katyjay

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  1. @benjamin1945 You will be pleased to know there is still a Maypole convenience store operating in Valletta, Malta.
  2. Funnily enough one of my FB friends posted 2 pics today of the inside of the sorting office. His dad worked there.
  3. I think that was the sorting office.
  4. We have eaten out twice so far in Surrey. Both times chips are with the dish, both times they have been wonderful. They are described on the menu as triple-cooked chips. They look pretty much like a crispy roast potato.
  5. I remember in the 70's, you got a 5 course meal there, for very little.
  6. By The Time I Get to Phoenix Wichita Lineman 24 Hours from Tulsa Chattanooga Choo Choo
  7. Those are the colours I remember Margie. Not that I wore them, but Chulla did!
  8. Nonna. We will be in Sicily for 1 day around Sept 4 or 5. Can you get them to turn the heat down a bit before we get there, please? We are used to heat but not walking around in it!
  9. I lived across the road from the 22 bus terminus, and remember as a little kid, visiting and chatting to certain crews on the buses while they were parked. Your memory sparked mine as I watched the conductor roll coins in the paper.
  10. Perhaps I miss counted. I meant the lady in the black dress.
  11. @Beekay. Are you extreme right and Tina 7th from left, front row? Just a guess.
  12. Little boy fishing off a wooden pier Come fish, bite fish, swim along here. Shirley Abacair's song. Didn't Annette Mills sit at a piano, with Muffin the Mule atop it? i seem to think Annette was the sister of another famous Mills man.
  13. My dad loved The Seekers. Said Judith had the most wonderful voice of any female singer.
  14. The William Crane schools, built in 1931, were of the open air type. There were 6 schools, all built inside Minver Crescent which was a complere circle. 2 infants, junior girls and junior boys, senior girls and senior boys. The field in the middle was used by all the schools. The classrooms had the bjg double doors to open up in the summer. If they had sun shades, I don't remember them. All classrooms were heated by the old fashioned radiators, I can never remember being cold, thank goodness. So they must have been efficient. the quadrangle on the other hand, was open to the elements. We cha
  15. They never had to wear one for school, Ben, whereas, we Brits wore a tie for years at school. Practice makes perfect.
  16. Not one iota! They stopped the train horns in Flagstaff. One of a very few towns to do this. The crossing gates make a noise, maybe a bell ringing, to warn pedestrians of a coming train.
  17. Travelodge in Williams has been there since at least the 50's. Still is one I do believe.
  18. Was this in Flagstaff, Stuart?
  19. Brain fart. Our omnibus edition on Sunday mornings, was The Archers.
  20. We had to have the Omnibus edition on Sunday mornings.