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Corona a beer from Mexico a popular import here in the States . Nothing like a orange aide or dandilion and burdock or even R Whites lemonade or Tizor.

Sorry Dave missed the post, the answer to both questions is no but send a pm as I am interested in another Ensor cheers Bob.

That would be wonderful, of course they would get the third degree but to have the story of just the photo and then maybe more,

Love the photo Lyn, but I would love to talk the the three children I bet they have a story to tell. That boy could well be me wishing to be old enough to wear long pants Ha Ha Oddly here I am at home in shorts can not remember the last time I wore long pants.

The " buggers knocked it down " thank you a real expression from my youth made me chuckle and my eyes water.

The smell of some cheese can be off putting, some of it is very pongy indeed

That's strange my pop will not eat cheese after 8 says it gives him headaches in the morning.

There's bought disgusting about a cheese and onion sarnie Ate one in the week wife came home from the store and I was putting the food away and saw the cheese and onion so I made a sandwich lovely

Well that make sense give a child the cane across a hand the very thing needed to hold a pen to write Easier to lash out rather than mentor. Good shot on the stone throw !!!.

Same school Turves Green English teacher would throw his keys at you or walk between the desks and hit you on the head at the very top with the end of a large door key most painful. My first year form master was nicknamed Hitler need I say more Thankfully in the third year it was decided it was...

I recall a math teacher at Turves Green Boys School had a size 17 pump (sneaker) that he used for punishment as you bent over his desk. Harvey was the headmaster there a small man that took pride in giving the cane, he had a selection of them in his closet and you could hear them rattle as he...

Thank you what a lovely post, how fragile life was a little over a hundred years ago

Not my singing ask my wife. One of my favorite songs Dirty Old Town by Roger Whittaker, for some reason just makes me think of Birmingham. I am sure it really is about a town in the north of England.

My mum sold bacon and sausage and pies in a tin and frozen faggots. Sunday was a leg of lamb or roast pork and maybe kidneys on a Saturday with chips and that pretty much sums up our meat intake. I think the cost of meat was a driving force for some of our choices for tea (dinner) beans on toast...

I am sure everyone was not shopping every day or so in a butcher's shop as we all know meat was a real treat. So what were we buying and how often ?.

Was it real saw dust back then ?, I do remember it on the floor but thinking back it was really fine, having made and still make more than my fair share of saw dust it's not all fine.

To have another Christmas dinner with everyone there. On a lighter note that would give my wife chance to use the family silver again along with the crystal glass and the good china.

Brown and mild was my choice also, you always got a little more than a half when the mild was pulled, can not remember what the bottled beer was.

Where to begin ? When I first installed my 8 track player in my mini the store only had a few choices in tapes So I picked out a Carpenter's tape along with a Elton John tape Fell in love with Karen Carpenter's voice and her drum playing, so after almost 50 years I am still in love with the...

Watching a series on the Queen Elizabeth air craft carrier.