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Less traditional &some TV enspired Christian names started creeping in. Mum's colleague called the baby Samantha Tabatha, from Bewitched. I had a classmate Dean, a Dallas, Daniel after the Blue Peter Baby , Tanya, the elephant,? that's what she got name called, Shane, Ross, Wayne...

Thoughts as much!. He was a jolly kid.

Or Leslie Caron in Gigi when she trims the end of Louis Jordan's cigar.

I was at school in Coventry with a Peter & Julie Elliott I suspect not you.

My partrner's late mum kept old book matches, tuns, in the bottom drawer of her cooker, under the oven I think we brought some back. She had very long matches too about 8 inches long! Her place was very late 50s 60s, untouched. Massive transistor radio. Stylish black and chrome. We said...

It was cool but depending on the way you smoke, not talking with a fag dangling off your lip. or the way you blew the smoke, some cleaver clogs's could blow hoops., or the way you held it. Teenybops remember that word often held it backwards in their cupped palms in case they needed to disguise...

My Black Country/Brummie family used to talk about coloured matches but I never saw any. Have any of you? Their flame was coloured too

Also Endeavour, Life On Mars, anything like that.

Does anyone have their family ration books? I was given my grandfathers by my birth mother.

Thank you I hope it brought back good memories for you. My brain is so full and I survive on nostalgia. I think my present family {mostly all of my original family are gone,} are fed up with me emptying it so thank you for endulging me. The BHF is great for those of us who like to,. Really I was...

My mum took the train home as usual that year from her job in Birmingham, the points froze at Stourbridge junction & she jumped off into snow up to her waist and walked to Amblecote collapsing when she got home. Women especially were ill equipped, no trousers or high boots then.

It is used in France still, they are special too. Did we have berlingots in the uk. A refined boiled sweet, very fruity? As I tasted one & t brought back a memory. I liked the Weekend, jingle.

Too sweet for me too but I liked anything with animals. I remember the chocolate mice, they were not sweet enough.

We could do with that now as we have no street lamp outside us due to council budgets

It reads like an episode of on the buses. My grandad was a bus driver, mum's dad, & dad's mum used to think if he was driving she didn't have to pay!

It went, now he's only got one leg , got one leg , got one leg, now he's only got one leg, four blind faaaathuuuurs. Nowhe's only got one eye etc till there was nothing left

I was in love with Maria, Aqua Maria. What was the name of that game it was a cloth you wiggled? To make the horses race. I never had one

I love Gracie Fields. Navy League of Canada? My great great Aunt Alice used to do a Gracie Tribute act in and around Birmingham, Alice Sutton, she bleached her hair blonde. I discovered she played Muss Marple but am unable to find any film footage. I would love to see that. I just saw a still.

Thanks so much I am sure she wrote the park was a cemetery. I had forgotten about Kunzle Cakes, for some reason we called them Nuzzle Cakes. You know it was wrong but you still said it. Like Air [Heir] 'Unters.And 'ome 'elp. And even more recently, Lindykin.

I suppose I am off topic.? but does anyone know where Titty Bottle park was? Featured in Kathleen Dayus's book, Her People. Also a churchyard where the latch key kids played in safety till their parents came home from work.