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Can’t guarantee accuracy on the car parks, but I’ll have a go.

The car outside Princess Chambers is a 1966 Austin Westminster A110 Mk2, in what looks like basic trim. The MDT registration is from the County Borough of Doncaster, it may be a police special, (or ex-police) due to the scarcity of chrome strips and wheel trims.

Picture #415. That’s not just any old Cortina Steve, it’s a 1600E. Nice!

As an inland sailor who occasionally tends to capsize, I must add that the efforts that have been made, probably since the 1960s, to clean up inland waters of all kinds are greatly appreciated. One of the things that helps is to share a water with a fishing club, the aim of most of the users is...

Following up on Senoraruz, the conversation around our family was:- “Where’s the whatnot gone?” ”It’s ’angin’ up, on the floor, be’ind the jug!”

I know this is misplaced, but it fits in with the first line of Nico’s post above.

I had a Royal Enfield tourer with a Sturmey Archer hub gear in the back wheel. It never gave any problems, but why did they have that annoying tick-tick-tick?

The version we had was “What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?” Which perhaps makes it a bit clearer. Anything that could make my hair curl would be better than good! It would need to find it first.

That’s really weird! The cherry rhyme was a favourite of both my maternal grandfather, born Werrington 1889, and my father-in-law, born Stafford, 1918.

This is now, that was then! Plus it was my in-laws! https://checkmypostcode.uk/st52qj#.YCbDoi3fUgo

My m-i-l was born in Newcastle in 1920, and grew up in the Westlands. They would think Rosemary Hill Road was a bit down market!

I have just been in the kitchen fettling the remains of yesterday’s stew into a mug of soup for a drink this morning. Won’t need a piece to accompany it as it’s got some lumps in, just the liquidiser to smooth it out a bit. A saying of my mother in law’s came into my head, if anyone pushed away...

Maurice, there is a Lombardo version, taken too slowly imo, and a version by Jock McDermott which has the worst vocal imaginable, so don’t bother searching! Buried amongst my cassettes I have a quickstep instrumental version, but I don’t know whose band it was, although I suspect Whiteman...

Not sure if this link works, but an almost completely forgotten song from Jack Hylton, “Singing a song to the Stars”. There are very few recordings available on the internet, but this is a good one.

In the style of the Temperance Seven, but different. And we must not forget The Alberts.

Another memory awakened, the smallpox scare. I had a Saturday job at a local butcher’s shop. The lady assistant in the shop was chatting to a customer who said “have you had the smallpox thing?” The reply, “Yes, it’s just like scoring pork!”

Quite right, they seemed like knitting needles to our 5 to 7 year old eyes! I recall quite clearly a steriliser using boiling water in the corner of the room, and glass syringes like garden sprayers. Whenever we got rounded up by the nuns and marched off to the clinic round the corner there was...

Finally, for a while, I think, Bennie Loban and his Music Weavers/Bob and Alf Pearson (Sterno 598)

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Especially the way that Denny Dennis puts them over.