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Astonion . My memory can be very good at times. The further back you go the better it is. My short term memory is terrible. I forget where my glasses are, what I was supposed to be doing, and the correct word to use. If you think of my memory as an over crowded warehouse, I may not instantly...

The last time I saw chocolate concrete was at RAF Cosford, Airmens Messhall in the 1960s. I was an Air Cadet from Shrewbury attending the gliding school at the weekends. On the way out there was always a tray of " biscuit " type chunks for hungry airmen to take and keep hunger pains away until...

I have read recently that there is a move to make the new Rout-master bus opened deck at the rear.The trouble is you would have to go back to having a driver and a conductor. I can not recall my school books ever having the old measurements on the back cover but those from Woolworths with the...

The following link leads to a thread on the WW2talk forum, the members are a friendly bunch and very knowledgeable. It gives a list of numbers ,blocks of which were issued to the various regiments of the British Army. It is worth printing off for future reference...

Try again ,I am having finger trouble today which wipes out my posts. Emergency Ward 10 was my first soap. It appeared to be full of Australians who played doctors and blondes who played nurses. You also had Dr Kildare. Being in Back and White you had to use your imagination if you wanted added...

Another member of the "Whats my Line " panel was Gilbert Harding. A blue plaque on The Hereford Work House, still standing at Hereford Hospital, records his birth there. Just how he went from the workhouse to become a TV celebrity known for his bad tempered, whisky fuelled tantrums on the BBC I...

Wendy, you do "dig up" some interesting characters in that cemetery of yours:D

I hope its free. I like watching TV Gold on sky but can only watch it at the stepsons. Modern Comedy leaves me cold. Some one wrote in the paper that the likes of Dads Army was not funny. I admit actors were not screaming obscenities at the tops of their voices as is todays comedy. I...

My family Lived at Great Barr in the early 50s. As a very young boy I can remember being on a bus to Birmingham with my mother and seeing fire engines rushing out of a fire station and the bus passing very close to what appeared to be a department store well ablaze. I wonder if this was the same...

I can just about remember visiting the Market Hall in the fifties when a little boy. I found it strange that the building was incomplete and I sort of remember a proper bomb casing . But may be my memory is playing tricks on me. These days its difficult recalling what I had for tea come bedtime.

Never had time to do that. When I was a kid there were Redskins a plenty to chase and shoot with my Woolworth cap gun. If it was not for me and my friends you would have been over run with them and they would have eaten all the peas. Oh Happy Days.

For any one who wishes to read about it try the link https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/87291?Ntt=Bass%2Bbrand%2Bsell%2Boff&Ntk=All&PagingData=Po_0~Ps_10~Psd_Asc InBev the owner are only interested in mass lager markets such as Stella and Budwieser. Bass at present is...

Ignominy, Ignominy, they ve all got it Ignominy ! Sorry to Kenneth Williams ,I could'nt resist it....Arkrite will climb back in the cupboard now.

We still had to stand in line holding our Accoutrements for inspection by the Shift Inspector or Station Sergeant. We had personal Radios by then but still had to make meets out on the beat. Inspectors were gods back then, now you rarely see anything higher than a Constable in my town ( 1968...

Very few of the buildings I worked in during the 60s and 70s are now standing. Many buildings I have seen go up often come down within 10yrs. The rates on unoccupied buildings are often responsible for this. Lets face it not much of the stuff built since the 50s is worth keeping. Modern...

How many of todays adverts stick in your mind ? Some of them are so arty that you have a job discovering what they are selling. Others are so irritating they put you completely of the product ( Go Compare Insurance does my head in ). No keep it simple and even better if you can humm it without...

While talking about digital cameras let us not forget that most mobile phones come with a camera. Some of these can produce really good results. The younger generation raised with this sort of camera look at photography in a different way to us oldies. No longer is it a medium to record...

Using a back screen to take a photo took some getting used to. Remember the hint for a shake free photo ? Elbows in tight, camera hard against the nose and cheek, grip the camera with both hands and gently press the button.If something upright was available then lean against it. All that goes by...

A DIGITAL SLR !!!! In my Dreams.....WANT ONE...WANT ONE. My 35mm days I used a Pentax MX (Still got it in the cupboard ) and an Olympus OM1. My works pension starts in October and some of that lump sum just might provide for a DSLR and a very nice lens or two. One of my digital cameras is a...

I became an amateur photographer in my teens during the 60s. An after school club taught me basics and how to develop and print. Never a professional, I did a lot of weddings for people and got a name as an accident photographer for legal work. It earned me some beer money. In '96 all this...