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    Christmas week
    • Jan 1
    • 6 min

    Christmas week

    My parents were very sociable. Every year, in the week before Christmas, Robinsons Brewery would deliver a barrel of their special mild...
    Christmas – final preparations!
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Christmas - the build up
    • Dec 21, 2021
    • 4 min

    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, 2021
    • 5 min

    Bonfire Night!

    The excitement of a 1950s Bonfire Night
    Holidays
    • Jul 30, 2021
    • 9 min

    Holidays

    The start of the school holidays had that special Friday evening feeling. Routine vanished and who knew what the next day might bring....
    Moving into Top Class - and the dreaded 11+
    • Jul 17, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Real Trains
    • Jun 27, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Ballet classes
    • Jun 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
    Weddings
    • Jun 5, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Pets
    • May 21, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Lovely posting!
    • May 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    The new NHS
    • May 9, 2021
    • 9 min

    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...
    Money
    • May 1, 2021
    • 5 min

    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...
    Housework
    • Apr 24, 2021
    • 8 min

    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...
    Cinema
    • Apr 17, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
    Furniture
    • Apr 11, 2021
    • 7 min

    Furniture

    One of the most memorable features of ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was the wardrobe portal itself. Its description reminded me...
    Grandmothers
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 10 min

    Grandmothers

    (My grandparents are wearing dark clothes) Both of my grandmothers lived in St. Helens, Lancashire. Marriage or possibly the need to go...
    Easter and Whitsun
    • Mar 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    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...
    Junior School
    • Mar 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    Junior School

    This is my school photo aged seven. As you can see, school uniform wasn't strictly enforced. I am wearing one of the dresses my mother...
    Waste
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 9 min

    Waste

    My father was a dedicated newshound. He bought his daily paper and cigarettes on the way to work. On Saturday afternoons he picked up...
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