![]() The twin Foxes on this sign at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, were, I was told, poachers with a remarkable alibi – no one could tell them apart.Īpparently during the last century the twins led almost identical lives. Titled ‘Double Trouble’ and from ‘B.D.R.’ of London, S.W.5., the photograph accompanying the letter shows the ‘Twin Foxes’ not two of the same animal but identical twin brothers, the apparently infamous Albert Ebenezer and Ebenezer Albert Fox. In amongst the ‘Yours etc… Letters and Pictures to the Editor’ section I found the following letter. ![]() Thus it was that, back in 2008, I was rifling through a packet of old documents I acquired, initially only to secure an ancient darts rule book, when I came across a cutting from the newspaper Reveille for the week ending 6th March 1971. ![]() Inspiration for the pieces I have written over the years for the PHS Newsletter often arrives via an odd cutting found amongst a collection of old papers that I purchased or found wedged between the pages of an ageing pub tome bought from one of the numerous (but sadly rapidly reducing) second-hand bookshops I visit on my travels every year. ![]()
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