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Showing posts with label sporting history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sporting history. Show all posts
Friday, March 18, 2011

The day my grandfather woke up in Australia

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My grandfather Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] once described to me his joy upon arriving in Sydney Harbour on the SS Marathon on Christmas ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

A fight to remember

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Back in the early '80s [before the existence of the Internet], I succeeded in finding this photo of the steamship Marathon , which took ...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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