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Hi bernie, interesting picture. It looks like the opposite side of iron lane to parkinson. Cowan i'd say. Do you remember anewsagents about there where you sell your ciggy coupons and you could buy a fishing net for the pond or the river. Stechford does seems to have gone downhill if you'll...

By the way bernie nice photos. Nijinski

Oops I seemed to have boobed

And this is what they changed it for bernie a block of concrete with glass. Regards nijinski

That's it thanks postie. My mother used to be a regular there. regards nijinski

I don't know if this is the right section for this. does anyone remember the big old machines in a big glass case usually in railway stations. You would put an old penny in the slot, type something on the keys and watch the penny get flattened and print out what you typed. I believe they have...

There is a lot of landmarks disappearing from in and around stechford. Places you could use as direction guides.places like the richmond pub. I think they were replaced by apartments. The beaufort. Cinema which was replaced by a diy store then aldi's. Then here's parkinson cowan on station rd...

That's a magnificent painting eric and it certainly has atmosphere. Regards rick

You are right nico, just to add to that pig iron is high in carbon and this made it brittle. Regards nijinski

I was at school during the mods and rockers time. The kids at our school used to go around saying to other kids are you a mod or a rocker? If you said mod, they would say rocker and punch you. I guess it had a lot to do with the brighton punch up

If you like historical dramas michael, you'll like this. I wish I got punished by being put next to a girl as long as she was pretty of coarse. Regards nijinski

Thanks for that nico, I'm a little wiser now. Regards nijinski

And a vhs of the time

A couple of v2000 recorders

Hi jennyann, I think there was a programme on that subject on bbc3 or 4 I. Caught apart about sending the flying scotsman to the knackers yard to be stripped and the efforts by railway enthusiasts to save her. A millionaire bought it at the last minute and it was sold from one millionaire to...

While researching my wife's ancestry I noticed a number of men in her family tree were called puddlers. I had to find out what that was. Puddling is the occupation of making iron. It is the process of turning pig iron into wrought iron with a reverberating furnace. I guess pig iron is another...

Hi mike, watched the village, worth watching. It was set around the first world war. It had one of the very first midland red single decker motorised buses with a canvas roof. Very stylish back then. It was strange seeing the children using chalk boards for their lessons. Shocked. To see a boy...

We had one ourselves mike, it was definately better than vhs and the tape was reversable with 4 hrs each side and the recorder was very stylish and digital for the time . Regards nijinski

Does anybody remember the v2000 video recorder and the betamax recorder. I thought the v2000s were very stylish compared to the old vhs recorders back then, it's a pity they never took off

Me and the missus had a v2000 video recorder and we used to go to the video shop over the railway bridge from the pelham. It was the only video shop in the area that rented out v2000 video films.