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Postie, Having just read 'ALL ABOARD THE 53' I was transported back to my childhood and teenage years. The Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Hall' we called the YWCA. Opposite the bus terminus was a day nursery. My father used to patronise the Richmond PH and play bowls there. Before moving to Stechford we...

The 'off duty' clothes the nurses wear in the Midwife porgramme on TV are so feminine - fullish skirts with unpressed pleats, a blouse and a cardigan. As it was the 50s mini skirts had not come in. I remember my mother wearing clothes of this type in the 1950s. A retro fashion shop has opened...

Thanks for the picture of the lido at Stechford baths. It is how I remember it too. It is where I learnt to swim as I failed miserably when we were taken to Woodcock Street baths with the school.

Thank you so much for that link Carolina. It is much appreciated. batmadviv[QUOTE=carolina;446921]Have a look here https://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/billybean.htm

Wasn't Sparky's Magic piano on the radio on Children's Favourites? Uncle Mac introduced it. Someone always seemed to write in for the Vienna Boys Choir singing 'I love to go a wandering'. batmadviv

Having a ventriloquist on the radio just proves that the pictures on the radio are so much better than on a screen. Round the Horne is still one of my favourites on Radio 4 Extra and CDs can stil be bought from the BBC web site. Batmadviv

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do. He built it out of sticks and stones, nuts and bolts and glue. The motor sang 'Chuckle a bang'......................... .......................................................................... And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the...

I was told that it stopped the tea towel getting black marks on it from the old town gas that left smoky marks on the pots and pans.

I was told that putting bicarb in greens destroys the vitamin C but makes the green a very bright colour.

The 50s may be the forgotten decade by some but not me. The fashions were lovely; full skirts with pretty fabrics as seen on 'Call the Midwife'. The 50s styles are so popular there is a new 'vintage style' shop in Solihull. There are several pages on the web devoted to 50s fashions. The Light...

We used to say, 'Eeny meeny mackeracker, dare eye dummeracker, chick a lacker lollipop, a rumpum push.' If 'push' was you, you were out, or not in or it.

Wood smoke from the campfire and cooking fire at Guide camp.

What a lovely picture Lyn. Did the shop in the right become the Irish Linen shop? I remember one of that name in the 1960s.

Thanks sistersue61 for such super pictures. Although I never went inside the old Corpus Christi church I used to walk past the outside frequently. They are much appreciated.

I disliked swimming lessons with the school and did not learn until I taught myself at Stechford Baths in the Lido when it was new. Even now on the rare occasion that I go swimming I rarely swim more than one arm's length from the hand rail. Cold water and being dive bombed by my boys did not...

I am only on the fifth photo and almost in front of you. A dark haired girl is immediately in front of you and I am immediately on the left of her as we look at the photo. What year did you start at BK?

Astoness, You are brilliant. Well worth the trip to see you. Thanks, Batmadviv

Hi Lyn, I don't have a scanner but could meet you armed with the photograph for you to do the deed. I don't do technical. Typing emails is my limit. Viv

I have a copy of the long photograph but have no means of posting it. I was a first year in 1960 so was in 4th year when the picture was taken. The head girl at that time was called Joy. Miss Birch was my English teacher for one year and I agree that she was brilliant. Batmadviv

As a retired teacher from a comprehensive school I gave thanks almost daily when at work that I went to a girls' grammar school. The academic standard was so much higher as was the behaviour. Not only I thought this but so did colleagues who by coincidence attended the same school as I did but...