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Forum: General Chat 23-08-2014, 09:32
Replies: 125
Views: 7,446
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Where's Jaysay

Very sorry to hear that - RIP
Forum: Heritage and History 28-10-2009, 12:14
Replies: 74
Views: 11,903
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: English Electric Company (Clayton-le-moors).

I must have known your Mum - I worked in the RCI office 60/61 - left to join Civil Service. I well remember Denis Varley, quite a character, Edna Pullen, husband Arthur worked in another EE office....
Forum: Heritage and History 25-06-2008, 07:18
Replies: 261
Views: 24,198
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Street Names

Thank you all for the replies re Chapel St and Crawshaw St- I remember the little shop on the corner of Quarry St very well, how interesting to know it once was a chapel!! - I always wondered how the...
Forum: Heritage and History 24-06-2008, 13:57
Replies: 261
Views: 24,198
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Street Names

Any info re either Chapel Street (off Adelaide St) where I lived for few of the war years (40's) with my Mother in the smallest house you've ever seen - one up, one down, small scullery with...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2008, 09:16
Replies: 18
Views: 633
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Murdered baby 'failed'

Thank you for that
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2008, 09:11
Replies: 18
Views: 633
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Murdered baby 'failed'

I also read that there isn't even a photo of that poor baby.
I also ask - where is/was her mother?? No mention of her.
What a shocking thing it all is.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 11-07-2007, 10:38
Replies: 35
Views: 3,223
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Jingles

Handy Andy, strong little gentleman
Cleans the whole house cleaner than a whole lot of other cleaners can!!
(from the late fifties,I think)

The Esso sign means happy motoring, the esso sign...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-10-2006, 10:23
Replies: 33
Views: 1,782
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Out Lavies and Coil Sheds

good heavens - I use Middin all the time here - ie when the house is like a tip - no one knows what the heck I'm on about - good to hear it again - coil hoil and lavs and newspaper - didn't get an...
Forum: General Chat 10-10-2006, 13:48
Replies: 19
Views: 441
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Robin Hood & his band of Merry Men....

The 60's Robin Hood series with Richard Greene was terrific - Saturday teatime - I've got the darn theme tune still stuck in my head - I remember the words of the first verse and just dum de dum the...
Forum: General Chat 01-08-2006, 18:41
Replies: 51
Views: 2,989
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: how sick were you when you were growing up?

and another item I forgot to to mention - not many talk about - worm cakes - oh yes, Mum was a stickler - got them from Timothy Whites and Taylors chemist on Blackburn Road, they had a chocolatey top...
Forum: General Chat 01-08-2006, 18:33
Replies: 51
Views: 2,989
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: how sick were you when you were growing up?

Does anyone remeber a vile concoction called Scotts Emulsion - came in a huge glass bottle which I always hoped would get knocked off the shelf where it was kept, but never did. In my life, I've...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-04-2006, 14:08
Replies: 42
Views: 1,718
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Front Parlour

oh my goodness, though it was only us used Dad's army great coat on the bed - so very heavy and of course very warm, espec when we had ice INSIDE the window pane.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 20-04-2006, 13:08
Replies: 42
Views: 1,718
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Front Parlour

As I recall, the front room was used at Christmas or when the chimney in the back room was being swept, rather a long messy process in the pre-vac days! Having to eke the coal out was a prime factor...
Forum: General Chat 15-04-2006, 16:36
Replies: 40
Views: 1,109
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: that one about gay cowboys...

you western film buffs must remember 'Shane' c1953 - what a film - Alan Ladd in his heyday, cracking film, still very watchable.
Forum: General Chat 05-04-2006, 15:06
Replies: 24
Views: 542
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Tick, tick, tick.

oh it most certainly does(go quicker) - at 62, just can't believe it - where did it go? - and as someone said, catch sight of the old woman in the shop window reflection and realise it's ME - I...
Forum: Heritage and History 27-09-2005, 17:09
Replies: 6
Views: 1,454
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Hippodrome

I've heard that - Josef Locke - also heard that Charlie Chaplin appeared there in his very early Fred Karno Circus days before he went to America - that must have been early 1900's.
Forum: Heritage and History 27-09-2005, 12:17
Replies: 17
Views: 3,420
Posted By KAYJAY
Re: Oldest part of Accrington.

I used to visit a friend who lived in High Riley Cottages in the fifties - the last cottage going up the lane - used to think even then how wonderful and full of character they were- they looked...
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