The 1950s
1954
• A letter from Margate
• To Clevedon to convalesce
1954 — the complete diary
of around 62,000 words.
(Formatting does not yet match
that of other diaries online,
and photographs are to be added.)
1955
• Grace Archer is dead!
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• E.W. Barnes at K.E.S.
1955 — the complete diary
of 96,253 words.
(Formatting does not yet match
that of other diaries online,
and photographs are to be added.)
1956
• The Bio-Assay Lab
• Writing and broadcasting
• No more rugby
• John Bull
• Coming of age
• On holiday at Newquay
• A letter from Pat Welch
• Preaching twice today
• Fog
• Complaints
1957
• 2d a day more
• A jewel robbery in Birmingham
• The Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunal
• Birmingham is shaken by an earthquake
1958
• Buying the ring
• Saved from the gallows
• A memorable lecture
• Anne Vickery and Ron Jesson are married
1959
• Married
|
The 1960s
1960
• Ordained by Principal George Jeffreys
• Africa!
• The old city of Kano
• The Emir’s son is healed!
• Dumped in the road
• Campos Square
• Abrupt end
1961
• Back home from Nigeria
• Clarice and Noel are married
• Vindicated on television!
1962
• George Jeffreys has died
1963
• Amazing happenings in northern Italy
• Death of Pope John XXIII
• President Kennedy is assassinated
1964
• The amazing Ethiopia Crusade
• Postmen on strike
1965
• A. A. Allen at the Town Hall
1966
• We do not have a penny
1967
• Ian Smith
1968
• The work is growing
1969
• Manchester United
• A difficult month
• International conspiracy
|
The 1970s
1970
• Compromise — never
• Plate-making and printing
• The Ethiopian Royal Family
• Growing interest in the work
• Snowballs
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• Letters from old friends
• Bookbinding
• Some Royals
• Locked out
• Abelard and Eloise
• The Beatles
• Glastonbury Pilgrimage
• 250,000 at the pop festival
• The head waiter
• The unholy land
• Sick in Jerusalem
• Gershwin, Holst and Oh! Calcutta!
1971
• Grief
• I play football for England
1972
• To Hillsborough for the semi-final
• I hear from a daughter of King Edward VII
• Problems with plastic — and postmen
1973
• Preaching in Rome
• An audience with Pope Paul VI
• A long wait at the airport
• Our fourth time in Africa
• A healing in Senegal
• With the National Dance Troupe in Sierra Leone
• In Moscow
1974
• A day in London
• The Emperor has been deposed
1975
• The Emperor has been deposed
1976
• A day of miracles in Cape Town
1977
• Our last day in Rhodesia
• Ministering to the sick in Hollywood
1978
• A chaotic meeting in Rhodesia
• A blessed meeting
• Viewing the Holy Shroud
• The new Daily Star
• The last Pope?
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
1979
• Filming for the BBC
• The man in the news
• Look what happened to Vanessa Redgrave
• I am not quite quitting
• A traumatic week
• Liz Robertson
• Eight inches of snow
• The long winter
• I miss Sophia Loren
• Death of Arthur Gordon Smith
• There is no justice
• Camels, llamas and a horse
• In Ireland to see the Pope
• Threats against my life
|
The 1980s
1980
• Everything has been stolen from the car
• Something to remember her by
• Sweltering in the heat
• The natural reflects the spiritual
• Margaret Cameron
• Larry Hagman
1981
• Lady Diana Spencer
• Wickedness
• Nasty experience on the hustings
• Depths of despair
• Head lice
• The great blizzard
1982
• Eric Hutchings has died
• The Mary Rose
1983
• A visit with A. J. Sylvester
1984
• Billy Graham
• A spider in the pool
• Bikini tops
1985
• Doris Stokes
1986
• Gatwick Airport
• Nightmare
• An omelette!
• Bees share my lemon-juice
• Shooting stars
• Mary Queen of Scots
• The Consort of Musicke
• Dartington Hall
• Shura Cherkassky
• George is 80 today; Jock Ewing has returned from the dead
• A.J. Sylvester
1987
• A. J. Sylvester
• Delightful people
• Harvington Hall
• Brean Down
• Margaret Thatcher’s third win
• A distressed soul
• Seven new suits
• Still wearing my make-up
• In Spain, disorientated
• The prima donna
1988
• The death of my father
1989
• Pilgrimage to Iberia
• St Teresa of Avila
• Fatima
• Jacinta and Francisco Marto
• Valladolid
• Garabandal
• Burgos
• Madrid
• A.J. Sylvester
|
The 1990s
1990
• Two Georges
1991
• A visit from Sir George Trevelyan
1992
• Pakistan: Preaching at the cathedral
• Encounter with a jinn
• A visitation of angels
1993
• A hectic day in Brisbane
1994
• In Northern Ireland
1995
• An extraordinary day in India
• Sadhu Sundar Singh
1996
• We survive a cyclone in India
• Devastation and delirium
• Our responsibility for the earth
• The worst disaster in a century
1997
• Death of my mother
• Diana is dead
• Pilgrimage to France
• Lisieux
• Lourdes
• The Grotto
• Gavarnie
• Nevers
• Bernadette
1998
• Reunited with Helen — after 36 years
• A visit from the family
• A funny thing happened in Malawi
1999
• Eve of our Ruby Wedding
|
The 2000s
2000
• At Cala d’Or again
• At Port Austin, Michigan, USA
2001
• A memorable day in Brixham
• The towers fall
2002
• The Queen visits Wells
• An excellent day at Watchet
2003
• Discovering my roots in Nottingham
• Coal Pit Lane
• In the footsteps of D.H. Lawrence
2004
• Half-a-ton of bricks
2005
• A day in the garden
2006
• Off to Cyprus!
• Lights on the ceiling
• Mount Olympus
• Disorientated
• Archaeology
• The magician
• Polish footballers
• Drama of the storm
• Lucy Irvine
• Kathy Staff and Elvis
• St Coleta
• A plot of global dimensions
2007
• Freda’s 70th birthday
• Wood pigeon
• Tramcar 793
• Nightmare of St Benedict’s Road
• Disturbed and anxious
• Death of a great tree
• Hearthrug
• The Avengers
|
