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Thanks all, that will save from going for the free trial and falling into the auto renewal trap. :)

Having a go this morning on ancestry I had a hint saying 'crime' on one of my ancestors but it takes me to newspapers.com and asks me to sign up for a subscription, not sure if I want to do that or if it's worth it or just a 'catch penny' Anybody already on who could take a peep please? Phoebe...

One of my mom's uncles was a lamplighter.

I thought you were going to say the lower was an opinion on the advertiser above. :)

All that poultry hanging outside makes me wonder how people survived without getting food poisoning, even inside my shop with a chill cabinet we had to be very careful of blow flies dropping their eggs on any unwrapped meats, maggots develop very quickly.

This is dad's clock, I think the horse on top got damaged when we were kids so he re-made and re-fitted it.

Dad made a large Loco for my younger brother, I remember watching him roll out the tinplate and soldering on the chimney and all the joints, making the axles and fitting the heavy duty wheels and tyres, then painting it red with gold lines, it was pretty indestructible and might be still around...

My dad's clock is similar, doesn't work now although it did until a year ago, local clock repairer asked for over £300 to fix it.

I've still got the boot brushes I was issued with when I was called up for National Service in 1953. Still got my army number inked on them.

Had kind eyes.

When my daughter phoned today she asked how big the chocolate bar was because she couldn't tell from the picture when she ordered it, I got a "Oh my god!" when I told her it was just a bit bigger than my computer keyboard. :)

Thanks folks, among the gifts from my daughter I have the biggest bar of Cadbury's chocolate I've ever seen. It's tomorrow by the way, the 3rd.;)

I'm sure I used to pass a factory of theirs on the bus somewhere in or around Perry Bar.

We had one here in the Forest, I used to get up early to greet the baker bringing the shop stock Saturday morning, heard the bang and everything shook, the explosion was about half a mile away, a stone cottage completely flattened and all its occupants killed. It was assumed that one of the...

When we were children we had a Walker family as near neighbours in Hurlingham Road Kingstanding, , would be around number 109, many of the tenants there were, like my parents, moved in from Aston when the new houses were first occupied.. can't help with any more than that. Just a thought, they...

Buntings was an Austin agent when I worked at Beeches Garage in the early sixties, my boss John Maybury fell out with BMC at the time and turned to Toyota, BMC then awarded Buntings the agency but not long after Buntings closed altogether.

With Ancestry free trials you have to be aware of their automatic renewal trap.

We had a upright piano when we were kids, dad played it occasionally 'by ear' mom took lessons but never really mastered it. My friend here in the Forest learned to play when she was a child, got a music degree and played the church organ too, for many years, her dad bought her a baby grand when...

Any of that still there or was it swept away in the redevelopment?

I think that's where I heard it Pedro.................strange thing memory.:)