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So no ones family here were takers of " high tea ". Its good to know the Aristo s have not arrived yet.My first mrs who came from a Nottingham family of miners called it snap. Out in the boonies of west Shopshire and Herefordshire I have never heard it called much else than " Break " or "...

This is a huge collection of maps from all over. The quality is amazing even under high magnification, just give it a little time for the picture to resolve itself. Another amazing thing is they are free to copy, so many map sites offer poor resolution because they wish to sell you a copy. I...

Excellent . I liked the Defiant Milk Bottle. Tony Robinson is rarely in a duff program, I don't know how much control over input he has.

The number of large windows give me the imppression it may have been an Art College, Drawing or Architects school or office. Just a guess mind you.

Maybe the moral of this story is you cannot improve upon perfection.:)

I wander if other countries have such a rich heritage of silly rhymes . I can understand places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand having one but have no knowledge of other places. Any thoughts ?

The programmes were in the mid-late 50s. We also had the big wooden speaker.It was a C.E. School at Walsall Wood ,the only school I attended with no main hall. We had no Music teacher or piano at that school , maybe thats why the radio was used. Singing was a very popular pastime in the 50s both...

Thank goodness someone is still carrying on the tradition but I fear you may be in a minority. May some of what teach fall on fertile minds and so may the tradition survive. Pssst....What is a runcible spoon ? At my school you were taught to keep you mouth shut,not ask questions and not grass...

Thanks Alan for that correction. Its been a long time since my history lessons and things happen to get lost in the filing system I call a memory. I did start to think" what were we doing there before WW2 " after writing the post. At this rate I will soon need someone to tie my shoelaces.

My mrs tried to teach her grandsons the old rhymes but once they discovered the PlayStation all interest was lost. What will these new generations have when the time comes to bounce baby on their knees. Absolute silence or may be just stick'em in front of the TV.Which I have seen done by parents...

After WW2 the United Nations gave Britain a Mandate to rule Palestine. The country was in danger of being swallowed up by its Arab neighbours who did not want the establishment of a Jewish State which had been promised and was awaiting ratification by the UN. And so Palestine was a dangerous...

We have all had a moment when a less than half remembered memory of an old rhyme or saying from our childhood has driven us half mad trying to remember the rest of it. I discovered this website while hunting down five words or so of a rhyme remembered by a member of another Midlands forum. Its...

I have looked through the thread and can find no mention of the BBC Radio Schools music program. I cannot remember its name but do remember the bossy man and woman presenters. Not only did they tell you what to sing, how to sing it but also when to stand up and sit down and like little robots...

A great loco to see at speed. Some years ago I saw it ( her ? ) approach Leominster Stn from the south. The track is level but uneven.The loco was not stopping so was travelling at quite a speed. It was rolling quite alarmingly but looked spectacular as it passed through the station.Even when...

Our house normaly had two of everything. One worked the other didn't. Looking around my house I think I may have inherited alot of my fathers genes. I bet the kid watching the TV had sore eyes from watching a 425 line picture that close up. Remember wash days in winter with clothes drying every...

During the cold winters in the 50s and early 60s I remember my dad making something he had made during his war service. Take a large square biscuit tin ( the type you dont see anymore ) and put an electric light fitting in the bottom. This was placed under the bed clothes and the light bulb...

Twizzle gave me nightmares. Torchy was scary. But these are nothing to the scary things kids watch today. If I child sit the grandkids I always take my computer, a selection of "civilised" dvds and a massive set of 'phones. No more nightmares for me thank you.

My uncle was a pattern maker at Stewarts Foundry, Wednesbury and offered to get me an apprenticeship there. The Foundry has now long gone. An IKEA store sits on the site.

Shepherd of the Hills ..... set that to Rap and you may be on to a catchy little number...go on try it .

May be a spot liverish but mostly whistfull for the past and terrifide of what the BBC will feed my hearing trumpet with in the future. Their output is bad enough at the moment.Val Doonican is what I would like to escape from.Saw all his shows, seen all his cardigans. not a lot to say after...