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Hi All, When I was growing uo prewar holidays were a rare experience for the working class family. I did not have a holiday until I was about 10 when I was taken on a weekend coach trip to Blackpool Illuminations. The following year 1938 I was lucky enough to go to a scout camp at...

Eric, I agree with you but it is an improvement on Tracey Emins bed. Let's go for a drink in Amsterdam. Chris Beresford.

Hi Eddie, It might have done but only if your school was at the top of a mountain. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)

Hi All, Checking with Google Earth I see that there is a Victoria Road in Bidford on Avon I could see no sign of a school, however, but in 2011 in Bidford it would have been o more than a small village school. Old Boy

Hi Viv, I do not think that it is a chimney. I went to Somerville Road School and always thought of it as a tower but I never heard of anyone going up the tower. I believe the school is still there so perhaps someone could find out for us. Never did I see any smoke coming out of it. I am sure...

Hi All, Would those people who designed and worked on the Atlantic Telegraph Cable have believed that 150 years later people could be sitting at computers in their own home. Write a message to someone anywhere overseas. click on a small instrument (Mouse) and the message arrive at its...

Hi All. Richie suggests it is Edward V11 and Mohawk thinks it is George V. I consider that it is neither. Would the Monarch likely to be riding in an open carriage with a beggar running alongside holding out his cap for a handout? It could easily have been an assassin carryig a...

Hi All, I have studied these photos with bafflement but I wonder if No 9 could be a church. The entrance is an archway similar to that of St Thomas in Bath Row which has been cleared and developed into a Peace Garden. The original archway has been left in situ. This is only a suggestion but...

Hi All, I am using Vista but it is time I had a change. I will buy a new computer but will wait until Windows 10 has settled in Old Boy

Hi Viv, I am sorry that I was remiss in failing to thank you for this information . Thanks again for a great thread. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)

I agree with Janice Old Boy

Re: Intorducing myself to forum community Hi Alan, Just to put you right Kenyon Street was 'C' Division not 'B' Division but more importantly Gerry Baumber was never Chief Inspector of BIrmingham. I think you mean Chief Constable but he was never that either. He was Detective Chief...

Hi Katie, It is now a Miller and Baker pub. I have been there once and twice. It was not bad but no better than most pubs in the Sutton area. Old Boy

Hi Caroline, In Posts 139 and 140 you posted photos taken at Somerville Road and Waverley Schools. Were you a pupil at either or both of them? Just wondering. Old Boy

Hi Caroline, In Posts 139 and 140 you posted photos taken at Somerville Road and Waverley Schools. Were you a pupil at either or both of them? Just wondering. Old Boy

Hello Wendy and Welcome. I think I can help you. My brother Arthur Beresford was a member of the same Lancaster crew as Kenneth Ingram who was the flight engineer.. They belonged to 50th Squadron RAF Bomber Command. They were shot down over Holland on Thursday 22nd June 1944. The plane crashed...

HI. Yes,strangely enough, Buttons Ltd do or did make buttons. Someone has to. Old Boy

Hi All, I do not collect bottles but I must have drunk the contents of thousands in my time. Old Boy