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Also one of these, at around the same time. The Postal Orders and other bits of paper were especially interesting!

One of my favourites was a toy telephone exchange. Can't remember the year, maybe early '60s?

Thank you!

No, don't worry, you haven't! I think I've seen clips from it at various times; certainly Bette Davis doing "I've Written a Letter to Daddy."

This picture was on Twitter today: Town centre, looking down Albert Street. The building on the right with the rounded frontage was always interesting becasue of its shape, and the decorative top part. I can't remember if it was a carpet shop in the late 1960s, which is when my memories start...

We've also been watching it and found it very entertaining. (They were two of my father's favourite actresses). I've been reading a bit about Joan Crawford, who was very troubled and contradictory, even more so than is shown in the series, perhaps. We also recorded the film, but haven't seen it...

Thanks! It's strange how things stick in your mind. I haven't been able to find out anything about Leslie M. Oyler.

I can't remember exactly what they were like, but I did like them!

Anyone remember something called Coffee Crisp? I googled it, and apparently it's made in Canada, and not available here. Is it the same thing? I'm not sure. It seems to be a wafery type of thing. Also there was Bliss, which was nuts in a kind of marshmallow covered in chocolate, and Nux, which...

Fry's Five Centres, I think, which I used to like. You can get get some of these old-fashioned sweets from places online. (I bought some white chocolate mice - they were horrible!)

Coffee creme is my favourite centre in any box!

It is a good photo. I lived in Witton Street, and it was part of my "landscape." It's weird to think of it having a boxing ring. The little shop next door was Rene's when I lived there, and I think later it became a small supermarket. The bus stop was just outside.

A relative who was a child in the 1930s had one of these Billy Bouncer books, I think not this one, though am not sure. Decades later I read it, and remember a story where Billy and his companions had an adventure that involved a golden box that looked like a jewelled Bath bun. I wondered if...

So we won't see him in Parliament, which would be fun.

Full of surprises. Arthur had no sign of a wound!!

Womans Hour today has an item about the influence of the series on fashion. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hp2zy

My husband said they looked like boots. They seemed to be black! Partridges do seem likely. Often used to go to Packwood House, well, I went several times in the past. I think I remember a large hall with a sort of split staircase, one branch coming down either side. And of course the topiary.

What was Tommy cooking over the fire? A brace of pigeons?

This photo of Lewis's in 1970 was on Twitter today.

Also used to go there quite a bit in the '70s. My friend Angela was fond of a drink called a vodkatini, which another friend used to say was like herbal shampoo!