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They were red 'eggs'! I was given some very old wooden children's dominoes, i thought tgey looked like Cotswold stone . I used them as brick shelters in my model farm. I still have them. I don't see many toy farms these days but they still sell them in France.

I REMEMBER OY I remember our caravan holiday in Dawlish or Dawlish Warren, we always rented the same caravan. It was white , I even remember the number.The site had putting, and a tennis court and lots of grass. A river ran through with ducks on it and it flooded. I paddled up to my knees...

I do but they may have not stayed long.

That's a good photo. I think my quest (No57) may not have been a shop after all in 1920. A possibility is wasn't.

Ha great I can look for photos if it. Thank you.

White building on the corner, could be a pub?

Thank you

I am told it was near the slaughterhouse can anyone tell.me if that is correct.?

Thank you so much

We used to have an older conductor who shouted the pubs' nicknames here, like The Bolshy, Ma Cooper's Ma Brown's, The Fleapit cinema, The Cabbage Club etc

Yes they sure did. My Nan said the bus conductors shouted the names out as there was always one by a bus stop. e.g. The Old Cat yer mother in law ! whilst being on the bus,with hers, who had a go at the conductor, to then young Nan's embarrassment, her mother in law was true to her description!

They had wonderful names then and so of their time. Now we have or had, Prague, Dogma, Enigma, Jumping Jacks, Inspire, The Aardvark, etc. If they are still there as they change and disappear, there used to be the Leg and Cramp & the Dog and Trumpet. That's gone.

We have a family joke that my half sister and I are Irish twins. We are not but we are nearly 7 months apart. I don't think there is a name for us except lucky.:laughing:

We have a new family joke that I am an Irish twin, I am not but my half sister and I are nearly 7 months apart. I don't think there is a name for us. Apart from lucky.:joy:

I read Georgina became Mrs Leech I pulled these off the net, It was 2017 I believe when they celebrated their 80th and were/are Britain's oldest triplets.

They probably will but it won't be for the good. My draughtsman mate was replaced by a computerised system with lower salaried lower skilled operatives at the GEC. The new templates were always out and even upside down.

On navigable rivers not sure about canals, on pea souper foggy days, a man in a boat would play a big triangle. A warning. How it worked I know not. I heard it in the lyrics of The Auld Triangle, which is an Irish song.

My dad was a Costings Clerk at Rolls Royce he used a slide rule & weights & measures books. Different weights for different substances bushels & pecks etc.