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So sorry won't be able to make it on Saturday, my car broke down yesterday, waiting for a mobile mechanic to come and have a look at it, may be too expensive to repair, so will have to look round for another car, dread the thought.

The actual Clock Garage is still in business, it is the adjoining property which was a Peugot and used car sales lot for many years that has been demolished.

Hi Viv, re your post No.109 re the Gosta Green, formerly The Pot of Beer, prior to that it was the Holt Arms, adjacent to the Holt Brewery, my grandad was born there on the 3rd July 1876, his grandfather John Raybould was the licencee there for many years. I remember it as The Pot of Beer in...

I didn't get pocket money as such either, but when I was very young I had Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories delivered, I think it was 2d, when I got a bit older I had The Girls' Crystal. I was given the money to go to the pictures, and when the Fair came to the Serpentine I was usually give half a...

Hi Jimbo, thanks for your reply, I do have a sort of reddish tinge to my brown hair. When I was young I was told I was a Strawberry Blonde. If you are still in touch with Jenny & Dudley give them my regards. Sylvia

Jimbo, thanks for your reply, if it is the same Jenny, she worked in the Export Office and started about the same time as me in 1978, she was about 17 years old then. I don't know Roger Brain, but of course it is a long time ago, and things had started to change when Zero took over. I was made...

Podgery, I loved your photo Post 327, it looks as though the children are going to be on a Church Anniversary Service, all the girls in their white dresses and the boys smartly dressed, and most wearing a flower. Has anyone else noticed that in nearly all the photos of the courtyards etc...

Brenda and John, the big bomb site was on the right hand side of Wilkinson Street, when you went up the hill from Upper Webster Street, we used to play up there a lot, I have think perhaps there was a little factory on the site before the bombing, I have posted elsewhere that we found a lot of...

Thanks for the update Jimbo, you must have worked at Groves, wonder if you were there in my time, I was Secretary/PA to Mr. Topping, Financial Director, I remember Dennis Padley, Dave Pierre, Brian Blakeway, Graham Fieldsend, Buyer, Dudley Bachelor, I used to type Bowling Fixtures etc., for...

Wendy, Exeter Place, 64 Anderton Street, B1, according to my old Wakelin's Street Guide. This Guide was my parents and is so useful for look ups like this. I even found Alma Crescent.

John, do you agree with me that the photo on post 4, is not The Retreat?

The photo on post 4 is not of The Retreat, Aston, which ran from Wilkinson Street and then joined Sutton Street, leading to Park Lane. The houses on the one side of The Retreat had very long gardens, no bay windows, and the other side which backed on to Clarendon Street had a long brick wall...

I'm not sure but I think Fred Carno's Circus was an act in early silent films. My dad used the expression frequenty.

Very interesting thread Lyn, when I was growing up I knew two older people who couldn't read or write, one was our next door neighbour, and one was an aunt by marriage. I don't know why they hadn't learnt, as they were roughly the same age as my parents, who were born 1899 & 1900 but perhaps...

Colin the school William Davies went to may have been the one on Dartmouth Street itself, it was opposite Delta Metals where I worked in 1968 not very far from the junction of Gt.Lister Street. I can't remember if it had closed down during the period I was at Delta but the building was there...

Lovely to see these school photos. John it was nice to see the photo of Mr. Eastwood in photo 3, on post 10. I remember when he and Mr. Barker returned to the school after serving in WW2, I think he spent his whole career at Burlington Street, and he was renowned for throwing chalk at...

Thank you Lyn for starting this thread, and all who have contributed photos and memories. Completely absorbing.

I will try and come, I made it there safely before, but on the way back I thought I could turn at the Bartons Arms, but couldn't so went down Victoria Road at Six Ways, but somehow at the bottom I ended up on the Expressway, my heart was in my mouth as I am not a confident driver although I...

That was just delightful Ragga, thanks for posting it. I'm sure the children who were on the trip still remember it fondly. Such innocence. I noticed at the start of the clip Kam Ling's Chinese Restaurant in Livery Street, where I had my first taste of Chinese food.

Re: William and elsie jelf Alan, the latest census available is 1911, perhaps someone can help with the electoral roll for 1939.