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I think those days when they all had their own clothes were better than when they were all forced to wear uniform, no individuality now. I pity though the one lad wearing specs, I bet he was 'four eyes' to some of the other lads.

"If our bombs don't kill you smoking will." would be appropriate. ;)

As a lad I remember the site as Kynochs, later it became ICI then IMI . the Kynochs name is still used by a later company, still in the ammunition business. Just a thought they had a lot of explosions and fatalities could it be that the hospital was part of the ammo works...

Thanks Janice, I couldn't find it after reading it the first time, looks like he was a bad boy. :(

Are the ladies family or was it just a opportunity to snap a couple of beauties?

One thing I see in the photo is both girls are smoking, thank goodness that's less so nowadays. My brother used to call girls who smoked 'Fag-ash Lil.'

Mis-transcription of facts causes me a bit of bother, at the top of my tree I have Peter Gibson, his wife Harriet Hurlstone comes up in various listings as Hasliston Hurliston and another I can't remember at the moment. :( On another note I got a criminal record pop up for Martin Giblin who I...

Only if you're facing it, with your back to it it's on the left. :)

Having just come back to using Ancestry I find that it's become a more money grabbing set up, most of the other sites seem to be linked to it in some way and each time they ask for another 'bite of the cherry' . I got sent to newspapers.com from Ancestry where they asked for a sub then when I...

And screws. :)

For an enthusiast like yourself Lloyd we have just down the road this: https://londonbuspromotions.com/contact-us/ it sits right next to the local railway station, Lydney, and you can see their stock over the fence but there's a damned get dog roaming the grounds so not advisable to get too close.

I think I was in my teens Paul and more interested than traumatised.

I remember a Co-op milk round horse dropping dead in Sidcup Road Kingstanding and watching the recovery man dragging/sliding it up on to a trailer with a winch.

Look up LP record 'matrix codes'

I see in that my Uncle Alf and aunt Rebecca are with my grandparents and my dad at 5/13, didn't know that. :)

Our granddad's house was 5 back of 13, I don't remember the roadside houses but I do remember the long front garden with a wicket fence all round it, granddad had a huge (to us kids) Alsatian dog chained up right at the top, it bit mom's nose once when she got too close while it was chained up...

When I served petrol there it was one shilling and eleven pence a gallon the post war Labour government added 4d a gallon tax onto it and the cry went up "That will be the end of motoring for the ordinary working man." How wrong could they be?

Maurice (Sospri) mentioned Gibbo 2005 and suggested it might be me but it was in fact my older brother Allen who was in Australia at that time but passed on, like Sospri, some time ago. Our grandparents lived in Bartons Bank and at the 1939 census had the Biddles, dad's sister Ada and her family...

If you come down from Kingstanding it was a right turn at the P&C back toward Banners Gate, grown a lot since by the look of that, they must have swallowed up some neighbouring property. I used to serve petrol, 'Pool' at that time i.e not branded although the pumps had globes for Power, National...

I worked for a year at Hawthorn Garage Streetly just along the road from the Parson and Clerk back in 1950, is the garage still there? It used to be a cottage style workshop with 4 or 5 petrol pumps out front and an orchard out back with a few pre-war cars between the trees.