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Pinner Sorting Office
The photographer is standing on the road just outside Pinner sorting office.
I worked for this post office as a "Christmas Casual" in 1962 and the crafty regular postmen dumped all the unpopular rounds on the young students doing a couple of weeks casual work.
Although the sorting office was at the top of Bridge Street in Pinner village itself, my round was in Northwood Hills delivering to Alandale Drive, Lyndhurst Gardens and Avenue, and Dale Close. This was a good two miles away - and uphill too! I rode my ropey old post office bike which in those days had...
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Saturdays In The Cinema
During the Second World War, as youngsters we would look forward to the Saturday mornig matinee at the Odeon cinema (4th building on the left of photo). Entrance was thruppence (three pennies). With our pocket money we would lash out on a penny peashooter with a packet of peas, the matinee used to start with a sing-along, a cartoon, then two half-hour films, the last being a western serial.
One that I remember well ends with the good guy entering the cabin and then it explodes, next Saturday's serial shows the guy coming out of the back door just before the...
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This Is Were I Grew Up
This is were I grew up in Craigentinny in Edinburgh. I went to Christmas parties here when I was really young, I also went to big picnics from here because my Mum went to the guild here or went to play dominos and they held dances and& concerts.
I will never forget one picnic we went to. I was 5 years old and I got some money for running a race. I put it in my mouth at the same time as I was eating a bun and I swallowed it. I was takin to see a nurse who gave me a...
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A memory of Edinburgh in Midlothian by Cath Tuff
I Remember When...
It's often said that everyone has a book in them - it's certainly true that we all have a story to tell.
The exciting new book "I Remember When" from The Francis Frith Collection has enabled hundreds of people to do just that!
A stunning compilation, this book highlights some of the best stories selected from the thousands contributed to the Frith website. The result is an absorbing chronicle of British life from the Second World War to the mid 1960s. A colourful treasure trove of memories, "I Remember When" is an irresistible mix of personal stories and recollections that affectionately reveal the detail of everyday life in Britain.
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