--- In SHADO@y..., "Paul Bowers" <pbowers@p...> wrote:
> I confess that I haven't been contributing, I've been basically a
> lurker for a few years (got "kerplopped" at least once by the
> resident Klingon, however).
If you mean Yuchtar, I think she left the group recently, unless I ak
wrong.
memorymetropolis@w... wrote (Subject: E.S.P.):-
> ... * An envelope full of stamps and what's the address?
> "Mr. Ed Straker, Harlington-Straker Studios, Harlington West,
> Wessex" At least, I think that the last word is "Wessex",
> can anyone tell me if this is possible? ...
Wessex is correctly the modern name for a kingdom that ruled parts of
southwest England in Anglo-Saxon times. It is derived from Anglo-Saxon
"Westseaxna" = "of the West Saxons". But in fiction it is sometinmes
used for an unspecified fictional English county. There is evidence
that Gerry Anderson imagined Harlington-Straker Studios to be a
replacement for and in the same place as the real Elstree Studios, and
West Harlington village for either Elstree or Borehamwood. But I did
not realise this early, and in my UFO series stories (see
http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/ufo/ufo.htm ) I put SHADO
headquarters in the Somerset / Wiltshire area, wherev the old kingdom
of Wessex was. (In that story the public learn the truth, and Derby
North parliamentary constituency gets - well, read the story)
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