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Here is a book that I either won or was given at York Road School in July 1948. I was aged 5 and three quarters at the time. The book is about a group of children who find and observe small animals in the countryside or on a farm.

Yes, and it would also be interesting to know what life was like on the other side. The girls school, which Elf9 attended, was separated from the boys by a six-foot wall, barbed wire and land mines! This particularly applied to the Stratford Road site. Things were a bit more relaxed at Kings...

This superb photograph, first shown by Old Mohawk in the Electric Trams thread #510, shows some of the features of the Stratford Road described by Elf9 in #375 of this thread. This photo must have been taken in about 1936 and therefore predates the trio of us who went to York Road School (Pat...

In the early 1950s the Eagle comic ran a competition for readers to draw an advertisement for Ingersoll watches and win a grand prize. The winner of the over-12 category was Gerald Scarfe, who later became a famous cartoonist. He won a Dan Dare watch, a sweater, shirt and a boomerang. One of the...

Used to read Radio Fun, Film Fun. Knockout, Beano and Dandy. Later, the Eagle. Cowboys were often featured such as Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey and Hopalong Cassidy. PC49 and Harris Tweed also spring to mind but I can't remember which comics they were in.

The redstone building on the right (modern photograph) with sharp triangular roof and ball on top, seems to have been there in 1907. I wonder what it was used for? Stratford Road at that location was certainly at the top of a hill. Up from just opposite Formans Road, flattening off at the Baker...

£8 for pensioners from my local barbers, Monday to Friday. I give a £2 tip to make it up to £10. Saturday is full price for everybody, about £12. We men are very lucky as women could easily pay £40 to £50 but then they might have colouring, styling etc. My barber is also very fast, usually...

Hi Maurice. What do you pay the Greek girl? This leads to the oldest joke in the world: "what's a Grecian Urn?" Answer, "about 10 drachmas a day". It would be Euros, of course, nowadays.

Yes, I think there was an outfit selling lawnmowers on the Stratford road/School road corner. Qualcast?

We're beginning to use the word "staycation" also in the UK. It's being used in two contexts: 1) stay at home and just go away for day trips without an overnight stay, or 2) perhaps more commonly, have a holiday away from home but staying in the UK and not going abroad. Dave.

Decimalisation Day was 15th February 1971. Therefore 50 years ago today. Hope everyone is getting used to the "new" currency. Dave.

The jab usually goes into the upper arm Lyn. Unlike Covid 19 testing where it apparently can be from a number of locations. Dave.

Perhaps worth phoning your surgery again and asking them for some indication as to when your vaccination might take place.

Today at Epsom, having the Astra Zeneca vaccine, there was a 15 minute wait at the end but only if you were driving. Otherwise you could leave the building straight away. Good luck for tomorrow Lyn.

Had the AZ vaccination today at the mass-vaccination centre at Epsom Racecourse, Surrey. Everything seemed to go smoothly. Asked, among other questions, whether I took blood-thinners. Said yes to Clopidogrel, in which case I might get more bruising on the arm. Dave

Hi Viv. Looks as if people couldn't afford a table at this birthday party taken around 1950. Eight of us here guzzling ice cream, on the floor, at a friends house in Sarehole Road, Hall Green. Back Row: Me, Peter Radford, don't know, Rob Austin (it was his party). Front row: John Skinner...

49. The Queen

Suddenly twigged this one, I think. 43. Shane.

16. Gaslight