It wasn't fair; it wasn't jolly well fair; it wasn't bleeding well fair. Edward Pilgrim, like any victim of perceived injustice, could not let the thing go. He had written to the town council, to the newspapers, the Home Secretary, the Prime Minister, and the Queen, to protest "the unfairness and unjust predicament one of her British subjects has been forced into," but he received no satisfaction. He spent the two days before September 26th, 1954 "wandering about looking at that land" - then ...
Published on September 25, 2009 10:05