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I can remember a front loading bus running on the 14 Lea Village route, out of Crossfield Road Garage in the early 60s, registration HP 7000 (or maybe 7000 HP). No idea of any other details, but it was reported on Midlands news as being purchased on HP for £7000.

There was also a decorating shop somewhere in the block

It took me weeks to work out APE KNEE

Perhaps my final total may need correcting. I did it all in long hand.

Difficult a calculator for £SD isnt it? We always called 10 shillings 10 bob

So far so good, but I didnt go as far as putting the answers in old pennies.

We have had the Cheese Quiz and The Christmas Quiz, now try this one Old money quiz In the following problem a series of twelve clues have been given. Each answer is an amount in the currency used in England prior to decimalisation. You have been given the final total. All you have to do is...

I cannot open this index.php file. What is it?

When we got married we didn’t have any money, so the wife went to the back of Rackhams and came back with £25 and 25p. I said who gave you 25p? She said “All of them”

Before the refit and re-name, it was an Atkinsons house.

I just wish that the people who owned the buildings with clocks would maintain them so they would always tell the correct time.

I remember buying new shoes with leather soles. I would go straight to Woolies and buy some stick-on soles and stick these on before wearing my new shoes. Then when the heels had worn down a bit, it would be back to Woolies for new heel tips.

I always thought that the Compulsory stops meant a Stage point on the route because the fare was so many pence per stage.

Thank you for that. I have just rebooted my ipad and things seem OK now. It must have the latest ios update last week.

I’m glad I am not the only one with the problem, I clicked on your link and had no probs but there are still some other pics that do not open fully. Are there any settngs on the ipad I could adjust?

Hi, ever since these updates, some photos only half open, and if I press the “back” button my ipad reboots. It is a new ipad pro and I am using the MS Edge browser. Any suggestion?

Yes indeed, much better tha Radio Luxemburg!!!

Just remembered the ventriloquist dummy was Archie Andrews.

On Sundays our dad made us listen to Family Favourites then The Billy Cotton Band Show. I remember Sing Something Simple early on a Sunday evening. Then, thank God, the tell started. I used to enjoy some radio programmes though, such as Round The Horn, The Navy Lark, The Ken Dodd Show and The...

Go-to-top button covers or too close to RSS icon if I use my laptop or ipad. It gets a bit annoying when I click on RSS by mistake.