "Devon's Art Deco Island,1929 Period Hotel/Burgh Island," A Love Affair w/Ships/Robt. G. LLOYD, Britain's Fine Maritime Artist," "Hidden Cornwall, " "Deer of the New Forest," "Elizabeth GARRETT, Suffolk Girl/Britain's First Woman Doctor," "Gwydir Castle's Return to Glory," "Escape FromThe Deep/John Hawtrey CAPES Escape, Sunken British Submarine off Greek Island of Cephalonia," "The G! rand Old 'Duke of York'/Derbyshire Inn,"' "This & That, Praise for the Hulton GETTY Picture Library," Conservation of Plant Species," "Britain Now," "Music/Sounds Then, Records of Yesteryear," Readers letters in the "Post Bag," "Poet's Corner," "Helping Hands," "Yesterday Remembered" columns and a "Bookshelf" column w/crossword puzzle. From the "Poet's Corner" -- "Away From Home," by Ann RAYNER, Van Nuys, USA: "How did I ever leave England/the land that was there from my start/from the rain-scented days of my childhood/to the summers that captured my heart/I was so young and unknowing/when I saw her recede, from the air/.My life stretched before me, unending/and my England would always be there/I couldn't have dreamed how I'd miss her/how I'd yearn for her temperature clime/for the family and friends that I left there/for a simpler and more tranquil time/How the call of the islands is magic!/It haunts every daytime and night/from the mountains and mist-laden valleys/to the villages tucked out of sight/So give me, oh, give me my England/when my feet are too tired to go on/and I'll wear all her daisies in my bonny hair/long after the greyness is gone/Give me, oh, give me my England/I will sing her forever in song/For it's there I was born, and it's there I'll return/to the land where I truly belong."

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