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Wow - just seeing that map of Salop Street brought back a lot of memories - anyone remember the big"bomb hole" behind the Oxo factory? We used to play in the woodyard (Bronno's) and we had the single dwelling house right next to it - we had an orchard out back and my dad kept pigeons and chickens. Widdowson's was the chipshop - the owners lived one up on the street to us. Pat Widdowson was the daughter - a year older than me i think,

it gets very hot and humid here too - not quite as bad as down there, but Ottawa can be nasty. I don't mind it myself. A nice excuse to sit back and do nothing!! Nothing that central air can't fix!

And I think I'd be better able to handle those temperatures, Loppy!! You remember what our winters are like here in Eastern Ontario? ! I sure miss my milder Vancouver winters, where taking a two-hour drive up to Whistler to see snow was a delight. It's going to be a while before our snow has gone here, but it all balances out.

I'm with Loppylugs on this. Love isolation, me - where I live it's well over an hour's walk to the nearest shop, but only a three-minute walk to my son's home and he takes me grocery shopping two or three times a month, so I stock up. Big change from living in the city for so many years (both Ottawa and Vancouver) but worth it for the peace and quiet! (maybe it's an age thing...)

Hi, Carni I don't remember too much about that family - they lived one street over from us- the kids were older than I - more peers with my older brother than with me and we had moved to Bestwood by '59. (My brother had gone to Redhill school) Next door (but one?) to us lived the Widdowson's who had the chip shop at the bottom of the street. The Ice cream man was Mann - familiarly known as Mando.

Well, Loppylugs - I don't usually do politics on a first date, but you might want to think of heading North again!!!!!

Oh Margie - do I have to tell you? LOL Middle row far left!! Our hair was teased (backcombed) so high we had to re-sew our beret badges in order for them to be seen (and the berets were held on with two bobby pins - oops, sorry, hair grips). In order to have a skinny jim tie, we would have so much tucked in you could almost see it below the hem of your skirt (which likely was rolled over two or three times at the waist even though the mini was still a dream).

thanks, Carni - I am sure most of those folk have changed since that pic was taken. I'll have to dig out the original that has most of the names on the back. Some days my memory can bring them all to mind, others hardly any - Jeffrey Easom comes to mind. I'll rest my brain and come up with more.

Hi, Lizzie - and thanks for the welcome - Compo isn't a name that I recall - I remember a Coppo - (Copley). I lived across from St Paul's.We were the only single dwelling house on Salop Street right beside Bronno's wood yard and we had a big back garden with chickens and fruit trees, my dad had pigeons. I used to go to Arnold a fair bit, my sister lived at the top of surgey's, and my granddad still lived there- but Arnold girls used to beat me up because I wore a school uniform once I went to Brincliffe.

Brincliffe Grammar School for Girls 1963 Form 5 Alpha - Miss Smedley's class

I'm in rural Ottawa, Ontario - came directly to Ontario but lived in Vancouver for over 15 years on and off between '90 and 2009. You're in Georgia? Haven't made it that far down yet - NY furthest south in US so far.

Wow - it works!! Just a practice - Daybrook Junior School 56/57

Hi, my name is Lynnette and I lived all over Nottingham until 69 when I left for Canada. Been back a few times, but not since 95 last trip.