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Cricket is a bit like the Church of England, once they start tinkering with it, to give it a more 'populist' appeal, they ruin it! However, 'village' cricket, as with village churches, is still going strong. As us older one's know, cricket is a way of life, and not just a game!

Astonian - never a truer word said!

I'll look out for that one Bernard, ta!

Damn! I'd counted out my pennies and was just about to learn all of the verses to ''Summer Holiday''!

Thanks Mike, well worth the reading!

Good stuff, thank you!

Thank you Dennis, and David too, a truly fascinating insight into the very origins, and inter-relationships of the Industrial Revolution. I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of it!

sarunte43 .... a wonderful photograph, thank you!

Beebee families used to live in and around Walsall area.

David, all that heavy lifting must have stretched your arms ....... are you sure they weren't calling you 'orang-orang' ???

Daisy May's dog used to say ''drop-dead'' in a very posh accent; and Lord Charles' famous ''you silly a**e!'' Jimmy Clitheroe as the 'Clitheroe Kid': Ooo flippin' heck!'' & ''Don't some mothers 'ave 'em! '' Archie Andrews: ''I say Brough!''

Mmmm fagots n' pays and thick, rich gravy!

I always had promblems waking in the morning, so Mom frequently called me Lazarus. (Lazarus was raised from the dead, remember) Mind you, she often called me Rastus too, I don't know what that was about! As a toddler, I was refered to, by my father, as the 'Chickelpunckler' ... I never much...

How beautiful and tranqil Handsworth once looked!

I suppose, in the aftermath of battle, one dead body looks much like another, even supposing there be much of a body left! After all, who is to make a list, if all are fallen? I'm not sure of the Laws of Copyright and those of an authors' 'royalties' (well, he was a Parliamentarian...

Very 'atmospheric'!

Thylacine ... could he have disappeared during the chaos of the second, or third sections of the Civil War? It seems highly possible that a young gunnery expert might have been killed during that period. The later editions of his work might have made his publisher a bit of money, with no...

More please Anne .... keep them coming!

Thanks for the pics, especially the black and white ones, more or less how I remember it from the 1950's.

Thanks yet again you two, fascinating stuff!