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Would it be breaking the 'history' rule to suggest that earlier sporting events sponsored by the city ran at a pretty big financial loss to the taxpayers?

My late friend Herbert (Frank) Lawrence worked for S&U as an on the road salesman in the Forest of Dean, He later moved on doing the same job for three local town's MEB shops and eventually became the manager of one of them until they got privatised.

I watched a repeat of Top Gear last night, Clarkson trying to beat the other pair in a race between a Shelby Ford Cobra and the TGV train from Wembley Stadium to the San Siro stadium in Milan, they finished within a few minutes of each other despite long delays due to road works because the TGV...

The problem for those designing these schemes is that the politicians move the goalposts to suit their own needs, objectors arrive in their thousands and what was planned never gets done without modifications to suit every objector. I saw a story about a motorway by-pass having to be rerouted...

Seems to have a lot of red suited ants wandering aimlessly about. ;)

My aunt Ada lived, I think at number 206, her second husband was Alf MacDivitt, he and his brothers had a car repair business in Victoria Road, Macs Motors they did bodywork on accident damaged cars and rebuilt write offs. Aunt Ada's son was Victor Biddle who trained at and later owned Saunders...

When I was first married and living with ma in law in Potters Hill we had a little Irish guy call on us and ask if we'd like to live in a house in Rifle Crescent, we could have the ground floor for free but were told the rest of the house would be occupied by 'young blacks' bed swapping, 15 in...

I forgot about that but here are a few: Note in behind the Jag is an Princess 1100 having the sub-frame floor replaced an the Wolseley 6/110 was low mileage, crashed when a busy housewife tragically died when she did a U-turn across my path. The Peugeot pick up belonged to a council parks dept...

I must have been in a dream when I wrote that :( I worked at Brooklyn Garage not Beeches Garage.

In the link that Viv put up there's a 'Report a concern.' button, does it work?

Ah! The Beetle designed in the early 1930s modified every six weeks util the late 70s.............and they never got it right. ;)

As a car dealer in the late 1950s I used a lot of Tekaloid on the older cars, several of the early Vauxhall Victors and Escort vans but the best one was a 1928 Rolls Royce shooting brake which I did in a rich maroon colour, Tekaloid dried hard enough to cut and polish for an excellent finish...

I've just found this thread again ;) The bombing in Hurlingham Road I remember well, We lived at number 82 and went up to see the damage the next morning, the whole block was flattened and we were told all the family had died in the air raid shelter out the back, we kids collected bomb shrapnel...

I got a free one year security update from Microsoft for Win 10. Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025. Most users worldwide must enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program to continue receiving patches; however, customers in the European Economic Area (EEA)...

A young chap at the Wolseley works had his scalp ripped off by getting it caught in the belting, dad hung on the belt to stop it while they got the lad away.

We had Brian and Terry Fisher as school mates living almost opposite us in Hurlingham Road back in the 1940s/50s

The car in the picture is a mid-1950s Austin A55 Cambridge.

From Peckham Road school we used to be marched down Finchley Road and through to the lower half of the recreation ground by our PT teacher.

On Google Earth if you go to the junction of Finchley Road and Kings Road turn right the park is on your right just after the row of shops, there is still a gate there with the name over.

That's Finchley Park, I remember it well.