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Perhaps you can help me with what may, or may not be an accurate memory. Early in the 1950s at an exhibition (Ideal Home?) at the old Bingley Hall, I think I recall my parents taking me and my twin bro to see the Joe Loss band, which was playing as an add-on to the show. Does that seem possible...

Back in the days of the annual Police ball, Humph visited the Top of the World in Stafford and provided us punters with a memorable evening, his band making the resident outfit sound a bit ordinary. (Not difficult though.) The band did a concert at Keele, not long before Humph’s passing. He...

Don’t think much of Vaughn Monroe as a vocalist! The CD is dated 1997, I can’t remember where I bought it, but it was probably in the HMV shop in a place called Oxford Street, in a small town down south somewhere.

Old Mohawk’s picture #6 above contains a Morris Minor 1000 van introduced late 1956, and a Morris FF truck, introduced 1958, so the date has to move forward a bit from “early 50s”.

She certainly kept working during the bad times of the 1930s. This probably suits her style a little better, with Ambrose and his Orchestra. https://www.elsiecarlisle.com/my-kids-a-crooner-1935/

Hopefully this is not a duplicate. https://www.elsiecarlisle.com/on-a-steamer-coming-over/ There are several versions available on this link, I think that Henry Hall’s is preferable, Phyllis Robins is certainly a better vocalist than Elsie Carlisle, but that is just a personal preference.

My late mother in law, Audrey, b Newcastle under Lyme in 1920, used the epithet Nanny Goon to apply to someone who was a little bit behind the times in fashion, slightly less bright and more economically challenged when compared with the normal. (As you can see, I am having a bit of a struggle...

I have been watching “All Creatures Great and Small” to look at the cars! My mates and I are still trying to work out exactly which model that Riley is. The only -ve point to me is that “Mrs Hall” is about 100 years too young, and far too attractive. If you know the old BBC series, it is very...

Nose = dook. What did he give you? A punch on the dook. Anyone else come across this?

King Edward VI Boys Grammar School, Stafford? Now gone, however. https://www.ravenwing93.co.uk/2019/11/king-edward-vi-boys-grammar-school-stafford-october-2019

I have broken surface ice to launch my boat. All you need is a dry suit and a woolly bear! (Like a set of furry combinations.) Under the dry suit, of course.

Don’t worry about it. I haven’t been near a bike for about 50 years. It hurts if you fall off, whereas falling out of a racing dinghy is almost painless, provided that you can swim!

I have just seen Sospiri’s comment about the age rule. It’s news to me. Born in May 1948 I started at the grammar school in September 1958 and had finished my stint in July 1965. A third year in the sixth form was suggested, to better my rather spotty A-levels but I was attracted by what Alan...

I still haven’t got anywhere with the Shakespeare special. It seemed like a good plan to look up cyclecar manufacturers in the approximate area, but there were many. Also some now defunct larger car builders, but still. One possibility might be the “New British”, a friction drive cyclecar built...

A “brake” or “break” was a sort of horse drawn people carrier, and a “shooting brake” was to take you up to the grouse moor from t’big ‘ouse.

“Shakespeare Mk1.” You might be right! The difficulty presented here is an almost total lack of information. We can’t see the detail of the radiator, usually the most recognisable feature of any make. It is a quite small car, built in the 1910 to 1920 period, right in the fashion for cycle...

I’ve just spotted thread #93, Page 5, Snow Hill Passenger entrance. The car is a late forties/early fifties Lea Francis Fourteen (or slightly cheaper Twelve), quite a rarity as Lea Francis Cars struggled at that time and didn’t exactly break any sales records. Their factory was in Coventry and...

https://www.magnoliabox.com/products/1936-ford-v8-woody-model-68-utility-car-1194079 You can see why it’s a Woody!

Like a lot of our language, it seems to have been superseded by the American term, in this case “Woody”. My particular dislike is “train station”. I know “railway station” is slightly odd, but that’s what they were called in this country years ago, and that’s what they shall stay for me.

Quote failed to work Viv. Loakes they do last well.