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I forgot to add if the lads think it may be worth anything it will end up on e-bay.

Totaly agree, but as was said to me when my mrs recently passed on. " All this was Moms life.,either with you or Dad. We have to decide how much of this to let into our lives". I am searching through the clutter of 62yrs of someones life and we all know how upsetting that can be when that person...

Good you are back. Just loo forward to the next visit. I gave up smoking after 25 years shortly after my first wife died. I was smoking so many they made me feel ill. But its true , you need to want to give up. I worked part time in a pub when I did it, before the smoking ban came in.Stick at it.

I could not believe you sat on a mine ! The song " Boombangabang" is now going through my heard . I think I need some paracetamol.

Double deckers could tip on their sides . It is good to this this conscientious crew member is taking no chances. A fore runner of Elf & Safely.

Another photo found in my mrs's stuff. No idea who,when or where but the motorcylce registration is POM410. The little girl is also in the second photo sitting on Lynne's knee. I would say taken on the same camp/caravan site.The trees in the distance seem to match up. Not certain where to post...

Lynne is actually middle row 4th in from our left. I thought I had answered Evergreen and Lloyd yesterday but must have pressed the wrong button. I have placed the photo on Halesoweroots, Blackcountrygob and Friends Reunited ( the Halesowen Grammar School entry). As Lynne was only 62 on her...

Some car companies now have a dash design of black plastic and a fussy silvered centre console.It puts me right off. Old cars may look quaint and have bags of charm, but I prefer one that will run 20,000 miles between services and starts everytime regardless of the weather. ( As long as it has...

I was asked by some young chaps if I would join their pub quiz team. When I asked why me they said they were not very good on History questions and reckoned I had been alive long enough to have seen most of it. That was twenty years ago when I was forty. I am finding things that I purchased not...

I was going through my late mrs effects when I came across this photo. I do not wish to hijack your thread but we have the Cadbury Charity Shield in common although its 23 years apart. It is of Mucklow Brothers ltd Football Club ( I think its a Halesowen engineering firm) having won the Cadbury...

While sorting through my late mrs effects I have found a few photos which may be of interest to the odd forum member. This picture is of a class at Halesowen Grammar school in 1959. By its date I would guess it is the year Marylynne Weston(later married Kenneth Beesley) joined the school after...

Be wary of the people who settle up the estate of a recently deceased person. They work on commission based on the value of the estate. We have had one overestimate the house by £70,000 .Just check everything they do carefully. I wish someone would knock on the door and give me money, at the...

A great thread,all the posters mirror my childhood. No telephone or car but I remember we had a washing machine and TV in the mid 50's. No fridge or freezer but a New World gas cooker and a Burco boiler for the nappies.We lived in the kitchen, the only room that had a fire burning. You froze in...

Its wonderful to see the pier coming back to its former glory. I had feared it would become just a name in a history book and a faded picture on a post card.

Probably not connected but it may have a bearing. I was told of doss houses for homeless men in Victorian times being a large room strung with washing lines but no beds. The men would drape themselves over the lines and fall asleep. It sounds very uncomfortable but was perhaps safer than the...

Thanks everyone for a very interesting thread. I visited the old ramps and hangars at Pembroke Dock a few years ago but cannot locate my photos.The old Navy area was virtually derelict waiting for redevelopment. I have no idea what remains now. A little further along the coast is the village of...

I dont think you upset anyone Bernard certainly not me. In corporate speak we are all singing from the same song sheet but in different keys. In fact the good old British trait of speaking up for the underdog ( the inspector ) and giving a chance for a fair hearing reared its head. All the...

I love your paintings. Apart from the detail they have a peaceful aura about them. I printed off the one of the Chapel in the square and it sits on the wall above my monitor. Many is the time I have caught myself in some sort of reverie caused just by starring at it. Very restful.

Is that one of those Mobo Horses ? While you sat on it and moved up and down its spring loaded legs moved it forward. Only rich kids had them then but I have seen a few in second hand? junk ? antique shops. But I am far to big for one . Stitcher's hypothetical dog would probably chase me down...

I used to regularly take witness statements in accidents for a neighboring force. It is not for the first time I ask what exactly are the duties of our Police officers.There does seem to be a lot of buck passing.Perhaps Jack Straw has a point in some cases.