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Thank you, Eric and Donbogen.

My husband found this record in a charity shop, and it has very little information, no date, for instance. There is nothing about it on Discogs but the label is Pathe and it sounds like a recording from the 1950s or 1960s. Any advice on how to find out something about it, the artists on it, etc...

Thanks for these. What a lot went on!

I had some Chad Valley toys and think that one of them was a tricycle. I can't remember the toy department but I was taken to see Father Christmas there. I mentioned this thread to my husband, who said he thought he had some kind of game from Chad Valley, and pointed out that my tricycle would...

And they're all wearing sensible shoes!

I knew that Harrods had a bank, so shouldn't really have been surprised that Lewis's did. Thanks for all the information.

Thank you!

I didn't know that Lewis's had a bank!

My father passed the exam for grammar school (so long ago that I don't know if it was called the 11-plus at that time), but his grandparents who brought him up couldn't afford it. It struck me as very unfair. But who knows...

They always had names like that in the past! Hilda had previously had a sweet shop, but must have retrained, and re-opened as a salon.

This film from the 1990s about three hair salons in Blackpool is brilliant https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d2pngh It reminded me of Hilda's salon in Small Heath where I used to be taken as a small girl. Are there any salons like this now, with hairdryers with hoods? Such a friendly...

Thank you - I will look for both!

Miss Thompson strikes again. The other day I got a clue in the Guardian quiz entirely thanks to her :) It was to do with a Burns poem.

I didn't know it had a restaurant, but my memories of it are vague.

I think I visited the hostel once as part of training for working in another hostel, and by a strange coincidence it came into my head yesterday. I have a vague memory (it was a long time ago) of being shown one of the bedrooms by a nun. I can't throw any light on the question of haunting, though.

I was telling my husband about these two hospitals today (my nephew was born at Marston Green in the 1960s), and found that MG Hospital has a Facebook page, which I couldn't look at as I'm not on FaceBook, but there could be something helpful there. In the late 1970s I went to MG Hospital for a...

I also remember it.

Thank you, I hope BigAl sees this. It's an interesting document.

This has brought a memory to the surface. My mother used to visit our next door neighbour's mother who lived a bus ride away, and in the school holidays I used to go with her. The elderly lady used to give us what I think must have been Camp coffee with a slice of a particular sponge cake with...

Apologies.