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For my New Year Holiday,I am going to experience the horrors of being a 10 pound tourist from the 50`s and 60`s by making the 7 week journey from Southampton to Sydney on the 10th January. Just imagine the awful conditions I will suffer . Champagne and oysters every night,beautiful women,and ....the rest I will leave to your imagination.....All attempts to imagine will be scrutinised and the winner can carry my bags onto the Q.M.2 !

How many of you saw the sunrise this morning? I spent the night in my tent and it was so cold that I was up and about in time to take this photo: I took a ride out to Dunnet Bay on the north coast and the sun shone brightly (11:30am):

Hello, as I live just up the road from where this was, always wondered what it looked like (being too young!) Just found a photo here: http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/bridges/demolished/index.html Look under Giltbrook viaduct. Cheers, Mark.

Its a bit misleading and we can only quote what is written in the registers . As Ann says , on the birth registration of Andrew Paul Bryant in 1970 , it gives mothers maiden surname as Harrison . On these birth registers you aren't given the christian names of the mother . The only way to find out her first names would be to purchase Andrew Bryants birth certificate . Cost is about £10 . It is possible that whoever transcribed the details mis-read the name . However the wedding registration for the marriage of Malcolm Bryant also in 1970, is to Stephanie M Harris . From the article on

SPOT ON MICHEAL BOOTH that answers my question also wouldnt deliver petrol to your home

That answers the question "whats blue and got 4 bums?"

a. charlesworth, was this the one you was thinking of?.

Absolutely, I had two sites with vending machines for Aladdin Pink Paraffin, most customers used it for heating their home, greenhouse or garage. The price was fixed at 2 bob/10p per vend. As the price went up the vending quantity had to be reduced accordingly. Every change had to be checked and the vending machine re-sealed by Weights and Measures.

The last game I took part of there went (as I recall): After twenty minutes I had my first touch of the football - smack in the mush - woke up in the changing room, someone took me to hospital (Was it you?), and while waiting to be seen, I fell off the trolley and broke me wrist. I decided against taking part in these games again. Tsk!

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Hi there, I stumbled across this thread, and as I worked at Mushroom Bookshop for a few years in the mid-90's, can add a little bit to it: Mushroom Bookshop started on Arkwright Street in 1972, set up by the late Keith Leonard and his then partner Chris Cook. Not entirely sure of the order of things, but at some point it moved to Heathcote Street, taking over the site of the Drury Hill Bookshop (which I presume had been on Drury Hill before that whole area was demolished to make way for the Broadmarsh Centre - anybody know?). By the time I first knew it (1990), it took up numbers 10-12 Hea

new years eve parties at our house were the front room was decorated for christmas 2 rolls of paper for fire place wall other 3 walls emutioned new years eve mum would make cakes and sandwiches egg potted meat fish past etc. sausage rolls bring your own drink we would finish of the bottles of port and serry we had fetch for christmas from the beer-off top of dunston st take your own bottle on tap from the wooden casks if dad had the money a crate of beer house was always full with all kinds of people spilling out into the front and back yards and down the terrace and at twelve we all joined ha

Told this before somewhere on here but heard a Mr Skill talking re his relation who started the firm, if you remember there was a big yard at the back of the shops with fuel pumps painted I think red and yellow? Any way his story went thus,The original Mr Skill sold fish, not sure if he had a shop or sold from his small lorry that he took to collect fish from the trains at Victoria Station, On his way to Derby where he sold such around the Beeston/Long Eaton area he'd see people WALKING to work at Chilwell Depot and British Celanese Spondon, he'd gave them a lift, and they'd give him a tip

Condoms Is the money for the condom machine Johnny Cash?

Don't forget ciggys, all sorts of chocolates. And also those funny balloons in gents toilets. I've a confession to make. OOOOOOOOHHHH! I'm blushing at this. When I was at school, our metalwork teacher fancied the pants off the domestic science teacher. So he'd give us work to do then clear off up to the Domestic Science Room for some silly reason. So me and a mate would go into the storeroom and cut some half crown size and shaped pieces of metal, get it milled and that night use it on the ciggy machine at the top of Aspley Lane. You put in two fake half crowns and got twenty senior se

The football games i recall were the ones near the cricket pavilllion when it seemed every kid in the meadows was on one side or another ability didnt matter

Christmas cracker Aphorisms, ( and I can't pronounce it right every time) APHORISM: (“A short, pointed sentence that expresses a wise or clever observation or a general truth”). 1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. 2. Money will buy a fine dog but only kindness will make him wag his tail. 3. If you don't have a sense of humour you probably don't have any sense at all. 4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs. 5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. 6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afrai

Is anybody else missing first bit of this site .could someone remind me where the meet up is on wednesday although we havent met yet i think i can find you ill look for a lady with one shoe sat next to a man with jam jar glasses talking toa bloke that looks like santa oh and a bloke with a bruised shoulder still getting dressed.should i wear handcuffs and come with a gaurd because i dont want to look odd.

Sorry tgc in future anything i might suggest that people try that involves movment i will add except TGC i must also get you to sign a disclaimer form.mind you i dont think you could do much damage sky diving .H

Answering my own question in #191 . We did have a baby seat when ours were young . See photo below of our eldest from 1974 in the back of a '68 Vauxhall Victor but they weren't like the ones of today , that they have to use up to the age of 12 . After our kids out grew those babyseats , as far as I remember they were left to their own devices , rear seat belts for kids weren't mandatory till the late 80s .

I think that's the answer Meanwhile, back to the original question from jimbo, I'd forgotten about this but it may help him.