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Circular skierts with net underskirts, Tight jumpers, bucket bags, baby doll pyjamas, gloves, hats & stillettos. Boys in "brothel" creepers dress coats ect.

How lovely of you Eric ........................ looks just like Wendy. You hace captured her lovely smile great

Thank you both very much. In the late 1940's & early 50's my brother & I used to go to Austria on army trains from Harwich to Holland through Germany to Austria (Klagenfurt) where our Mother worked at the Landhaus as a secretary to a Colonel-In-Chief. Our Grandparents took us to the station &...

Can anyone tell me please which station would I have left from to go to the HOOK OF HOLLAND in the 1940's was it Snow Hill or New Street?? Thank you :fat:

I used to collect my maintenace from Sutton courts every Friday, £3 for my 3 children. Most Fridays it was there I must say. Have a good holiday edd..................you may get a tan & not rusty as the sun has been promised at least down here in Cornwall, it is a great day here today

I always, always check the back of my head!!!!! Many moons ago I set of to work at Telephone House in Newhall street. I was on the Midland Red from Sutton to town when we got to the Yenton someone tapped me on the shoulder and told me I still had my comb stuck in the back of my hair :stupid...

Hi Jean, No I lived there long before the leisure centre was built......our garden backed onto a field that backed onto the park. I use to take my Mother's dog for a walk every day before, I left home, got married & had my children then it was with the boys I feed the ducks & they used to paddle...

I too spent many a time feeding the ducks there most daya as I lived just round the corner (left as you went out0 in Clifton Road. Oh happy days............... bet it's not like that now

I remember getting on the No 28 bus on the Chester Road with my brother, to the stop before the Pelham by the shops, how happy I was to be travelling THAT way because we were going to my Nanny & Grandad for our holiday......................... After the holidays were over my brother & I got...

The BUCKET OF BLOOD :devilish: near Hayle in Cornwall

Clearing out some drawers today I came across an ornament of Brumas the Bear with Lily his Mother......... oh how I adored Brumas :) I used to have the books about him but they dissapeared many, many moons ago but the ornament survived many house moves. I think it is made of a ckaulk like...

Congratulations to you all and a big WELCOME to Willow Faith

Thank you all for the reples. I hope to see my friend over the weekend sometime so I will ask her for more details such as her Grandfathers first name & his approx birth date & where he was born. May I get back to you then to ask more questions please?

Can anyone tell me about Wells Street please? A friend told me today that her Grandfather was a horse & cart delivery man who lived in a yard there and is wondering if it still exsist. Her Grandfather's surname was FERRIDAY. is there a way to look him up? I would think it he would have been...

My Mother was widowed in August 1940 when my Father died leaving her with a 3 year old and 7 months pregnant with me. Though I was never close to my Mother, I can see that it must have been a very hard time for her to be in that dreadful postion during the war. Life is so much easier for a...

My father worked at the BSA as did hid brother. My fathers name was Rowland Bott he died in August 1940 two months before I was born. I would love to know if his name or my Uncles name James/Frank Bott are in you book. Thank you

Tonibell was another ice cream selling van

https://www.offexploring.com/familyarchive/albums/livingston-family-archive/8955097 I enjoyed looking through this site hope you do

Re: Sarah bott Thank you all for your answers. I now need to find out if he is part of the Bott family I need. Is there a way I can find who Charles' parents were and his death year? I wonder did he marry again as Sarah was quite young when she died..........mm....... a bit more digging for...

I have been told about a SARAH BOTT nee ASHFORD living with her parents at DOE STREET BIRMINGHAM. My need of help is.......... who did she marry and when? I am trying to find out about her husband and who his BOTT family are She is said to be age about 25 I don't know any more than...