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Ah yes, my old paper round !

Hiya, I estimate that your friend lived around a large grassed area that we called "The Island", it was a big grassed area that we played on, also where we had our bonfires. I'm afraid I can't remember a Cooper family. A mate of mine, Pete Owen, lived at 84, he had an older brother, Tony who I...

Same here, '41 to '57.(Joined the army). Lived at 210.

I've never heard of a left handed SLR but I can see how it would've benefitted southpaws. It was a bit of an upheaval all round for us .303 trained squaddies. As well as learning how to fire the beast, we had to learn a new rifle drill, my right thigh got a battering, coming out of The Present...

I grew up in the Maypole area, 40s - 50s, where did you live?

On the subject of futile jobs in the forces. Newly posted to Rhyl, my mate & I fell foul of a member of the training staff and had to report to him after our evening meal. Taking us to a pile of coke, about 5 feet high, he said, "Right, move that lot over there, sweep where it was and report...

The building looks like one of those big houses that the War Office commandeered and was probably used as a Battalion headquarters. Your grandad and his mates were probably billeted nearby.

Thanks, perhaps the camera angle confused me !

With all due respect to the original question, what is that car, left of the picture ?

I agree, although I have no knowledge of the place it looks like other pictures of Happy Valley that I have seen.

In the ATTIC ? Blimey, no wonder you needed Thermogene up your vest ! My Dad's old Home Guard greatcoat was enough for us.

This picture takes me back to the late 40s/early 50s. My Dad was a martyr to lumbago in those days and there was allways a box of Thermogene around the house.

Mr Flavell was my teacher in the third year at WL Sec Mod. He used to cane us mercilessly but nevertheless was a good teacher. I must be a couple of years older than you Roger, as I knew Jean Cresswell when she was at the Junior School. I think she lived in one of those houses with the long...

I was a proud member of that library in the early 50s. I never knew it was called The Carnegie Library though. I don't remember that building to the right, would it have been railway connected I wonder ?

I hope that was a buckshee pair, you would never march in them !

REME, I reckon.

"Putu" is the sound you make as you spit it out !

"Duck" I remember it was in use when I was a junior Brummie. However Stoke use it a lot.

Waitrose sell it !

A couple of additions, if I may....... "I've seen more meat on a chicken's lip". "I've seen more meat on a bone handled knife". One I always thought cruel, calling a skinny girl "Sparralegs".