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With the demise of public toilets, our phone boxes seem to have devolved to pissoires.

Hit repeatedly ? Pound.

Shame about the old Kingsway. Made a nice change from our usual haunts, the Maypole and the Tudor.

Mine was brown too. God, that was a long time ago !

Same here !

Is that the Bugatti badge ?

Something I'd forgotten. Remember the Giles cartoons ? I think they were in the Daily Express. Very funny.

"Antiques Roadshow" is an absolute must for me. They've just started a dramatised version of "Les Miserables" (no singing, yaaay !) and the first episode showed promised. They showed a clip of Billy Connolly doing his "incontinence pants" sketch the other night. I hurt myself laughing, again...

I've just noticed, the guard in the first of these photos is wearing Service Dress and their collar badges look like the Grenade that the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery wear. I wonder if we're looking at an Anti-Aircraft site ?

Brilliant ! I'd never seen that before. I've just googled Norman, he had a hell of a life in his early days. Imagine, he was an Army boxing champion in India.

"Big in Albania" ? Blimey, he was only about five foot tall !

Sorry, I missed the Oswestry reference in the caption. Oswestry, probably Park Hall camp, was a Royal Artillery training camp, into the 60s. The marquees and the duckboards in the picture, suggest a temporary camp at that time.

lnteresting to see the old Soyez cookers in the middle photo, in my time in the Army they were used to provide us with shaving water on exercise in the sub-zero German winter but I think they cooked stew from the Boer War onwards . The photo of men registering reminds me that my Dad was one of...

People were inclined to dump unwanted stuff in these old wartime constructions, I recall ! Looking at the narrowness of the aperture in this one, there wouldn't have been much scope for defensive fire from it. It looks like it would've been used for observation. Amazing that it's still...

What, no Norman Wisdom Dave ? I bet the Television Toppers or the Tiller Girls would've been on there too !

For a period of my Army service, I was in the QOH. 4th Tanks then were called "The 4th Jocks", and they were proud of it.

Now I'm an old croaker the only badge I wear on my lapel is my Veteran's Badge. When I was a kid I used to read a comic called the Lion and as a member of their club I had a Lion badge to wear. My mate used to read the Eagle comic and he wore a Eagle badge, (I was dead jealous !).

The item in the last photo, (the one being held), looks very like a badly corroded round of ammunition to to me, possibly 20mm. It doesn't look like it has been fired either !