Days  to  Remember

  
In these pages you will find a selection of anecdotes of days that have remained in my mind over the years. They include Schooldays, Car rallies,  Soccer, Jobs, Friends, and many other things besides. They cover the period 1945 to the present. Where possible, the appropriate images have been added. New pages will be added from time to time.
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Old Bill's Boat 1962  NEW

Southampton Balloon  Festival 1990  NEW

 
 

Trams Trains Boats & Planes 2009   NEW

Scandinavian Cruise 2009  NEW 

 
 

Wednesday Afternoons 1947-1955

Sunday Afternoons in the Leasowes 1950's  

 
 

Lineside Family Picnics 1952 onwards

Honeymoon 1965  

 
 

G4MJ

Meccano Dinky Toys & Hornby trains 

 
 

A near thing at Sling Pool 1945

 Barrage Balloons & Bomb Craters 1945

 
 

 Sunnyhurst 1942-1947

 Pudding Brook 1945

 
 

 Blackpool North Shore 1945

 The School Run 1947-1955

 
 

 Blackpool 1946-1989 

School Lunch breaks 1950-1955 

 
 

 Osteomylitis of the Sacral Vertebrae 1950

 Trouble at Weymouth 1952

 
 

 School Trip to Lancashire Cotton Mill 1954

 Working on the Dudley Zoo Railway 1954

 
 

 A broken carriage window 1954

 Music Interests 1955 onwards 

 
 

 Railways Careers Officer 1955

 Bonfire Night 1955

 
 

 Butlins Holiday Camp Pwllheli 1957

  Youth Club visit to Chatsworth 1957

 
 

 Driving Test 18th July 1958

St Peters Lapal Youth Club 1957-1960 

 
 

 21 goals in eight days 1959

Morris Minor to Clacton 1960  

 
 

 Mel Torme at the Coventry Hippodrome 1961

 Rail Excursion to Windermere 1962

 
 

 Car Rally over the Welsh Mountains 1962

 Thomas Walker Ltd 1962-1965

 
 

Monday evening Jazz Club 1962 to 1964  

Pipe in the Water 1963  

 
 

 Happy days 1965 & 1974

Watneys Brown at Cranages 1964

 
 

 First flight..Luton to Palma 1964

 Moving House 1968

 
 

 Sam Brown

 Florida & Disney 1980

 
 

 Grand Bahama Island 1980

 Holland 1981

 
 

 Up the Jungfrau 1981

 Boppard & the flooded Rhine 1983

 
 

 Iona 1984

 London Short Break 1984 

 
 

 April in Paris 1986 

 Rhine Cruise 1986

 
 

Lugano 1986 

 Florida & Epcot 1988

 
 

 New Orleans 1988

 Miami Airport 1988

 
 

 New Providence Island 1988

A spot of bother on the Rigi Mountain 1990

 
 

Daylight Robbery in Montreux 1990 

 Last of Summer wine 1993

 
 

 Coventry Cathedral ceremony 1995

 Planes over the Mawddach 1996

 
 

 Llandudno and the Conwy Valley 1999

 A sunny day on Anglesey 2004

 
 

 Three Ring tailed Lemurs 2006

My Blackpool Finale 2007  

 
 

My Cars 1961 to 2008

 Mediterranean Cruise 2008

 
 

Favourite & Least Favourite Films

Favourite & Least Favourite TV Programmes

 
 

Best & Worst Uk Hotels 1965-2008  

Best & Worst Non Uk Hotels 1965-2008  

 
       
       
 

 
       
 

Website commenced November 2008.  Latest update October 2009.