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Artificial Intelligence and all that jazz…

Shirley Roberts2 years ago2 years ago03 mins

By Shirley Roberts Do you remember the day when pounds, shillings and pence gave way to decimalisation? Overnight maths lessons changed, and all that learning was confined to history. Do you remember those typing lessons on manual typewriters which gave way to electric and then to computers? Do you remember using Tippex to correct typing…

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The Fiestas of Soller

Shirley Roberts2 years ago2 months ago027 mins

By Shirley Roberts Written by Shirley Roberts in 2025 We are often asked for the dates and outline of all the fiestas in Soller.  Some are planning their holidays around the dates and others want to avoid them.  The Soller Valley fiestas on this list are local and will happen whether there are visitors in…

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Juan March Hospital in Caubet

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago05 mins

By Shirley Roberts with reference to Diario de Mallorca The Joan March hospital is the building in the high distance seen from the Soller Road. It is often called ‘Caubet’ by locals which is the name of the estate where it was built. Caubet was the small village and the hamlet which housed the chapel, the…

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Keep connected with the jungle drums of the Soller Valley Markets…

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago08 mins

By Shirley Roberts on 17th September 2022 A market is a market is a market except when it a Mallorquin market.  At heart they are for local people to see and be seen and to conduct weekly business.  Mobile phones and computers on the go are a feature of life here as everywhere else but…

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A Brief History of the St Philip and St James Anglican Church in Palma

Shirley Roberts3 years ago1 year ago014 mins

Written by Gillian Garden a member of the congregation  – June 2022 The first Anglican congregation in Mallorca was founded in Alcudia in the 1860s by Robert Bateman, the director of a British company draining the marshes there. It did not continue after his death but was restarted in the Terreno area of Palma in…

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Yankees in the Puig Major

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago020 mins

From 1959, Mallorca was in the middle of the Cold War with the construction of an American base on the highest peak of the Sierra de Tramuntana. Antoni Janer Torrens ARA Balears In the Balearic Islands, the scars of the Cold War are still clearly visible. On September 26, 1953, the Madrid Pacts were signed. After founding…

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Before the railway came to town…

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago08 mins

A little nod to Social History by Shirley Roberts Pic of Hampstead houses 2022 Urban planning has immediate and long term effects and changes the course of history for many locations.  If I take you back to the North London which existed before I arrived in the world you would find mansions and servants.  The…

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A few thousand words on Fornalutx in 2022

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago049 mins

By Shirley Roberts and Pics by Gary Lloyd Rees The location under the Puig Mayor and the Alfabia ridge means that nature in all its majesty is evident every which way you turn in Fornalutx . Its cultural heritage lies in its existence, pre the Conquest of Majorca in 1229, of a thriving manufacturing community.  Its…

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All about Deia in 2022

Shirley Roberts3 years ago3 years ago015 mins

By Shirley Roberts The North West coast of Majorca holds many treasures.  From Valldemossa, the coast road to the Port of Soller is a journey of the world.  Take that turn and the delights which Arch Duke Luis Salvador of Austria found here all those years ago remain and have been extended.  The Archduke was…

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Monastic nature at Lluc by Neville James-Davies

Shirley Roberts4 years ago4 years ago010 mins

Nature would have been a big part of their wellbeing as it is to many of us today 2021-11-02 Palma By Neville James-Davies for The Majorca Daily Bulletin Neville James-Davies Jaume II had a son who suffered from asthma, so in 1309, in an attempt to help his son, Jaume II ordered a palace to…

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