The Pianoman

My Father (Rex Harvey) and Grandfather (Edward Harvey). Photo taken March 25th 1940. My Father is the one with his dad's hat and rifle. I don't know who the scruffy kid at the front of the picture is. This is very likely the last photo that was ever taken of my grandfather and I suspect that this was taken while on leave. It is most likely in the back garden of 25 Melbourne Road. He was in the Royal Engineers in France in the so called 'phony war' laying parquet floors in French châteaux. He came out of France at Dunkirk in one of the little ships in 1940 and was injured in the process. He di

I've always understood it that the locals call it Suthull but immigrants to the area call it South-well because Suthull doesn't sound posh enough for them.

Add this to my photo at #494 and it would make a 4th generation. My great grandmother Fanny Stapleton Walker, (later Smedley) b. 30th September 1873 coincidentally the same date of birth as me - not that I was born 1873 mind! Calculated guess but I reckon this picture was taken on her 21st birthday 30.9.1894. Her birth certificate here also. She didn't live too long unfortunately. She died in childbirth in 1913 aged 39.

Nostalgic age needn't be photos of people of course. From times on holidays my memories of seeing RMS Queen Mary are still as vivid today as they were then. Saw it many times. In the first photo it is in the Ocean Terminal at Southampton in 1966. (Year before it went to the US). I am on this picture as a 9/10 year old. Here is another picture taken from the beach at Hamble on Southamton Water, probably the day before the picture above. It is actually quite a long way off. This last picture taken in 1965 from the Ocean Terminal is the event I reme

OK, I don't remember this incident but I just happen to think it is a good picture and it will never happen again. Christmas 1956. My fathers eldest sister, Edna Tyler with her daughter Sue (my cousin) and me aged approx 3 months. 25 Melbourne Road. If Aunt Edna were still alive she would now be 97.

Three generations. My Mother, me, and My Grandmother. 1966, 97 Minver Cresc. I would be 9 going on 10

Don't like notifications that posts have been removed. Now I know I am missing something

He is one of my customers. He is a retired dentist. surprised to see him around Nottingham tho. He lives at Ashbourne

Midland General buses were actually painted red before they were re-named Trent. So at that time you could get a blue MGO, a red MGO or occasionally a red Trent

Now they are there as if by magic!

Problem with your links.

Just gone back to the beginning of this thread and found that there was no picture of my first car, so here it is. 1959 100E. It was an Anglia not a Pop. Still didn't make the windscreen wipers go any quicker when you went uphill though. Passed my test in that. Escort on drive is car number 2

I have what some may call private plates. They just happen to be on 1960's cars and are the registrations of that period. Many years ago I went to buy a 1967 Rover 2000 on Beeston Fields Drive. Pulled up and the registration was the first thing I saw, MAL 182E. Supplied new by C H Truman. Had to have it! I ran that car until it was no longer worth doing anything with so I broke it for spares, but that was after I had transferred the reg off. I still have it - for obvious reasons. I aint no snob! Oh and the car cost me £150!

Can see the bottom half of Freddie Frog

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Does anyone happen to know which month the 1901 census took place? I have found another issue. I had always known my grandmothers maiden name as being Cooper. But apparently her birth certificate will give her name as Florence Rose Horton. Her mother being Annie Elizabeth Horton. This I suppose doesn't mean that John Cooper wasn't her father. On the 1911 census it says that John William Cooper and Annie Elizabeth Horton had been married 10 years. It seems they were married in September 1901. I have up to now been unable to find them on the 1901 census. I am guessing that they were 'shacked u

That's his bad driving. You should check that it isn't in gear before starting the engine

That was my PSV training - what? -- 25 or more years ago. Brakes are for stopping, gears are for going.

I used to hate it down there on a Saturday afternoon. Millions of people and me squashed among them between shops and those railings on the edge of the pavement while buses and trollies were zooming up and down the road.

As I have no heirs I have briefly looked at it. I am not going to leave the house to anyone so I am going to have the money for me! Key Retirement, that are always advertising on the tele are the biggies but I had better advise, and I felt better generally dealing with The Age Partnership. They all seem to be affiliated with Aviva, who are also advertising on the tele now. The percentage that you can take out increases the older you are or special arrangements can be made if you are terminally ill. I am neither terminally ill or do I feel old enough yet to do it so I have gone no further.

I've got the toast rack to go with that - still boxed!

Doesn't seem to be a suitable category for this so I put ist ghere. I have just acquired a Roland Rhythm 77 or also known as a TR-77 drum machine. It dates from the 1970's and is intended to sit on top of an organ. I am unable to test it as I have neither organ or amplifier. Does anyone here know anything about them?

I'm not dim :-)

Read somewhere years ago that if, on their registers at the start of the new year, teachers saw that they had a Mark in their class they knew they were in for trouble

Like the picture of the B3. Yes they did run from Alfreton to Nottingham via Eastwood. Still don't remember TRB's but they must have run through Eastwood. B3 ran out of Alfreton depot along with C5 also Alfreton to Nottingham on the same route apart from a difference around Underwood and Brinsley.