10. LATEST REVIEWS

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Talked Shop with Bazalgette.

Jackpot Hawkins, Neath, Wales. Experienced our Meet Joseph Bazalgette in Deptford in 1864.

As an engineering student it has always been my dream to meet the man who gave London its sewage system and saved the capital from The Great Stink.

The experience considerably helped my dissertation being able to speak to the great man himself. Initially, I was so overawed that I talked gibberish, but Joe put me at my ease by saying with a smile that lurked beneath his impressive bushy moustache that in his line of business he was used to people talking crap.

Thank you Route 1066.

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No Show

Yvonne of Slough who experienced Have A Ringside Seat to Watch The Magna Carta Being Signed.

The sounds and particularly the smells of 1215 will remain with me always, wish I had a better detergent but there we go. But the rest was a washout.

The momentous occasion was completely ruined by someone in our party shouting out as King John was about to sign the Magna Carta: ‘Wouldn’t it be best to get your agent to look over it first!’ Whereupon, King J pondered for a while then upped and walked off without putting quil to paper.

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Bases Loaded!

Terry Medway, Los Angeles. Verified Experience of Watch Baseball at Comiskey Park, Chicago Sat Alongside Al Capone in 1929.

I kept having to pinch myself. I was sat next to the great Al Capone. The baseball took a back seat, though it was a close game that seen the White Sox triumph over the Red Sox. But just knowing that the guy next to me could have my legs broken or order me killed if the whim took him as easily as ordering a cheese burger was exhilarating.

I thought I had made a boo-boo when I told Big Al that we could do with someone with his ruthless, uncompromising approach to shake up the business I’m in, the cosmetics business. The notorious gangster asked me if there was money to be made there and I told him that it had made me a few million bucks. He looked real interested and said that he might give it a whirl and produce a product called The Saint Valentine’s Day Mascara.

Think old scarface was joking but hope I haven’t changed the course of history with my slip up. At least I avoided advising Al to get a better accountant, anyway.

Great day capped when Al called for a baseball bat from his adoring acolytes in the crowd and I thought he was going to smash my brains out but instead signed it and presented it to me. Classy guy.