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Just using an old thread as a platform, I try to like Ancestry but I find that unless I have personal memory/knowledge of a person I am researching it's just a lucky guess which ancestors you follow up and you can go miles off track so easily, I am not unknown to flick to the FreeBMD site to...
This picture recalls my days learning to pass my driving test with BSM(bring some money) on the corner of JBS and Lower Severn St.
Column change Ford Consul through the junction above out to the Bristol Rd.1959/60.
Enjoying my journey, does anyone know anything about Shustoke Industrial School Fillongley Meriden. My father in law was a 15year old inmate My guess it is some form of remand home, wonderful what you discover!
At KEGS Camp Hill there were detention classes on a Saturday morning in early 1950's but later such classes were organised to be after school. There were inter school sport matches on Saturdays.
At that time I lived in Hadland Rd in the summer when the bands played with the hall windows open I had to listen to the music if I wanted to or not. Remember the Tuesday night film shows, I saw The Dam Busters there around 1955.
I was one of the original pupils at Blakenhale Junior School I'm pretty sure it opened in 1950 prior to that we were taken by coach to a school in Drummond Rd, Bordesley Green. The junior school hall didn't open until some twelve months later. Memories:- Mr Green was caretaker, Mr. Hardingham...
This old thread came to mind recently when I was referred to a hospital consultant who is a baronet, has a forename and a double barrelled family name. I asked how he wanted to be addressed/referred to. His answer was well not "doctor" but Sir Forename or Mr Double-Barrel.ie he wasn't too...
Seems the Co-op is doing away with the divi!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/co-op-to-scrap-loyalty-scheme-rewards-in-days-as-part-of-huge-shake-up/ar-AA1wqpFz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=0556073ed4a1454ca2f01605d4559780&ei=21
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cadbury-s-loses-royal-warrant-for-the-first-time-in-170-years
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cadbury-s-loses-royal-warrant-for-the-first-time-in-170-years/ar-AA1wkii0
Cadbury loses Royal Warrant!
What's the World coming to!
Peasouper memories include guiding traffic around the island outside the tech at Garretts Green and steering a car home sitting with head partly out of front nearside window whilst the owner worked the pedals.
Mentioned this story to a friend who plays regularly at Pype Hayes, it seems that Henry Cotton featured in the opening of the course some ten years earlier.