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It was a sort of cut moquette and if you were a lad in short trousers it left a red rash on the back of your legs. Was I glad to get into long trouser https://www.flickr.com/photos/32113849@N05/3441777709/ Just take a look and dream. The photo is copywrited so I have only put the link. My...

Living on the Herefordshire / Worcestershire border I am lucky in being spoiled for choice when it comes to butchers and specialist delicatessens. If there is a chance of a bright day on a weekend the stepson gets his barbecue going and sausages are top of the list. Despite the big...

Every week is sausage week for me. I love a banger, or as Terry Wogan called them " snorkers". Being over weight ( obese, fat, excess critical mass....I don't care, who wants to live for ever and be a burden on the government ? ) they are forbidden fruit. It has to be sausages with skins, from...

Did you ever have a try at the " Win a Car " competition ? I did but never won.

I operated a Polish made " Poreba " 2 metre centre lathe. A chap came for a job and I enquired if he was aquainted with a similar lathe. He said he had operated identitical lathes badged as Churchill. In another part of the factory I worked on old centre lathes made as Churchill Denham. Some of...

I believe the Austin Metropolitan was, like the long forgotten Austin Atlantic convertible , an attempt to break into the American car market . It was all about the Balance of Payments back then. The Metropolitan was one of the first British made cars to have a built in radio.I' ve heard them...

I sent away for the Sinclair Micro Wrist Radio. It sort of worked after a fashion ! I had more luck with my crystal set radio , hidden inside a fountain pen as used by secret agents, or so the Boys Own Paper stated. And who was I to argue. On a winters night I could pick the Light Programme or...

When you face that sort of thing it re-orders you life and priorities. Just go with the flow and chill out. PS I suppose the Bungey Jump next Saturday is cancelled ? best regards .....arkrite

Most of my mates went to "Weston" which was my version of the Barry mystery. Weston sounded like western. Could it be in America I wondered ? I was 45 before I visited Weston -super-Mare and the penny finally dropped. I know I can be slow at times but 35 years is pushing it a bit.

https://www.barrywales.co.uk/theisland.htm I visited that part of South Wales about 2 years ago. The Butlins Camp has long gone replaced with modern housing. The Fun Fair hangs on staggering from crisis to crisis. Not one of my favourite places but like you Paul I had heard of the place in my...

We wuz poor but happy, in a poorish sort of way. As cadets and on Outward Bound we often made our own meals out of dried compo meals. Looking at the amount of ex War Department kit in the photos it amazing you were not doing the same. I had a great time with lads of my own age. My family was so...

Just remembered my Mom collected labels from Black and Greens Tea. We went to Birmingham centre to exchange them for a fireside companion set and a hand operated meat mincer, the type that clamped to the table. Mom was a tea addict , I recall we had all types but they all tasted the same...

Great photos. I never went on holiday as a child (HAaaaaaaagh ) but went on various Cadet camps. Wales was often the destination and in the 1960s I tramped all over. Mountains climbed, long map reading marches while either burnt by the sun or soaked by the rain. Sometimes sharing a tent with a...

As they say " There is one born every minute". Another saying "you don't get something for nothing " are wise words well worth taking notice of. In stead of racing tipsters todays conmen promise high yield investments. Perhaps Captain Hill would have given me a better return on my money than the...

https://www.qlhs.org.uk/oracle/home-guard/home-guard.htm https://www.staffshomeguard.co.uk/DotherReminiscencesWorcssstaffshg.htm I hope these are of interest.....arkrite

Harald McMillan did not make his " Winds of Change " speech until 1960 so Colonial rule was still expected to continue in the fifties. I feel no guilt as regards colonialism, it was allover bar the shouting by the time I was an adult. I have no rights to apologize for other peoples actions. The...

I find this topic common to a lot of forums I visit. People make one inquiring post , get all the info they need and disappear without a goodbye or thank you. I spend alot of time, and I enjoy it, trawling the web in the hope I can discover something which will be of help to someone. It gives me...

As a kid I sent off for a " Ten -in-One-Scope " off the back of a cereal box. Made of plastic, and likely " Empire Made", It had four lenses, a round mirror and a compass. How this gave you ten tools I have long since forgotten. How many of you sent off for " Approvals " ? these were stamps of...

Every era has its upside and its downside and it is good that we recall both. To me , born in 1950, the decade was was only marred by having to go to school. The sun always shone in the summer and snow fell in winter, or so it seemed. Only later did I learn of overt racialism, poor living...

As a lad I remember the Roll of Honour to the War Dead in every school I attended which was old enough to have one. These Rolls were to be seen everwhere...Shops ,Offices, Factories. So many have been demolished. I wonder how many were saved ?