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It's inevitable that charges will apply to every type of vehicle, I've not paid any road tax since 2007 as I have had 2 Hybrids and just beat the as yet unannounced 2017 deadline when I bought a new Gen 4 Prius in 2016

------------------ I definitely had no medical and I'm fairly sure I was only aged 11 as well

I had a paper round in Weoley Castle in the 1950's, it lasted one or 2 days. My friend had a paper round where all the papers had the road number written in the corner, so for example Gregory Avenue would have GA23 scribbled on. So I go to a different newsagent and what do I get? a big...

I moved to Oxley grove around 1954 aged 8, I went to Princethorpe and was happy there but Ilmington was dreadful. While at Princethorpe I and several more kids caught food poisoning and I lost 8 weeks off school, it was traced to contaminated dolly mixtures from Fawkes shop

Thank you all for your kind messages, I was away at Chester zoo yesterday and didn't see this thread till just now

Oh no,:oops: I have been away to Chester and got back yesterday afternoon and one of my many emails was for this thread so I just clicked it and added a comment but not looked elsewhere yet , will do so now

It's for when you send a message via snail mail :D a slug is a homeless snail

The huge flower of Amorphophallus Konjac, a relative of the giant Titan Arum that rarely flowers at Kew. I have grown this from a tiny tuber which has now grown to 6" across, I dig it up in the Autumn before the first frosts and overwinter the tuber in our veranda

adding a photo is fairly easy, just click the picture symbol you see between the paperclip and smiley face you see above when making a post then click to add a photo or drag one into the box that appears

-------------- yes, we sat there in our painters overalls and watched it, a female 007 type film if I remember, then we went back to work and the others said where have you two been then?

I remember working on Erdington High street in 1966, we were refitting a butchers shop, probably a Dewhurst and 2 of us crept out and went down to the cinema in our overalls and watched a film called Modesty Blaise :joy:

In the 1950's I had the Escalado game where you clamped a ratchet thing to one end of the table and pulled a canvas race track out and clamped the end of it. It worked by turning a handle which vibrated the track and made the horses move along. I think the horses were made of lead but later...

Hard to tell the date, note there are no Horses visible either but the vehicles look early. The omnibus must be really early though, 1915?, the driver cab is open to the weather and presumably originally a bus with no roof either but since has had one added. I wonder if you could even stand up...

I paid around £60 for mine but as I collect coins it was a must for me and I was amazed at the worldwide output of the mint

--- The book is a fascinating read for sure, it might tempt you to start collecting coins ! A page example below

Edwardian lady, thread title says Elizabethan o_O My wife had the book years ago, lovely illustrations in it

Here's a photo I've not seen before showing the trams in 1926

Because it doesn't affect everyone does it, it works normally for me with no problems whatsoever so it's clearly individual settings on some members PC or phone. You just discovered it's your add blocker, nuff sed :p

I guess you know you can instantly zoom in and out by holding the Cntrl key and scrolling the mouse wheel?

It's usually suggested to clear the browser cache, Press the keys [Ctrl], [Shift] and [Del]. Be sure you press all the keys at once. and then you get this page where you can select to clear data, for time range select 7 days or maybe 4 weeks