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I liked the milk actually, I often helped myself to a second bottle at lunchtime if there were still some in the crates by the hallway...

It seems that was what uncles were for, my dad's youngest brother taught me the basics, of photography and eventually I converted the...

Me too, those old chemist shops were so interesting to kids like me too. They were proper laboratory's with lots if glass and coloured...

2 Milk monitors were picked every Monday i recall going out in the snow to bring the metal creates in they was covered in snow we...

In Gloucestershire where I grew up, the 1/3 pint mil bottles came with foil tops, right from the early 60s. Maybe we were ahead of...

Yes - I think the term “Old Moat House” really refers to the moated manor/farmstead at Moat Farm which stood near St Laurence Church...

Both maps above mark the Old Rectory and it's shown below in the 1920s along with two passing gents who remind me of Vladimir & Estragon...

Yes! It was the Cedar Club.

Brookes saddles was a world famous maker of bike saddles. I had a few bikes with their saddle. The other thing I remember was there was...

Thanks, that's what I thought. It's a case of 'known as'. I grew up in West Bromwich and my parents always referred to it as Hockley...

At the age of 16+ my family decided that we would move to Devon. For a period of six weeks I was drafted to Stoke-on-Trent, I presumed...

Yes there was an excitement about picking up your chemist developed photos. And of course it came with some disappointment. And you'd...

A time when photography was tremendously exciting, interesting and rewarding. Waiting for your transparencies or print films to be...

corner of victoria square and colmore row..some nice inside shots lyn

No, I don't remember any milk bottles with cardboard tops from my school days.