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Yeh Good memories, I don't think I ever heard anyone complain about them even though they existed long after there due by date.

ken Fern was a great mate of mine we also worker together and went to Motor racing and ice skating, also John Dunn who lived a few door's away from Ken, I am still in contact with John who I met up with again a few years ago when I was visiting my sister in the UK

Hi OldMohawk, looking back at one of your old photos (598566) of the Prefab (city) I was surprised to see so many on one site, I only remember seeing them around parks and a few on an island at the bottom of Warren farm road. I did a bit of Electrical repair work on a few of them which was...

Hi, I also remember the Gas trailers the buses towed also that some cars had large gas bag on there roof, I don't know how that came about unless they were government vehicles as I think petrol was strictly rationed at that time and was also coloured, White for private cars and red for...

Hi Diane I spoke to my sister Brenda on the phone yesterday and she came up with lots of information, One she was a very close friend of your sister Jean, in fact they went to Switzerland together and by all accounts had quite a ball, she also remembers you and your Mother very well also that...

Yep Eric, I also remember the pigs and the sties, also the sheds behind the shop, some with farm machinery in them. My paper round was from the shop along the kingstanding road to Hotspure road then back upto Harringay road and then Stretham grove. Thursdays the big day with all the magazines. Al.

I bilevel the land behind that nursery was part of the old Ryans farm he was the brother of Miss Ryan who that had the post office and paper shop, further along on the opposite side of the road near the Hare and Hounds Pub there were several cottages either side of the P.O. me and my sister used...

Hi Diane, I do remember one of my Sisters friends by the name of Jean Perks or something like that, would that have been your sister? Al.

Thanks for the map. Yes regarding the gap between the houses I believe the builders found it too steep to build on at the time so picked the easy ones, that site was built on in late 60s or early 70s when they used concrete raft instead of footings, they just leveled it out to a gentle slope...

No the 33 bus ran down Warren farm road. The Number 28 bus used to run down Dyas road across Birdbrook road then up to the terminus at Aldridge road and Dyas road. if you got off the Bus at the Terminus turned right you would pass Aldridge road school. then on to the old horns Pub We could see...

My Sisters Brenda and Gertrude and I lived with my Mother and Father at 106 Atlantic road, next to our house there was some waste land known as the dip opposite the Dip there was a right of way through to Kingstanding Road, this was a short cut To and from Cranborne road school and the 29 bus...