Jill Sparrow

#36 Yes David. I knew the Amos family very well indeed. My sister was friendly with Jill Amos. They went to Peveril together although Jill was a year younger. Ron and Irene Amos were lovely people. Their children were Carole, Jill, Ian and Elaine. Ron took over the coal and haulage business from his father. Their yard was on Plantation Side. Eventually, they sold the business and moved to Matlock to keep a pub. Ron died a few years ago in Darley Dale. Ian Amos was a bright lad, probably the brightest of the four children. The last I heard, which

Brilliant news! Order the cream cakes!!

#21 And what's wrong with rum and raisin? It's my favourite!

#6 I have all the original Star Trek episodes on disk. If you look carefully, you can see that Spock wore something under his blue Science Officer shirt. Maybe, just maybe, it was a....liberty bodice!

Remember watching The Man From Uncle as a child. Ilya Kuryakin had more appeal for me than Napoleon Solo. I've always preferred cerebral characters to smarmy, smooth types. Hence my early teenage obsession with Mr Spock! Still, in many ways, my ideal chap. Pity he's not real! RIP Robert Vaughn.

#1 Just want to say how I sympathise with your plight. As someone who is owned by 4 cats, I understand the loss and anxiety you are feeling. I sincerely hope that your feline friend is located and safely returned to you. I know many on this site will echo those sentiments.

#34 The NEP has always produced good results for me when I've made appeals for family information, and quickly too. I'm so pleased you've found Pat and hope you will have a wonderful reunion. It's always a bonus when photos come to light which you've never seen before.

#108 He's someone I certainly wouldn't want. Michael Wood?....now you're talking!

We had a cold slab in the pantry, referred to as a 'thrall'. It was the place to keep cheese in a cheese dish, butter, milk, cream, cream cheese etc. My mother also went shopping every day for items such as bread or vegetables. Milk was delivered. My mother gave up her job when she married and didnt return to part-time employment until I was 14.She believed that a mother should be there when her children came home from school and have time to listen to the events of their day. Something my sister and I very much appreciated.

At the school I went to, there was no bullying among the girls. We were all bullied by the staff! Gave us a sense of solidarity!

We love em really though. I've been on tenterhooks all day, worrying about Bruno and his friend, Homer, who are at the vet for neutering. Homer is a lovely black & white boy, a stray who is so affectionate that I know he must have been someone's pet at some stage. Vet says they are both fine, have come round from the anaesthetic and I can collect them in half an hour or so. Walked out of the vet this morning and was stopped by the receptionist who pointed out the sticky label stuck to my fleece which stated 'For Neutering!' It had come off one of the cat transporters! I'd hav

I am here to !earn patience. I'm failing miserably.

#14 Cute...but I hope your head wasn't really that shape!

The father of a friend of mine flew Blenheims during the early years of WW2. He'd enrolled at RAF Cranwell at the College prior to the outbreak of war. Blenheims were widely regarded as death traps, as anyone trying to bale out of one was likely to suffer the fate of being chopped to pieces. My friend's father flew a fair few missions before being badly shot up, to the extent that his entire crew was killed. Somehow, he managed to bring the bomber back to its base although badly injured himself. That was the end of his flying career and he was discharged on medical gro

#57 Every time I think about Ben and that liberty bodice!!! Eeeee...I'll have to go and sit down, I've come over all peculiar like!

#137 I think Gibson was badly damaged as a child and it affected his ability to relate to people in general. He's typical of many who assume such roles in wartime. It's difficult to imagine what they might have done with their lives in peacetime. On the subject of Dresden, my father had an acquaintance, a strange, detached sort of man whom my mother disliked intensely. She would not have him in the house although he was public school educated and seemingly quite harmless. She said he gave her the creeps. This man had been an RAF bomber pilot and flown many m

#135 Harris has been blamed, unjustly, for the Dresden bombings at the end of the war. They weren't his idea and he initially resisted as the distance put bomber crews at risk. He was blamed for what so many found reprehensible by none other than Winston Churchill, whose idea it had been in the first place, at least according to what I've read. Shame on a man who shares my birthday for not taking the responsibility and for blaming someone else. As to showing no remorse for the loss of life caused by the bombings, Guy Gibson commented that he was sorry for the deaths of

#102 That has made me cry, as I always do on this day. We owe so many so much.

#52 Why do we need Barry Norman when we've got our very own Chulla? Errol Flynn and Dalai Lama lookalike! Hope your face is better, Chulla!

#29 Yes. This iPad is forever changing what I write!

#27 Oh yes, lots here I can relate to. I also well remember the Wheatsheaf. There has been much negative comment on this site in other threads about its current fate! I also knew Alan Parr. He never taught me but I remember when he married Miss MacDonald who also taught at Berridge. I sat my 11 plus exam in his classroom! I still have the receipt for my parents' wedding reception at The Palais in 1949. £25 or thereabouts! Incredible!

#28 Any relation to Mrs Holt who lived at 6 Chadwick Road, next to the Hardys? Mrs Holt died when I was a child but mum knew her and I believe her husband was called Clarice.

#895 There you go, I said you'd get an earlier appointment! Just call me mystic Mog! Hope all goes well and you're soon stuffing your face with cream buns!

#899 It was Marie Antoinette. Have you never noticed the resemblance between she and Carni, Ian? Its quite striking!

#25 Monkey puzzle trees seemed quite common in those days. There were a few on Bobbers Mill Road and have a vague recollection of one in front of a house on Churchfield Lane. Yes, I did attend Berridge and then Manning.