From the age of about four we used to go and visit Nanny every Sunday for dinner and we used to go to the farm opposite, Boddington Farm I think. We ...
In 1929, the filling station consisted of a largish detached house, a wooden building, which was the shop and a number of petrol pumps – hand operated of course.
Just two months into my first year at Coton House I was just getting used to motorbiking to work when the Suez crisis erupted and petrol rationing was introduced. Funds ...
After realising that I needed help from the apprentice welfare office, I was worried. I had in my mind that by failing to be self-supporting my whole future again threatened ...
The late 1950s saw a change in the way petrol was retailed, whereas in the late 1920s and early ‘30s it was not unusual for filling stations to have a ...
When I was a child my father was a partner in a small general building firm. As well as various, what would now be classed as ‘DIY’ jobs, they were ...