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He died a couple of days ago and the reason I'm mentioning it is that he played Hamlet at the Rep in 1969 and was apparently very good. (I didn't see it and rather wish I had but saw the revival with Alec McCowen).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028q8y/influential-with-katty-kay-series-3-derek-jacobi It's a short interview and he says a little about his time at the Rep in the 1960s.

Fabulous. You don't often hear the word 'dainty' these days!

One of the items was a clocking-in clock from a factory in Birmingham that manufactured street lighting. The name was Crawford. Another was a bicycle used for bicycle polo, brought in by members of (unless I misheard) the Solihull Bicycle Polo Club.

Thank you, that's brilliant. We've become slightly obsessed! And Polish Dancing Party is a perfect description :-)

Thanks, Pedrocut.

Thank you, Eric and Donbogen.

My husband found this record in a charity shop, and it has very little information, no date, for instance. There is nothing about it on Discogs but the label is Pathe and it sounds like a recording from the 1950s or 1960s. Any advice on how to find out something about it, the artists on it, etc...

Thanks for these. What a lot went on!

I had some Chad Valley toys and think that one of them was a tricycle. I can't remember the toy department but I was taken to see Father Christmas there. I mentioned this thread to my husband, who said he thought he had some kind of game from Chad Valley, and pointed out that my tricycle would...

And they're all wearing sensible shoes!

I knew that Harrods had a bank, so shouldn't really have been surprised that Lewis's did. Thanks for all the information.

Thank you!

I didn't know that Lewis's had a bank!

My father passed the exam for grammar school (so long ago that I don't know if it was called the 11-plus at that time), but his grandparents who brought him up couldn't afford it. It struck me as very unfair. But who knows...