The Masthead

Retro Metro magazine (ISSN: 1753-6783) is published by
CL Leavey & Co, based in the rolling hills of the wild
and woolly Teme Valley, Worcestershire, England.
The magazine is only available online.

Editor: Claire Leavey
Previously editor of Classic Bike Guide, Motorcycle Classics and Practical Crafts magazines, and author of two books, including ‘The Candlemaker’, published by Collins & Brown in 2001.

Featured contributors:

Mrs Elizabeth Raffald
Lizzie Raffald  is author of ‘The Experienced English Housekeeper’, first published in 1769. In service to numerous great families from the age of fifteen, Lizzie has also run a confectioner’s shop and two coaching inns, and raised sixteen daughters. She is founder of Prescott’s Manchester Journal, helped sustain Harrop’s Manchester Mercury, and has also compiled a trade directory of Manchester and Salford. This is sadly now rather out of date.

Johnny Greenfinger
The child of Seventies ‘Good Life’ enthusiasts, Johnny grew up with his hands buried in well-manured clay. This made it hard to get to school twenty miles away, and led to endless detentions when homework was delivered slightly damp and soiled. Johnny produces a variety of organic vegetables and fruit from his two modest plots on a south-facing slope of the Teme Valley, and supplies Lizzie’s kitchen with the majority of its raw materials.

Ron Irway
An occasional contributor to various classic car and bike magazines, Ron is fascinated by human ingenuity in all its various forms.
He is delighted to have the opportunity to explore all his engineering interests, and hopes that Retro Metro readers will
enjoy the trip too!

Norah Docker
Lady Norah and her late husband Sir Bernard were most famous during the 1950s and '60s for their lavish spending and glamorous lifestyle. Sir Bernard headed a giant of British industrialism, the Manganese Bronze consortium, among whose companies were numbered Daimler, Jaguar, BSA Group and Norton-Villiers. Norah is perhaps best known for the series of ‘Golden’ Daimler cars she had produced, supposedly as publicity vehicles, but principally as vehicles for the couple's own use, at the firm’s expense. Now that’s clever shopping! We’ve enlisted Lady Norah’s particular expertise to bring you the best and brightest retro shopping, news and events pages in all the land.

Retro Metro Magazine is published in irregular instalments.
Each article will be free to view online for a limited period, and
once withdrawn, back issues will then be available as high-resolution
PDF downloads from www.claireleavey.com

Please feel free to print or forward material as you like,
as long as this is for private, personal use.

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However: if any material is misused or in any way utilised for commercial purposes without the user first seeking written permission, CL Leavey & Co will mercilessly pursue the infringer of our copyright, and will probably set the dogs on them. Irish Wolfhounds and snappy little terriers, they are, so you don't want to start messing with them …

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We believe that modern living has more to do with the past
than many care to think.

We believe that quality of life has more to do with what you put in
than with what you get out.

We believe that simplicity, integrity, beauty, eco-friendliness and
sustainability are all different names for the same thing.

We believe that food tastes better if you grew and cooked it yourself.

We believe that human ingenuity may have brought the planet to its knees,
but it is still something we should celebrate.

We believe that the past and the future merge at a constantly shifting point.

And that point is now.