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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.

I remember the smell of a rubber mask and gas at a school dental clinic. I wonder if school dental clinics still exist? Can't remember where the clinic was, but there were chairs with cream metal frames and brown canvas seats and backs in the waiting room.

An imposing building.

Stephen and Pete were my friends. I'm still in touch with Stephen.

Imagine how complex the packing and transport must have been.

Hello thaichemist. That's very intriguing! :)

I met someone who had been a volunteer (though he hadn't volunteered) for something like this. He was doing National Service and he and others were put in a room and some kind of gas was released.

That did occur to me. It would explain why he didn't talk about the war, I suppose. Anyway, I'll pass all this on.

That's interesting steve, and similar to my friend's experience. He had to make a FOI request - and it took ages. Thanks, both of you. I'll let my friend know what you've said.

It is strange, lyn, and I thought it would be straightforward. Apparently the record contains some medical information, so it's a question of medical confidentiality. But surely lots of soldiers needed medical treatment, either for wounds or things like having their appendix removed, so in that...

He applied to the MOD, lyn. Unfortunately he doesn't know the dates. His father was reluctant to talk about the war.

A friend applied for his father's army service record, and after a very long time was told that because of certain information it contains, the record can't be released until well into the next decade. He knows that his father was in Italy and North Africa but would like to know details like...

Yes, horrific.