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I'm delighted to see your post, Paul, and thanks very much for it. It's only taken three years for someone here to pick up on the original post! Your words are more than welcome. And thank you for providing what is effectively an update to my own earlier scribblings. Whether we shall ever get...

That sounds a nice memento of Home Guard auxiliary service. Does it give any further detail of the unit joined? Or dates? The age range is certainly OK and, just like their male counterparts, women served with ages of between 17 and their 70s, more or less officially. The linked summary of...

Penny - The British Library offers, I believe, the opportunity to have websites archived on a reasonably regular basis. Am not up-to-date on the details but my own staffshomeguard.co.uk website (containing a significant amount of data) is on that list, has certainly been archived several times...

A somewhat belated (sorry) note to update members about the recent get-together at the Bull in memory of Jim/Postie. As most members will know, Jim owned and was responsible for the Forum for more than 15 years and we all owe him a great debt for having taken it over when it was in serious...

Very sorry to learn of your loss, oldbrit. It must be still very raw for you. But just plod on, as I’m sure you are doing. Eventually things DO soften a bit, of course, but it takes time for the bleakness to fade….. Look after yourself and carry on keeping in touch with all your friends here...

All the very best, Eric. Chris

That's all a great shame. I think it's called "progress". Chris

Currently hoping to be there...... Chris

Happy Birthday and have a lovely day, Alberta. Chris

Blimey, it's all USA-based birthdays at the moment! Happy birthday, Richard, and all the very best. Chris

A very happy birthday and all the best, John! Chris

Thanks, Warren. (And thanks to members for bringing this problem to general notice). Chris

Thanks for pointing this out, Mark. With your comment, on top of other helpful reports in this thread, there does seem to be some sort of pattern of change happening at the moment with regard to adverts. I myself have noticed some differences, including the insertion of adverts within a thread...

Gravelly Hill is being half-suggested. The road is certainly sloping away from us as we look at it........... Are there any gradients in Sutton Road? Chris

Thanks, Mike. (If the link provided doesn't work - as it doesn't for me - try this one: https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/united-kingdom/birmingham/events/moor-street-to-the-dardanelles-gallipoli-birmingham-ian-binnie/ ) Chris

Thanks. I hadn't heard of this before but it seems to have been a normal thing for schoolchildren so that they could be identified in case they were separated from parents in an air-raid and and could be reunited. Pretty sure I didn't have one. That might be because we lived on the outskirts of...

Thanks, johnny082. Don't remember the silver tags. Any further information about how and where used, please? Perhaps an image of yours? Chris

On a day this week, 85 years ago, my mother is sitting at our dining room table, in Streetly, pen in hand and ready to write. I can't remember seeing her doing this, because I'm only just four. But I know exactly, from other occasions when I did witness such things, how she would have looked as...

I'm not quite clear precisely what it is which this member is saying he's trying to restore...... Chris

That's an interesting point, devonjim. It's something I think about myself in connection with some of the bits which I write. For example, my VE Day bonfire effort: I'm pretty sure that it DID occur when I say, that is, on the day itself rather than the following day or the weekend. But I can...