19 JULY 1969, page 10

Television

I switch off STUART HOOD Paradoxically one of the most cheering pieces of intelligence I have picked up rec- ently is that there are indications of a fall in television viewing......

Personal Column

Reflections on a missing link SELWYN LLOYD My great-grandfather was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, who began his ministry as a probationer in 1826 at Caernarvon. My grandfather......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator'. 17 July 1869—The Prince of Wales, on Tuesday, laid the first stone of a new orphanage at Watford, Hertfordshire, whither the Clapton Orphanage, now sixty......