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Did anyone see this, a series that started this week? They're using a school in Coventry, and the pupils and teachers are from the midlands. A bit of it was filmed at the Black Country Museum. It began in the 1890s with a class of fifteen! Surely fifty would have been more accurate, but harder...

Oh yes, the perfume department! It was where I bought my first bottle of Guerlain's Jicky. Never investigated the wedding dress dept. Was it on a special floor? At one time (1980s?) didn't they have a sort of ladies' club, where you could go and sit down or write a letter? I think it was...

Rackhams Christmas toy fair used to have some good displays.

The book of the week on Radio 4 this week has been Sylvia Plath's letters. It reminded me of the time Mr Hedley brought in a record of Plath reading her poems. This would have been in the late 1960s.

We also took a radio with us in the car, an A40. We had a rather nice picnic set which included a spirit stove and a kettle with a bamboo handle, and I can still remember the smell. Tomato sandwiches used to feature! The picnic set was left in a garage and the case rotted. Dad was a bit upset as...

I isten to Radio 4 a lot.

I don't think I had any quite like that, though was always measured with the intriguing ruler on a stool thing (don't know what they're called!)

How empty the street is, Viv!

Purple liquid - Permanganate of Potash?

Pupils have to be silent in the corridors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45931847 I can remember prefects standing down the middle of corridors to make sure that there were no collisions when people were changing classes (and later doing it as a prefect), but I'm not sure if...

This was my library, with in the 1960s anyway, a swimming pool behind it. I remember both very clearly.

I don't think so, Dave, but am not sure. I think it was a round building. My mother used to work in the kitchen of Merstone School, which was for children with special needs, and that moved some time ago. There are houses where it used to be.

Speaking of pubs, there was one where we used to live called The Friendly Inn that became a care home years ago, keeping the name. There was also one that became a school or residential home for boys with behavioural problems, and then became a care home. Can't remember the name of that one.

The 161 and 171 are the ones we used (I think that's right, long time ago), but of course in a different area.

I remember Cyclops.

I also remember the dog with "eyes as big as saucers"! Was it in The Tinder Box??

Watched this last night - thanks for the tip!

Yes, his reputation isn't that great.

Apparently some House of Fraser stores will be saved now, but no one knows which.

I don't know any details, but Carolyn Jones (Sharon) has died. She was recently in The Archers.