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Judi, June is generally the last month of the quarter, i.e. April-May-June. I prefer to use terminology such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4 Qtr, but the General Register Office sets up those designations. Maurice :cool:

Lady P, You also had to be carrying a copy of that same newspaper to claim your £5. Just a blatant trick to up the sales of the paper, of course. Maurice :cool:

John, I think Geach-st2 is about as good as we are going to get. Cheers. Maurice :cool:

A few that wouldn't get past the censors today, Lloyd, such as doctors advocating smoking, and babies fed with coke or beer! I certainly remember that utility-type of Flavel cooker, and the Littlewoods advert is quite clever. And that sneaky advert advertising your cocaine throat sweets! :)...

As far as the Cavalier chain were concerned, upstairs or downstairs, the choice of the usual starters was the same, as were desserts. The latter always included port & stilton or Black Forest gateau, Upstairs the big T-bones were still available (no mad cow disease then) and a choice of 8 or 12...

Outlined in post #190, Michael, though both had passed away by the mid-1960s. Maurice :cool:

Correct, Mort, and owned by Watneys, while Toby Grills were owned by Bass Charrington and still exist. The page I got the information from still reckons that Beefeater is the nearest thing to Berni. It's about 20 years since I went in a Beefeater, but nowhere near as cosy as Berni. Maurice :cool:

Daddies Sauce now in brown plastic bottles, likewise Andrews rather than little tins, and I much preferred that shape for the Shredded Wheat boxes with two useful pieces of card between the layers. Cheers Lloyd. :) Maurice :cool:

Jan and I have our second Pfizer jabs on this coming Monday afternoon. No problems with the first ones at all. Maurice :cool:

Chris, Berni Inns, founded by the two Berni brothers, was at one time the largest catering chain outside the USA. Sold first to Grand Metropolitan & then Whitbreads, they were renamed the Beefeater chain, and have somewhat changed! Both brothers have passed away. Ross Frozen Foods started a...

Mike, And at that point it still had a long way to go before high level programming langauges came into being, and over 30 years before the internet came into existence. But at that point, a job for life, such as banking, had already ceased to be the norm for many young people just starting to...

Lyn, Michael is correct and the address is 32 Guildford Street, but it's on the opposite corner to that bombsite. 28 & 30 are on one of the pictures on the Guildford Street thread, but 32 would be somewhere in the margin! :) As John (brummie-lad) had just added the Guildford Street pics to...

Yes, they do Mike, mostly on the south coast and they are shortish, slightly curly, and sweet. Nice bananas and much tastier that the larger, generally harvested when green, supermarket stuff, though they are in all the Greek supermarkets. Not sure how many get exported. Maurice :cool:

Thanks. Mort, good to see more of those places are being resuscitated, but as you know, volunteers and funds are the key to this. My middle son being a recording engineer, and still trapped here due to to lockdown & lack of flights, spends his time recording sound effects for later use. Apart...

It sure is Dave. Maurice :cool:

The building to the left certainly gave it away. Maurice :cool:

Mort, I like the 70s gear and the hair - very becoming. We followed along not dissimilar paths, but I had to let mine (no pun intended) go. During most of the 1980s and the early 1990s I was a member of the Northern Mines Research Society, but I was living in Bournemouth & all of their field...

Close, but not close enough, John. :) Was looking for number 32 on the corner of Geach Street, but keep up the good work. Maurice :cool:

Dave Haw, Welcome to the Forum. Sadly NorfolkBrummie passed away a while ago now, hence the Gone but not forgotten status under his avatar. Maurice :cool:

I remember that Peacocks as a sort of cheap tat version of Woolworths, and even us kids turned our noses up their pressed-steel cars and lorries, the usual tab into a slot constructions, which quite often broke within a couple of days. And bare wooden floors as I recollect. When we had a little...