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Hi Lyn yes it was a part of Ansell it was used storage of bottle beer in crates

Wonderful picture thanks for sharing

Let me start you off I intend trimming my bungalow up in memory of my dad who play an important part of the celebrations in Birdbrook Rd & Kebworth Close parties. I will hope to have Union Jack buntings with a picture of King George 6th an Elizabeth, LED light shining on my home with R W B...

What a Bargain

I'm almost sure Grasmere Nurseries to left of Midlands Counties Dairy on Kingstanding Road near the junction with Cranbourne Road.

What a wonderful series of programmes it brought back memories of being down in a reinforced cellar 2 Sandy lane Aston. The elderly lady explained it very factual Siren then down the shelter, the drone as enemy planes passed over head you'd hear the whistle of bombs falling then you waited for...

Hi folks Starting on Tuesday night for three nights on Channel 5 at 9 pm The Blitz Britain on fire it looks as if it could be a vert interesting series.

Mike this map is very interesting the sandpit to right of the barracks was it every used as commercial quarry it was quit a drop from the back of the house in Dyas Road, I don't remember a coal yard being based at the pit. I remember that a number of children was hurt playing on the sand pit 1...

I used to live in Birdbrook Road I remember seeing mobile air craft guns on concrete base from a field we used play on at the back of Co-op dairy the barracks was fence off with rails. The right away used to be a short cut school at Cranbourne Road. The base used to called Light Anti Air Craft...

Hi Vivienne I think that it would be site of the army barracks between Goodway Road Dyas Rd I'm pretty sure it was an anti aircraft base during WW2 the actual guns was over the back near the right of way to Harbeck Av and to back of the Co-op Dairy

No the ones I remember wasn’t mines, they were bombs I saw the bomb squad removing a bomb which had been dropped on the Lichfield Rd during the war. Where I lived in Sandy Lane Aston my gran lived next door she had a very large metal case with 4 compartments which had been dropped from a German...

Did you see the T/V program about Cambridge Military Hospital it very interesting it was the best known hospital for treating soldiers wounds it was famous for the treat of burns it's complete wreck of a place today if it has been pulled down

It was a massive site it had branch line off the main line in Southampton it was used for bring heavy equipment in Tanks and armoured vehicles. from what I remember it was a blue saddle tank engine. The Royal Engines Railway Regt was at No 8 Regt Longmoor and a lot of the wagon at Marchwood had...

I remember the fights the ! & 3 Para's had with the Catering Corp in Aldershot at the Naafi every week end they for some unknown reason hated them.

If as you say your father might have been in the Royal Engineers could have been stationed at Marchwood Southampton 17 port Regt. McMullen Barracks, they trained lightermen, stevedores, and other dockside activities. I was stationed at 17 port during the late 50's for 21 months after training...

I remember a bomb donation box which used to on the pavement by what used to be called the BIG Top Site, it was opposite Worcester Street which used to be back entrance to the Market Hall, It was much bigger than the one in the photo and was paint red the donation entry had a polished brass...

My Dad was the Midland Counties Dairy milkman, I used work on Saturdays with Dad. Our first call was the corner of Hurlingham Rd & Harringay Rd 7.30 am 2 Ster. If I remember right Dad had fast moving electric milk float. We used to deliver Stera. Past silver top and TT blue top baby milk. Dad...

Has anybody got any information about the where abouts of Reg Marlow Turbo Dept I believe he moved to Lincolnshire some years ago

Where did that picture come from, I never thought I'd see one of them again.

Wonderful memories youngsters these days can’t emagine what the old days was like. No frigs but we had a cold cupboard which was a wooden frame cupboard the sides & doors was in filled with a metal perforated sheets. Spotted dick steaming in a saucepan covered in a muslin sheet, when cooked a...