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Aug 13, 20232 min read
Team Sports for Everyone
Football was a game played exclusively by boys
Jul 29, 20233 min read
Your favourite Disney films?
An apology and an explanation
Jan 1, 20226 min read
Christmas week
My parents were very sociable. Every year, in the week before Christmas, Robinsons Brewery would deliver a barrel of their special mild...
Dec 31, 20216 min read
Christmas – final preparations!
One of my favourite Christmas activities was going to the different fairs, fetes and sales which every local organisation seemed to have...
Dec 21, 20214 min read
Christmas - the build up
Time travel is powered by the sense of smell. The scent of cloves instantly carries me back to Nana who is lifting the lid of a pale blue...
Nov 7, 20215 min read
Bonfire Night!
The excitement of a 1950s Bonfire Night
Jul 30, 20218 min read
Holidays
The start of the school holidays had that special Friday evening feeling.
Jul 17, 20216 min read
Moving into Top Class - and the dreaded 11+
Somehow, impossibly, my eldest grandson will be moving into his school's top class after the summer holidays. This sparked all the mixed...
Jun 27, 20216 min read
Real Trains
‘If you fell in there you’d be dead in two minutes’ said a voice very close to my ear. Instinctively I pulled back although I wasn't in...
Jun 13, 20214 min read
Ballet classes
When I was seven I was taken to see a film of the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Swan Lake starring Galina Ulanova. I was enchanted. I...
Jun 5, 20216 min read
Weddings
When my mother told me that my uncle Bert was getting married and that I was to be a bridesmaid, I was ecstatic. I was finally going to...
May 21, 20216 min read
Pets
Not long after my appendix operation, it had been agreed, after much pestering, that I could have my own dog. There had been a few...
May 13, 20212 min read
Lovely posting!
Came across this lovely posting in a Facebook group 'Growing up in Cheadle Hulme' EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES Pasta had not been...
May 9, 20219 min read
The new NHS
I didn’t see much of the winter games at school when I was five. In January I was rushed into hospital in the middle of the night to have...
May 1, 20215 min read
Money
My parents had grown up in poverty during the worst years of the 1930s Great Depression. My mother was one of four children and as her...
Apr 24, 20218 min read
Housework
Before I started school there were some days when essential and time-consuming chores meant that my mother and I couldn’t visit the...
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Cinema
Even in a small community like ours, there was a cinema within walking distance. Cheadle Hulme’s own cinema must once have been quite the...
Apr 11, 20217 min read
Furniture
One of the most memorable features of ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was the wardrobe portal itself. Its description reminded me...
Apr 2, 202110 min read
Grandmothers
(My grandparents are wearing dark clothes) Both of my grandmothers lived in St. Helens, Lancashire. Marriage or possibly the need to go...
Mar 27, 20215 min read
Easter and Whitsun
At Easter each year Nana came to stay. Nana was a devout catholic who did her best to stop me from going to hell by taking me to church...
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