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I find some people consider many beers brewed during the 60's and 70's to have been pretty awful stuff. This is the period I started drinking. Yes I do remember beers that were awful. Greenalls was my main dislike. Double Diamond, Red Barrel, Whitbread Trophy and Worthington E seem to have been...

Available on BBCi player a BBC Radio 4 program. In Our Time, The Industrial Revolution. Melvyn Bragg with other intellectual worthies discuss just why did the Industrial Revolution take off in Britain. Other countries had similar skills and access to materials.Japan was an island nation...

Sugarfoot or Tenderfoot was decided by which channel you watched it on.....BBC or ITV, they both showed it but at different times. TV companies used to buy packages of programs from the USA and sometimes the serial/series would pop up on the other channel...

I think the Welsh lead may be wrong.The lady's hat is the wrong shape. The photo on the beach appears to show a spire or tower and low buildings in the far distance. Sorry I haven't a clue

I think the School Friend lasted until the 1950's. One of my sisters must have taken it for me to remember.

Those leopard skin trunks really are something else. Just a thought, instead of a world renowned entertainer could he have become something else. Mass Murderer, Politician, Banker or some such unsavory character. Rupert I remember some derelict brick buildings at the eastern end of Minehead...

Old-Maps.co.uk may be worth a look.

It would have been around 1980 and my first Mrs decided we would have a goose for Christmas dinner. In goes the 14 lb goose a.m Christmas day, it had cost a fortune. Halfway through cooking the electric cooker blew up. Had to go to the stepsons house 5 miles away to finish the roasting. We had...

Local sports leagues for both cricket and football teams are still alive and well out in the rural Counties. No famous names, just people of all ages enjoying a sport they enjoy. It can be tough making your way into some of these teams even at this low level.Take a look in your local paper and...

I was born after the war in 1950. The generation that fought that war have always had my respect for it has meant in my 60 years I have never had to fight or go hungry ,and until the recent tribulations life has been pretty comfortable compared with my ancestors. As a kid a four mile walk was...

No one has mentioned the other piece as in " If you don't behave yourself I will give you a piece of my tongue ". It is the only piece that I can think of that nobody would want. Bread and Dripping.....yummm......Does it count as one of your five a day ? whatever that silly saying means.

The London to Brighton Veteran Car Rally was held yesterday. It seems to slip by with very little notice or publicity these days. https://www.lbvcr.com/participate.cfm

I have read or heard that sausages became known as bangers because of the noise made when they burst their skins. Some become so lively in the pan it is a surprise that Elf and Safely do not prescribe safety equipment to be worn. Cooking them slowly in the oven prevents your clothes, skin and...

Not a lot changes Lloyd. May be the sausages are prepared in better conditions but they still have lots of filling. As to waste you can say that about the chicken, the only thing not used is its cluck. Before the days of refrigeration meat was often on the turn when sold and cooks were adept at...

I find Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall can cook just about anything and I recalled him cooking limpets. This recipe looks quite tasty. https://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/juan-s-limpet-stew-07-11-08_p_1.html Given the chance I will go to the beach and drink beer...

I think it was a coach builders called Harringtons that put the fin on the rear of their coach bodies. I can only recall Harper Coaches ( pale green ) in the fifties using them but there had to be more. The fin was part of the ventilation system. It looked very Art Deco...

Where I worked they were still using those "War Finish " machines in 2007. Well built machines that lasted well if looked after. ( Mind you we had a "Somua" lathe dated 1914, part of WW1 war reparations).

Six very good reasons for keeping your mouth shut when the urge to pontificate about something becomes very strong. Even the Great and the Good can open their mouths wide enough to get both feet inside.:blush:

Any body remember Mucklow Brothers, Narrow Lane , Halesowen. The chap behind the shield is Albert Weston, father of my late mrs and son of Tom Weston who played for Aston Villa before and after WW1. Tom was a Cup Medal winner in 1918 and 1920. The photo was found after Lynne had died.