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Notice my Avatar is still missing (Union Flag) is anyone else missing their's??? ????

During the wartime WW2 ,we did have spam from the USA I found that was alright,But recently tried it,and it was terrible NO more for me thank you

Red Ingle "Nature Boy" 1947

Yes,we had the three day working week while I worked at The Reliant motor Co. all to save electricity while the miners strike was on very annoying for us all

Here's a pic of the paddling pool in Homerton/Finchly Rd park Did anyone spot my deliberate mistake?? I should have wrote the pool was on the Right hand side not the left sorry folks

GG, The paddling pool in the park? you could either enter the park via finchleyRd and it would then have been on the left hand side,also you could walk into Homerton Rd, and go past the swings & roundabouts I often paddled in the pool,sometimes loade with little red worms,we would sail our...

great pics me old mate, wasn't like that last week with all that wet stuff about

Bluebrummie, The photo of your relative& Lady? Definetly not a Royal engineers badge more like one of the Guards Regiment he has what was called a "swagger stick" As regards Foster bros? worked on a lot of their shops when I was a shopfitter

Hi Carol, I lived in Kingstanding For over 30 years till I got married and came to live in Tamworth on the over spill Know Wardour Rd, but went to Dulwich Rd senior boy's school When I worked for B'am housing, our depot was on the college Rd My sister lives not far away from Wardour Rd

Mabel, That cloth badge above his stripe? it is to denote he is a gun layer it's a "L" surounded by laurels

Mabel, there is an excellant book about Dunkirk, Titled "Dunkirk" author Hugh Sebas-Montefiore ISBN 978-0--141-02437-0 Which I think you will find quite interesting (not fiction) dennis

Hi Astonian, sometime back Imentioned That my aunt Doris was the licencee of the Gunmakers arms, She remarried a guy who was a cripple,can't remember the exact year

hi mabel can you do a bigger image of your fathers badge on his arm? just curios Dennis

Hi Mabel yes you are quite correct your father was in the R.A that is the other badge of the RA the "flaming bomb" a similar badge is worn by the R.E.s the only differance is the number of flames it has the motto "Ubique" at the bottom

Harley Try RAF comunity support forum just type that in on your search engine i.e. google you may find some answers you need Dennis

Beryl, here in the UK the are many variety's on the shelves in the shop's I know in Ottawa there is a shop that has a variety of british goods shipped over

Re: guilford street lozells sorry Michael, The surname was Heath

Re: guilford street lozells hi Michael, Hearing you mention hospital St. I had a grandad &cousins living in Hospital St (102) His name was Joseph,wife Elsie, cousins Dorothy,Winnie,kathleen, Ramond & Roland,sadly Dorothy was killed by the land mine that was dropped I think that now only...

Gladi, if you type in 61 Squadron in google, there is loads of info on 61 Sqdn RAF. Dennis

Coming back to what I was saying, During WW2 we had AVRE flailtanks these were equipped with revolving chains,that would safely explode any mines in front of the vehicle. Also could not be our canine friends be trained to go in frontof our tin cars,and sniff out any mine layed? Then dealt with...