The article on George Redding allowed me to share this photo of my mother (nee Ingram). My Mother was born in Rugby in King Street off Newbold Road, opposite the ...
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 ...
There’s a hotel where the job centre is now, the corner of Albert Street – I can’t remember what it was called, and they used to sell chicken specs, and ...
The walking stick / sword in the photograph is from India. An officer in the British army was a friend of my Dad, and he gave this sword to my ...
For the first 40 years of my life I was resolutely based in the North of England, and I am still proud of my Northern links, but I didn’t imagine ...