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Looks more like out on road test with driver and mechanic.

I remember the Son and Daughter of the Caretaker, the son used to race and I can remember trying to find where he was racing so I could supply his relief tyres.

Have to be honest and say I rarely use my laptop as all my needs are met with my iPad. I still update windows 10 and have just left my laptop on to do what it needs. I'll have a look in the next week or two to see what's changed but to be honest I can't really see what the attraction is of...

When I worked for Ryland Garage in Ryland street we had a Mrs Treadwell and her Daughter working there, this would have been the early sixties.

Nice to see a fellow SM&BP employee on this forum. I Worked at Manchester A/P for a number of years when Frank Coughlin was the TM at EMA and Tom Parker and later Peter Keating were Group TM's. I started at Kingsbury in 1969 before moving to Shell after the split.

Remember going on our first foreign holiday to Lloret in 1975, my Wife 2 1/2 year old Daughter and myself all decked out in our denim suits complete with flares, boy did we think we looked good.

You may be surprised what a coach load of girls from a well known store in New Street on a night out to RAF Gaydon were prepared to endure when desperate for the loo. We were used to a coach load of men needing a stop in a suitable lay by but not usually an all female trip.

You can also see Orchard tyres who supplied all the tyres for Stockland coaches.

Good to see the house left as it would have been (more or less). We have a property that was similar to this until taken over by the National Trust, now converted to rental apartments with modern plumbing and furniture in many rooms. The property is very imposing from the exterior and has been...

My Brother in Law was a based at Pype Hayes and lived in one of the two cottages on the Chester road. His team also maintained the hanging baskets and roundabout displays in that area. He later moved to Perth in Scotland where he now owns his own business, nothing to do with his previous job...

Or the later chap that we always hoped to see when on holiday in South Devon back in the late fifties, carried the Birmingham Mail and called Lucky Lenny or something like that.

My Grandaughter spent the evening with Carolyn Jones who played Sharon Metcalf in Crossroads the other evening, met her thanks to her Uncle, who was producer on the Archers and Eastenders, when they went out for a meal.

Bought a 4x4 8 years ago after being snowed in in Cornwall, never snowed since. Had a few cars after but decided to change to a normal front wheel drive 6 months ago, whoops what a mistake to make as snowed in again and having to walk everywhere as our wonderful Cornwall Council state that...

Bit of a query re defender. When I check my security settings it comes up that my virus checker is turned off and the option to turn it on does not work. When I check to see why this is I get the message that the checker is turned off by my system administrator. As I'm the administrator and...

Hello Viv. My Mother and Father divorced when I was six months old so my Mother had a tough time bringing my sister and myself up. Fortunately my Father was a partner in a Scientific instrument manufacturing company so the family house was part of my Mothers settlement. I never realised that...

Dodds was the hardware shop, I still have a garden spade my Mother gave me that she bought from there which has Dodds name written on it with the price 2/6d.

Talking about the width of BCT buses. Coach company I worked for in Stockland green employed an ex Corporation driver who had always driven 7'6" wide buses, as our coaches were 8' wide this caused a problem especially when he was driving down to South Devon where on a number of occasions he hit...

Hello Doug. What year and class would this be ?

Our next door neighbour had some old floodlights in his garage that had been taken out of a factory which I found. I decided I would use one in my bedroom so attempted to plug the wires into our round type socket on the landing, that's when I found that creating a dead short wasn't really the...