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08/09/2026
The Tuck Box, the Haircut and Going Back to Sedbergh
Jonathan Vernon
07/09/2026
Death Spirals, Jaws and the Last Days Before Boarding School
Jonathan Vernon
05/09/2026
A Northumberland Day Out: Belford, Bamburgh, and Marilyn Monroe, 1976
Jonathan Vernon
04/09/2026
From Gosforth Baths to “Posh Prison”: September 1976
Jonathan Vernon
03/09/2026
From Boarding School to “Mrs Daddy”: Choosing to Be There
Jonathan Vernon
31/08/2026
A Teenage Diary of Family Absence, First Dates and Gosforth in 1976
Jonathan Vernon
31/08/2026
Learning Self-Kindness After a British Boys’ Boarding School Childhood
Jonathan Vernon
26/08/2026
Home Alone at 14: A Teenage Summer in Gosforth, 1976
Jonathan Vernon
25/08/2026
Gosforth, August 1976: Bathwater, Girlfriends and a Teenage Diary
Jonathan Vernon
21/08/2026
Summer 1976: Siphoning Bathwater, Buying Chart Singles from Woolworths and on the phone to my ‘girlfriend’
Jonathan Vernon
18/08/2026
Rose Cottage and Beadnell: A Teenage Diary of Memory, Loss and Belonging, August 1976
Jonathan Vernon
16/08/2026
Growing Up in the 1970s: From Appleby Castle to Posh Gosforth
Jonathan Vernon
13/08/2026
Loch Maree Hotel 1976: Fishing, Fathers and the Silences Between Us
Jonathan Vernon
04/08/2026
Salon 66, Fencer Hill Park and the Boy I Might Have Become
Jonathan Vernon
01/08/2026
From Castle Life to City Baths: A Teenage Diary of Swimming, Sinus Pain and Space: 1999
Jonathan Vernon
29/07/2026
Appleby Castle Diaries: Denis Vernon, FIH PLC and a Teenager’s View of Castle Life
Jonathan Vernon
27/07/2026
Growing Up at Appleby Castle: A 1976 Summer Diary from Cumbria
Jonathan Vernon
19/07/2026
The Bedroom Above the Kitchen: Memory, Identity and Teenage Escape in 1976 Gosforth
Jonathan Vernon
18/07/2026
Northumberland Baths, Mark Spitz and Being Last in the Lane: A 1976 Diary Reflection
Jonathan Vernon
17/07/2026
The Train Home from Army Camp: School Uniforms, Cigarettes and the Montreal Olympics
Jonathan Vernon
16/07/2026
Okehampton Camp and Bideford Fording Tanks: Army Life Through a 14-Year-Old’s Eyes
Jonathan Vernon
10/07/2026
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss: ADHD, Career Change and Finding My Place
Jonathan Vernon
08/07/2026
Failure, Freedom and Departure: A Teen Diary from Winder House, 50 Years On
Jonathan Vernon
07/07/2026
History Was Mint, English Wasn’t: A Teen Diary from Sedbergh School, June 1976
Jonathan Vernon
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