Thomas

ey ya gorret on ya,: Are you in a bad mood

I can't remember ever seeing you there. ha!

Wrong:Tastes like Roe Deer

Damson Tree. Damsom Plum: Prunus Domestica. You can make exellent damsom jam.

Thanks lynmee, I went to both of them in the 50s.

Thanks Poohbear, I think the last film I saw there in the 50s was Tommy Steel in Butterfingers, in 1957 I think. Another question for you: There was also a picture house at the bottom of Bath St near the Salvation Army building and opposite Bath St park where Bendigo is buried. I only lived up the road at 4 Union Cottages Union Rd, would be very grateul if you have more info Regards: Thomas Leeming

Anybody out there who remembers The Cavendish Picture house on St Anns-Well Rd, I think it was called that anyway.

Thanks to all who have posted photos on this topic,they really do bring back memories both good and bad, but mostly good.

Thanks Poohbear, your a star.

I think there used to be a cinema opposite Victoria Railway Station, I am now going back to the 1950s does anybody remember if there was one or not, or is it in my imagination.

I remember it well,as I used to live at 4 Union Cottages Union Rd which was just off Huntingdon St.

Well said Michael...... I like it lol Some of my experiences did certainly make my hair curl......... or was it all the bread crusts I was forced to eat.

I would just like to make it clear that the Mrs Booth I mentioned is not a relative or otherwise connected with Mr & Mrs Micheal Booth who are members on this site. Also the Mrs Booth I mentioned in my Hartley Rd Childerens Home post Would now be about 120 years old,so I very much doubt if she is around anymore. Sorry if to have caused any kind of hassel. Thomas

Well to be really honest I cant remember much about Hartley Rd Childerens home I was only about 3 years old at the time. My sister told me years later,that on the day we were put into Hartley Rd homes ( Me,my 2 brother's and sister, she was 7 at the time ) that it was a cold winter's day and I was dressed in some kind of all in one red jacket and trouser suit ,and that she gave a threepenny bit to stop my bawling my eyes out. What I remember is, being put on a white rocking horse covered with lots of coloured stones. Adults walking around pointing at us kids, as though they were choosing

Times have changed,,,,,, for every toy you buy now, you get a free cornflake.

I think it was called Chlorine, atomic number 7 and symbol CI

I think we called it a Chamber Pot

I was in Hartley Rd homes for a while,in 1946.

We had outside bogs,made of timber at 4 Clayton Square Radford, no kitchen, no sink, just had bowl with cold water to wash in,we had to fetch the water from an outside tap that was in the middle of the square. A bloke with a horse and cart came every week or so to change the bog bins. Toilet paper was old newspapers ripped up in squares hanging on a nail, and if you were lucky and had the money to buy a jaffa orange you could use the tissue it was wrapped up in to wipe your botty with. Oh! and forgot to say, that we had one dim gas light above the mantel piece,thats if you had a shilling to p

Humpty Dumty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpy had a great fall,all the kings horses and all the kings men, had scrambled egg for breakfast.

I went to the picture's tomorrow,I had a front seat at the back,A lady came round with some plain cake with currants in, I ate it and gave it her back, I went straight round a corner, to see a dead donkey die, I took out my knife and shot it, and sent it bow-legged in one eye.

Skeness of course, A monkey on stick,and a good hiding, and being told to enjoy myself. LOL

Oh memories come flooding back I went Shelton St school 1957-1959 or thereabouts. Mr Spungin was my form master, I remember him as a bit of a bully, i have seen him hit pupils with his fists on occasion. I also went to woodwork classes at the annex. There were 2 teachers at woodwork classes one of them was a fairly old chap, looked about 70 odd to me at the time, the other about 40, cant remember thier names, i remember falling off the woodwork store though, and breaking my wrist in the process. I lived with my Mother and half brother at 4 Union Cottages Union Rd