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How empty the street is, Viv!

Purple liquid - Permanganate of Potash?

Pupils have to be silent in the corridors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45931847 I can remember prefects standing down the middle of corridors to make sure that there were no collisions when people were changing classes (and later doing it as a prefect), but I'm not sure if...

This was my library, with in the 1960s anyway, a swimming pool behind it. I remember both very clearly.

I don't think so, Dave, but am not sure. I think it was a round building. My mother used to work in the kitchen of Merstone School, which was for children with special needs, and that moved some time ago. There are houses where it used to be.

Speaking of pubs, there was one where we used to live called The Friendly Inn that became a care home years ago, keeping the name. There was also one that became a school or residential home for boys with behavioural problems, and then became a care home. Can't remember the name of that one.

The 161 and 171 are the ones we used (I think that's right, long time ago), but of course in a different area.

I remember Cyclops.

I also remember the dog with "eyes as big as saucers"! Was it in The Tinder Box??

Watched this last night - thanks for the tip!

Yes, his reputation isn't that great.

Apparently some House of Fraser stores will be saved now, but no one knows which.

I don't know any details, but Carolyn Jones (Sharon) has died. She was recently in The Archers.

I saw this on Twitter. It was in a North Wales charity shop.

It looks so refined in these photos.

A Shelby in Moliere: https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/paul-anderson-tartuffe-interview-peaky-blinders_46625.html

Yes, I mean a "book" of leaves. I don't remember them in dispensing machines, though, but it sounds a good idea. A few years ago, a friend gave me some National Trust ones - which I've mislaid! I think you can get liquid Dreft now.

Soap leaves, which for some reason came into my mind today. We used to take them on long train journeys, I think. You can still buy them!

It's a bit hard to imagine...wouldn't the guns be quite difficult to dance with? :-)

Thanks, Mike, I will be iPlayering (that's not a word!) it.