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When I was around 6 or 7 I do recall being in the infant school, but not the first year. A boy in my class showed me a small green bottle about the size of smelling salts. It may have been much smaller, but way back then, and even now I kind of see it. He had brought from home, I said what’s in...

Just a added note Student nurses that were training for their SRN did not have placements for geriatric care at Summerfield.

Roger I would say at a guess SEN .I was in set 3 of pupil nurse training.. It was a new venture that incorporated general, and elderly care training together. Before that I believe the SEN was just elderly focused. I started in 1967, and the venture started 1966. RGN or SRN did not have to go to...

Richard more innocent days back then also. Regarding happy days I was a very nervous kind of child. However, back to the coal fires. I was born 1947, and around about then my Mother had the coal fire place put in. Before that apparent it was the black fire range type. My nan apparently cooked on...

Hope this gives you all a chuckle with all the doom and gloom. I started my SEN training now defunct in 1967at Dudley Road Hospital. I remember that we were observed doing a bed bath before they let us loose on our own, 2 green as grass trainee nurses, I male patient, I bowel, 2 flannels. I...

Noticed on this thread about coal fires. We had what was called the coal hole right next to the bathroom in the kitchen. I remember the coal merchants coming down the entry carrying sacks of coal. Also can recall Mum, and Dad looking for any burnable coal among what was called the slack. We went...

January 1982 my husband, and I were taking around 10 to 12 Sunday School kids, and adults to see Ruth Madoc in Panto. Cannot the panto’s name. Oldest son now 50 was 11 at the time came home from school with tummy ache, and feeling sick. However, after a good rest, and managing to eat fish...

I think it Matalan Lyn, now I know what Bob’s talking about lol So the old number 8 bus route was that at one time a ring road route?

Thanks Bob I have been known to get lost when I drive especially with the Husband, by myself I stop and ask !!

Well my sister in law once was married to a Frenchman. We used to go annually to see her in the South of France. One year we were invited to some of their friends house. While there I had to use their loo which was inside, to my utter amazement it was all tiled beautifully, but it was a hole in...

Well I lived in Cranbourne Road, the back gardens of Cranbourne , and Hurlingham Met . I do believe my parents moved in around 1936/37. Your Mum would have been one of the first people on the estate then. I live in the next district now, and sometimes drive down Hurlingham, the trees planted on...

Bob I can be thick lol. So where is the A4040 Can you give me a landmark.

What I cannot understand a decision which I now believe has been put back to December, and may well be put back further Is to have the clean air zone enforced by a congestion charge. One point of the zone I believe starts around the inner ring road by the Newtown swimming, and fitness centre.m...

Going down memory lane my thoughts returned to my parents having a outside toilet even up to 1983. I was a child frightened of the dark, we lived in a council house in Kingstanding. The bathroom was off the kitchen, and next to that was what my mum called the coal hole. Across from the...

Actually no, the strange thing is I know when a word is spelt wrong, but often I cannot visually spell it. The other problem which I don’t speak about much lol is pronouncing some words. When I was a child carnation, and coronation for some reason I mixed up. Even stranger is one of my grandson...

Had a quick look on the net, and see if this helps, go to setting, and look for language which you have appeared to have done. Have you saved English. Sometime on computers it may show, but you have not saved the preference.

If I remember correctly the 11 plus exam came in two parts. I passed the first part, but not the second. Consequently I landed up in a secondary modern school, and retook the exam again at 12/13, and again failed. The reason according to my teacher was that my spelling, again let me down...

Hi Pam started my SEN training 1967 DRH. It was a new course ran by the Nursing School I was in set 3. Many years later did a conversion course for my RGN at Wolverhampton University , but nothing really measures up to the DRH nursing school way back then.

I’m not sure when I actually starting working on the factory floor at IMI. At a guess 1966. I used to inspect tuner boxes which were produced for television sets. Very occasionally I had to inspect what came of the power presses which was very daunting. I also remember moving departments, and...