The Joy of Reading The way by which little words on pages stir your imagination and resurrect yesterday pass to your brain. In the process, they endow themselves with rich, warm life, and all that has been is again, you hear poets sing. The love of storytelling came to me […]
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Hair Care, 1940s Style as I recall it.
THE BARBERS! A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father) took a boy to be almost scalped, and to indulge himself in a masochistic act of being singed across the back of the head with a flaming taper. This practice went on at least […]
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Hello to everyone who enjoys reading my Blog, again I would like to say a big thank you, as it’s always fun to get an email or a comment on something I have posted. I have had a few more comments left on the posts recently and I hope this […]
Read moreIs There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel?
The North Street I knew is still around, you find it now through a hole in the ground. Remember old Wadhams Hill was here. Now today no Wadhams Hill, no Milner Hall, and no shops that reached up to the Chequer Ball. But what about these shops that made way […]
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