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We went to Rhyl at least once, but I don't remember it, being only a little dot at the time. We must have gone by train. We stayed with a Mrs Jenkins (I've been told this) and you bought food for meals and gave it to her to cook.

Steven Knight is on The Media Show on Radio 4 at 4.30 today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008nzr

There was something about this on Broadcasting House this morning. Helen McCrory's dialect coach was on, in the context of getting an American to speak Wolverhampton (!)

I felt it had lost its way a bit, but perhaps it will improve as it goes on. It did seem fractured.

They serve it at Just Desserts on the Moseley Road: https://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-just-desserts-birmingham/menu#cat11 It's quite a long way down the menu.

Saw this on the BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-49278439

I only said might :) !

I think we might find them a bit sickly now, though!

The cakes are mentioned in Barbara Vine's 1998 novel The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. The narrator says that they had just come back into the shops after a forty years' absence. Assuming the novel is set in the late 1990s, does this sound right?

A suit and tie on the beach - hard to imagine now! Perhaps it was a bit chilly that day. It's a nice photo, with everyone looking cheerful. I know that my sister was stung by a jellyfish at either Rhyll or Llandudno, but don't remember it. I wonder how our parents chose guest houses and what...

Me too!! I'm not sure if you can still get it.

There's a bit about her here and a picture: https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/angela-rippon-and-female-firsts/

I think we used to buy the pineapple tarts from Wimbush.

I think I've seen these in Waitrose, but can't be sure. What I have seen there are blackcurrant tarts (Auntie used to buy them from M& S in the 60s and 70s), which were a layer of blackcurrant on the tart base, then a small circle of sponge on top, which was surrounded by butter cream, or some...

It's on Talking Pictures TV at 7.00. p.m. today (probably at other times as well). It's about the annual Road Patrol and lasts 15 minutes.

Thanks, Rosie, I'll take a look!

I probably am. Glad it wasn't demolished.

I remember the loggia (if that's the right word), the long stone building. Was it simply knocked down? I suppose it must have been.

For some reason, these sweets came into my mind yesterday. But I can't remember what they were like - soft, I suppose.

I think the Bristol Lewis's had a roof garden.