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That's right Ray. It was quite scary for a young lad. I sure my parents wouldn't have taken me with them if they had known but maybe they had no choice. I have seen copies for sale on ebay but the condition sounds a bit iffy. I have found a link on You Tube which claims to be the whole film but...

Did any one see the film 'No Room at the Inn' 1948. I was taken to see it with my parents and has stuck in my mind since then. An early kitchen sink drama but it reflected the life of many friends I grew up with. Probably sowed the seeds in me for a taste for good drama.

Many thanks Raga. I was stunned to see my sister Rene. I have a programme somewhere for the pageant and I have a picture of Rene as Queen Victoria but had never associated the two. Rene would have been eleven or twelve at the time. I am going to see her in a couple of weeks for her...

There is a Magdelene Street in Cambridge too, also a Silver Street. As I understand in those were common names for what we know as red light districts

On the tube near Kensington looking at this; terrific

Just some random notes. My grandmother was bombed out in the war and moved to Bevington Road, I am afraid that I don't have the number, nor any numbers for these anecdotes. Her name then would have been Ridding. In the fifties and following for about twenty odd years, my brother lived there; his...

I remember Libby's well, I often visited there from school at lunchtime. I bought Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line 78. Later when I finished my Saturday job as a bread delivery boy on a van for Bradfords, still at school, I spent some of my wages there on Bill Haley's Razzle Dazzle 78.

Just to follow up from Astonian #385. Predating beatniks in who appeared in the mid fifties, we had beauxs - a slight change of spelling but short for bohemians. They frequented Birmingham central pubs like the Trocadaro and the Windsor, coffee bars like the stage door; they date back to the...

Many thanks Lyn

Lyn, I am puzzled about the map. Where it says Car Park at Burbury Street - where is the school and wasn't there a sweatshop on the corner?

I was born in the 40s and the country was always changing. The fifties were great - rock and roll, teenagers, electronic music, great English artists, Festival of Britain. And then came the 60s - WOW what a great time. Were can I start - fashion, music, art, respect for all genders and ethnic...

Just looked up your old posts. I guess you are thinking abut the Eccles at number 75. That is on the other side of the Street, about 50 houses up from me opposite Paddington Street, where Lyn (Astoness) lived

There were several in the street; Guildford Street was quite a long street, at least a quater of a mile. Which part do you want to know about? I lived at the Farm Street end. Behind our house was a court of 14 houses. As far as I remember the party was planned to be in the courtyard but because...

I started with a slate too then moved to a dipping pen. Being a boy I was often making many blots. The result was a slap around the head or a ruler at the back of your legs or across the hand in front of the class. If the problem persisted, as it did with me, as a boy, you were made to sit next...

No, it is the Girls Training Corps. The Girls Venture Corps was formed from the GTC and the Women's Junior Air Corps in 1964. That photo of my sister in the GTC was taken about 1945

Sorry, my picture is of the GTC, the Girls Training Corps

I hadn't realised. My sister was in the GLB but must have moved to something else later. I will phone her and find out what it was. Does any one have any idea?

I think this is who you mean. Second row down, third from the right my sister Rene Ingram. Directly below her with the two stripes, her friend Peggy. I would guess taken in the mid 40s

This is from 1917/18, my dad seated left (Royal Engineers Signals Corps)

Many thanks Barrie I have the rest but it was the number of the company that I couldn't locate. I also know that he served with Captain Herman Charles Hannam-Clark as his batman