Thanks for that Pembroke, at last someone who remembers the Thompsons. That was interesting about 'Tiger Hart', I can remember adults talking of him, and I know he was a local hero in the speedway world. When we lived in Rivington Crescent in the immediate post war period, You could hear the speedway racing going on at Perry Bar track. The sound would drift away and then become very loud, according to the wind direction. As a 5 yr old, it used to scare me, not knowing what was causing it, and I'd run back indoors. At the back of our house, no 114, was Twickenam road infants school, the first school I went to. You could look into the play area from our bedroom window. The first day I was there--aged 5, I wandered off at afternoon playtime, round the side of the school, and through open double doors, I could see dozens of toddlers asleep on folding type bunkbeds, with grey army style blankets over them. I was totally puzzled by this, and wondered why they were asleep in the daytime--at school, when I and others had to be doing lessons----such as they were. It was explained to me later, that they were only 3 and 4 yrs old. In 1989, my elder brother and I did a round trip visit to all the houses and schools we went to as kids, living in Brum ie. 8 and 9 respectively. Most of these places still existed, and apart from finding the real --scale-- much smaller than remembered, things were easily recognised.---over and out---golightly.
