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it was much more fun when we upgraded to bangers

Even better if you doubled them up for a bigger bang or 3 caps it misfired sometimes or put a few caps in beteen 2 pennies put them on...

We lost the lavender maybe that's why. The little bees goes for the spiked speedwell and cotoneaster, that was poor this year but we had...

I’ve had plenty of bumblebees. I grow lots of lavender and a few other bee friendly plants, that keeps them happy

In 1950 no. 734 was Whittngham, newsagents. By 1955 it was Mrs Elizabeth M. Turner, newsagent. In 1956 it was W. G. Smith, newsagent...

So very true, would sit with my cousins, for hours watching, the lines, from the embankment, at the bottom of my Nans garden in...

Sometimes a view of steam and smoke is enough

Sometimes a view of steam and smoke is enough

See last post - it was 1920 eroll. By 1921 he was in Leamington but will look where the Snooks were. Annoyingly it just says Station...

Long ago my Dad and older brothers (and occasionally myself, though I was very young) were regular customers of a model shop at Primrose...

You could buy “Caps” for cap guns in little rolls coiled up in a small round paper box. We used to fold them over, double or triple etc...

It was my future wife that was in the ladies Smudger, not me. :)

A number over the years, but by far the loveliest was a good while ago now in Newcastle Upon Tyne - sometime in the eighties I would...

I saw quite a few celebrities when I shopped in 1960s/1970s Brum. Derek Dougan walked past me and I knew he was famous but I couldn't...

Late 70s, me and my then girlfriend, we're babysitting for her sister. In walked Tony Iommi, to pick up some trousers she'd made for...