Nostalgia

K is for Wrestling

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. No, I haven’t lost my grip on the alphabet. K for me will forever be associated with wrestling as I shall endeavor to explain. The wrestling I enjoyed watching wasn’t the [...]

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Monkeeing Around

Thursday, 1 March 2012

I have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of media coverage of the death of Davy Jones. Obviously I expected the sad news to be reported, but there has been wall-to-wall coverage, news programmes playing the many Monkees hits and even an hour long phone-in on Radio Five this morning. Losing someone who brings back [...]

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Photographic Memories

Thursday, 8 December 2011

My reminiscences of pantomimes earlier this week also brought back memories of the start of my lifelong interest in photography. I have been hunting round for some of the photos I took of one of the shows when I was about 14. Fortunately for you, I couldn’t find them — they weren’t very good.

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Z is for Zetland Street

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

I have very fond memories of this house on Zetland Street in Dukinfield. It was the home of my Grand-aunt Alice, sister of my maternal grandmother, and her husband, Uncle Charlie. We were regular visitors when I was young and could look forward to some of the best home baking prepared by Auntie Alice in [...]

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Never Go Back

Friday, 11 March 2011

They do say you should never go back, but sometimes the invitation is irresistible, especially if you’re given the opportunity to re-visit the house where you grew up which you haven’t seen for the best part of 50 years.

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All I Want for Christmas II

Monday, 20 December 2010

After flirting with the contemporary yesterday, today’s festive offering is entirely nostalgic, albeit the track titles are somewhat similar. The year was 1963 and the country was in the grip of Beatlemania. Jumping on the passing bandwagon was Lancashire lass, Dora Bryan, with All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle. My sister loved it [...]

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Marriage Made in Heaven

Sunday, 29 August 2010

Fish and chips were a bit of a treat when I was a lad. Maybe once a week I was sent to Pearson’s chippie with a deep dish to collect the family’s meal, getting a bag of batter scraps to eat on the way home as a reward. As I grew older, this great delicacy [...]

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Chunky Monkey

Friday, 20 August 2010

I don’t receive many presents (awww) but when I do, they’re memorable, Sometimes quite literally. Yesterday I was given a small box of sweets that whisked me back to my childhood. They’re the pineapple chunks that I’ve posed in a jar on the left. Fifty years ago they were a treat from Mrs Taylor’s toffee [...]

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D is for Duck

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Or rather the ducks plural that gave the town of Dukinfield its name and where I grew up, or as grown up as I’ve ever managed to get. Dukinfield means the ‘open land of the ducks‘ from the Old English duce and feld. There is another theory that it translates as ‘field of the raven‘ [...]

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