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Thought I'd been banned, pleased it was some other problem.

Unfortunately like many of our loved bands the Moody's are no more. With only two of the original ( though you can't really class Justin Hayward as original) band then perhaps it's time to give up. We have seen them many many times and the last time when Graham needed a drummer to support him...

Hello Eric You didn't by any chance know David Burrows (spelling) or his Brother when you worked at Brooklyn garage, I went to School with David.

My Wife loved pineapple creams, about 11/2" tall and flat filled with cream and pineapple with a yellow icing on top. She now has to travel to M&S in Truro to buy a poor replacement as our local M&S don't stock them.

Hi Viv. Only did the Newquay run once as preferred Torquay and Paignton run instead. Strange how we have lived in Cornwall for the last 20 years apart from a 4 year spell in Torquay. Quite like St Aggie even though I used to drive through there twice a day on the way to Perranporth whilst...

Would have been Stockland coaches Viv, Friday night services to South Devon and Newquay Cornwall. Flights also operated similar services as we used to meet up in Taunton and use a traffic free short cut to Bridgewater missing all the traffic jams on the A38.

Pretty sure that Z cars Taxis were located opposite the house with the advertising board, would have been in the sixties,

It's strange how your memory can play tricks. I was at Beeches road from 57 to 60 and can only remember the 4th year, Miss Lloyd was our teacher, slow learners class as I missed 3rd year. Our class was quite unruly and I can remember our history teacher, Mr Brown, being on the verge of a...

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Ford consul or Zephyr.

Spotlight missing on the one.

Short storey re the Morris 8. My cousin had one in the late fifties, my Mother and Sister loaded in just waiting for me. I came running along and jumped onto the running board, yes it dropped off and my cousin was really upset.

Bit old for me but looks like a Austin.

Not one I owned but I remember the petrol pump also supplied the vacuum for the wipers. I remember replacing the petrol pump diaphragm on quite a few of these.

Working for an Austin agent we had many problems with the mini and the 1100 with water causing ignition failure. Customers often used a rubber glove over the ignition leads until Austin/Morris introduced the insulation kit. This would have been early sixties when no self respecting owner would...

Had a few minis and can remember a few breakdowns, faulty electric fuel pump where it stopped working if you drove round a roundabout to fast and water getting onto the distributor causing the car to breakdown whenever it rained. Fastest one I ever drove was one owned by the son of RG Brown...

Now that sounds like wishful thinking, before we moved to Cornwall my Sister in Law told us that the sun always shined in Cornwall, if that were the case why have I got webbed feet :)

Winter of 62/63 was probably the first time many experienced Diesel fuel waxing as previous cold spells were before Diesel fuelled vehicles became popular and petrol doesn't wax. Problem solved a few years later when winter grade diesel was introduced which raised the cold plugging point and...

I can only remember them between Tuckers and near to the air raid shelter by Perry Avenue, they were certainly there when I did my paper round from Townsend and Dennet's paper shop/post office, that would have been up to 1960.

Spent the first 25 years of my life around here and remember how the Walsall road used to be, considerably different nowadays of course, no tank traps for one thing :)