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At Bromyard we have "Burying Lane" a short walk to the North East of the church and town centre. Well placed as the prevalant breeze is from the South West. This area of fields is said to be the site of plage burials.

I think it was a cover version of an Elvis Presley song purchased from Woolworths. Why when I never liked E.P ? Perhaps I got It as A present for my sister though the likely hood is slim. The mists of time have made that dodgey purchase a mystery ( thank gawd ) .I never ever brought an Elvis...

armed gang who fight to their death in siege of Sidney Street. Quote. The Siege of Sydney Street is more known by reason of Winston Churchills involvement as Home Secratary. The full story is hardly ever told . I believe an anarchist group carried out a robbery, a policeman was shot and two...

And who now has heard of George Barnes ? Thanks GER22VAN for a reminder that these things dont just happen. Someone had to fight for them.

From what I can remember of my "O" level Social and Economic History was this not the time of the reformist Liberal government.They did quite a lot for people at the lower end of the social scale and would probably have done more but for the intervention of the First World War.. Pit owners had a...

Both registered in the West Riding of Yorkshire pre1932 when the old CC plate was phased out.

Yes Frothy but you rarely see the saloon body these days. Everyone wanted to keep the sports cars. Could the back one have the fluted radiator top of a Daimler ?

The Headmaster on the make ? Never heard of it before. Was she behind in some sort of payment for school equipment ? Heard plenty of stories about children not going to grammar school because the parents could not afford to pay for uniform and school books etc..

Class motors..... trouble is I am viewing on my net book at the moment.Will have a better look later on. Thanks for the picture.

I lived in Merrions Close, Great Barr as a very young boy. My brother was born there in 1952. I can remember the house but very little else. Talk of emigration was popular and a few families in the street took up the offer of the £10 passage. Strange what you remember from so far back.

Hard times, Hard Living. These people lived in a world we would find difficult to comprehend. Perhaps many of them were " socially inadequate ", a class of people still with us and to be seen in pubs because they have no where else to go.Apart from drink there was little else for the lower...

In the unlikey event that no one here can provide the answer may I point you in the direction of the WW2talk forum. A friendly bunch with some members having highly specialised knowledge of WW2. If you ask a question it can sometimes reveal amazing details. Best of Luck in your search,the Lost...

I think Chicago was a canning centre in days gone bye . All those cattle roaming the range, taken on cattle drives,loaded onto trains to be slaughtered and processed into tins of corn beef. I have not seen " produce of USA" stamped on a corn beef tin for ages. Must be ground down for burgers...

Sat in my local yesterday chatting with the barman when a midland visitor asked which caravan park I was on. ( Thinks Here We Go Again ) Not on a park . Oh just visiting then. NO resident. Oh how many years. Forty years. Oh you sound like a Brummie. I am not one nor the other. Arkrite bangs head...

Phill , I am 59 yrs and as a kid can remember 3d of chips and free batters because "I was a lovely little boy". Potatoes were about 4d a pound for old uns. I think the cold winters around 1960 forced up the price of potatoes and of course the chippy never reverted to lower prices. The Chippy was...

Must agree about whelks being the shellfish equivalent of an ever lasting toffee bar. Along with winkles they are more a pastime than a seafood. Jellied Eels can be really good or just a bone in a lot of sloppy jelly. Mind I had to go to Folkestone for some good ones.

By the standards of the day S.U carbs were preferable to such as Zenith. I never ventured into specialised Italian and Japanese carbs , far to expensive. In the 60s and 70s I seemed to be playing with out of tune S.U.s ,especially when they came in pairs every weekend. Never give it a thought...

Going further afield...at one time a cowboy film had to have a railway thread. Who can forget the tension at the railway station in "High Noon", the fight on the timber wagons in " How the West was Won". That great silent film of a hand powered trolley cart travelling from one coast of the U.S.A...

The railways and a civil service were probably the best things the British Empire left India. The people always showed a sense of duty regardless of who ruled them. Now India is well on the way to being one of the magor players in world industry and political influence it will be interesting if...

Ghost Train starring the little chap who sang the Busy Bee Song Arthur Askey. The Great Train Robbery with Richard Burton /