Thought I'd pop back in after all this time. I'm in an old people's home now so have plenty of time to dawdle and recall how things used to be.
Arkady, I remember the name!
Scruffy: in 1947 we had a very hot and long summer. The embankment was black…
It used to be our local station when we lived in Florence Road in the 40s and 50s. It served the AllyPally Push and Pull. This two coach steam train went to Finsbury Park and served quite a large community. At that time Parkland Walk was simply a hi…
To the question how did we feel the park was different relaates mainly I suppose to those days we spent as children in the park. We tended to head towards the American gardens to play hide and seek and cowboys and indians, or down to the New River w…
OK, I'm back. Difficult to know where to start. Marquis asks if I've been back to SG in recent years - well - yes. Two years ago in spring we had a family get-together in Stratford on Avon and afterwards I spent a few days in London. There are certa…
Many years ago (it seems) I posted quite a few items on this forum under the name of Busby. Then, for some reason I was blocked (I hadn't done anything wrong!) and after a number of fruitless tries I forgot about it. Half-an-hour-ago it came into my…