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VE-Day 8th May 1945 - Personal memories from 80 years ago. Anyone who has had the remarkable resilience to wade through this thread from years back will already have read what I remember of those memorable days in May 1945, never to be forgotten, or not by me at least. And now we have reached...

Thanks, MWS. Your comment has made me work a bit harder and dig deeper. And, yes, it DOES look as though, if you work at it, you CAN uncover some records which seem to be, at this moment, free. Just don't assume that the search box which comes with the offer - which one might assume to be the...

Thanks for the heads up, Lyn. However – and it may well be just me – this offer seems to be a typical, smart-*rse, marketing ploy which implies much and provides little more than nothing. For me, one or two searches DO provide outline details of a serviceman but, I suspect, nothing more than...

All the best, Mike Chris

Welcome the the Forum, Mike, and thanks for advising us of the loss of a member who previously contributed to the main Collis thread in this section of the Forum. (Thread transferred from the General Discussion section). Chris

As a fourteen-year-old and car-mad, I was convinced that I was looking at JET 1 as it went along New Street near the Odeon. Excitement knew no bounds. The lady I was talking to as we waited for our bus, a friend of my mother's, was a bit non-plussed as I stopped talking and transferred all my...

Happy Birthday, Viv. Chris

The cheapest available at the moment which I've seen is £40 + postage. Abebooks. Chris

I've posted images earlier in this thread showing life at Cropwood between 1951 and 1953. These came from the album of an 11-year-old girl from Woodgate, Marlene Milroy, who was there from 1951, was happy whilst she was there and left in 1953 fully cured of her childhood asthma. With her...

I remember the AA patrolmen well, from the days of interminable day-long journeys on holiday, through the centre of Birmingham and the middle of every other town down the A38 towards South Devon. That was mainly from 1945 and for a year or three later. (I was too young to remember the same...

Morturn, when you say mid-18th c, did you mean that, rather than mid-19th? Not necessarily doubting it, just checking..... Chris

All the very best, Eric! Chris

I should be very interested to hear any further information you have about that particular family. They were neighbours of ours although I barely knew them. Nevertheless, I have one or two fragments of information about them. Chris

I don't know how unusual a surname that is, but a family of that name lived in Streetly in the 1930s and 1940s. Chris

Thanks, Mike. It would certainly not have been sport-related for me. That was on Wednesday afternoons. And nothing representative for boys of that age, eight/nine-eleven. Chris