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We got onto the subject because I was asking about how my aunt apparently knew Kathy Staff from church. Kathy also had a relative who lived next door to one house where my parents lived.

Been visiting my parents today and my Mum said that when she was a kid Kathy Staff's mother was friends with her grandma (my great grandma) and visit her house.

These days it would probably be named " Anthony's Fish and Chip Emporium " and they'd charge you at least £5 more than the normal price for Fish and Triple Cooked chips [or warm ups as I know them as from yesteryear]

Maybe the Norman Clegg award for Mouth Manouvres he awarded Ivy was there !!!

I think they are for services to the sales of linoleum because it takes a significant effort to sell it . People struggle desperately to ask for it , they come in store bright and bushy tailed , measurements in hand , colour in mind and...

Is it ever explained what the trophies on Clegg's mantelpiece are for?

Howard and Marina wore overalls and welders masks in Variations On A Theme Of The Widow Winstanley.

Wasn't that storage space described in another episode as a washhouse? Those houses, with their odd over/under arrangements, must be a nightmare to insure! I've seen advice on the Holmfirth Community Facebook group that it's wisest to...

Hello all. My new book, SEASIDE TOWNS THEN AND NOW: A PICTORIAL VIEW OF UK RESORTS THROUGH TIME, is now available on Amazon. It is rather pricey, but that's because the images are mostly in colour, which significantly increases printing...

Mrs WM does our weekly shop, mainly because she gets up earlier than me and I have an annoying health condition that means I can't always do what I want when I want. At least it saves arguments while walking around the supermarket

If mine starts getting chatted up just shout over "don't forget you'll need to wash his socks " that generally kills any mood.

There's an elderly couple that go to our local shopping centre, they must be in their 80s. He holds her hand all the way round carrying shopping and helping her reach things, they walk around with the same shell shocked expression that...

Yes, it seems that Foggy and Truly were basically Walter Mitty characters making up stuff about what they did in their army and police careers, whereas Blamire and Seymour were just men who thought themselves superior.

How are you. Nice too see you. Clarence was a classic

I used to watch the show in the 70s when I was a kid and enjoyed it, but for some reason the Hettie character freaked me out a bit!