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As a toddler in the early 70's I have fond memories of going shopping with my mum. Cross Street and Hyde Road are unrecognizable today compared to how the were. There was still some heavy engineering as well. I remember standing by the railings In Peacock Street Primary school as Massive engines slowly traveling down Gorton lane with Police escorts.
Of course there was Belle Vue, endless terrace streets with Pubs and ...see more
The posting by Edwin has brought back many memories of the1940's. I know exactly the locations described in his "memory". The hut was owned and operated by Johnny Irvine. Johnny only had the use of one arm, but could wrestle big jars of sweeties with his good arm to sell to the children. I well remember "the huts" and also remember Marion Matheson (who went to school with me) and who was Edwin's neighbour). ...see more
Time has passed quickly and over the years my brother, husband and son passed away. Wonderful memories return as I view this picture. My husband took part in the Penarth Gilbert and Sullivan production of Rudigore and later in Canada became the musical director of severaI local choirs e.g the Barbershoppers. I attended Glamorgan Teacher Training College in Barry, and after a three year training course ...see more
Tom and Doris Drew owned this garage and lived their with their daughter Brenda
Peter and Valerie Channon lived in this house around 1956 until the late 70's with their three children. Peter owned and ran the local machine tool factory and put on a yearly bonfire display with fireworks.
Before this shop was Taylor's it was Roy and Joan Alwards (my in-laws) They lived in the adjoining house with their two children. They owned the shop from around 1953 to about 1962 and have many happy memories of the village and some especially lovely customers. Frank Sawyer, the author and broadcaster lived opposite the shop with his wife and son Tim. The local bobby was called Peter Carter who ...see more
I have very fond memories of growing up in Aveley.
I was born in a prefab in 1947 at 4 East Walk, my dad worked at Thames Board Mills clocking up over 30 years of service (he died in Field Road in 1970), like everyone born there I attended Primary School and the Junior school and entered Bushy Bit in 1958, what a great school, glad to know I am not the only one who enjoyed their early teenage years.
We ...see more
I visited the old Culpho Hall in the 1950s, full of dark wood and sloping floors.
In 1963 it was clear from the road that all the roof structure had been removed, together with windows, you could see the sky from the top windows; part of the façade had been retained.
Visiting the rear, the old hall had completely disappeared, the site was clear and flat, without building materials new or old. The remains of the façade was propped on giant props. A.Ditton
My twin brother Brian and I are Barking born and bred. We were born at 10 King Edward Road in May of 1936 (now 81) where we stayed until about 5 years old when our parents moved to 43 St Erkenwald Road off Ripple Road opposite what was to become DOES clothing store where their son Dennis became a school chum of ours at Eastbury School.
We were schooled firstly at Westbury ...see more
Personal History of Jack Wright, son of Thomas Roger Wright and Mary Gibson.
Born November 15, 1908, in a suburb of Sunderland, Durham England, a place called Ayers Quay, in the industrial part of town, being near the docks on the River Wear, where coal was loaded on ocean going vessels to all parts of the world. I remember the gas works and the bottle works and the many railway lines, the electric power station.
I lived in Ilford Lane when this happened. We heard fire appliances going past most of the night as I believe they were bringing in water tankers from as far as Tilbury. I remember reading that fire watchers were called out to nearby buildings for the first time since the war. The 691 and 693 trolleybus routes ran past our house. I know they were disrupted but I still got to school although I can't remember if it ...see more
I was flicking through this site and was amazed to come across this photograph that features my mother Joan Sington (nee Phillips) along with her Spaniel 'Major'. The picture was taken before my mother had my elder brother Jonathan (in 1944) and looking carefully at her, I would assume it was taken before she was married in 1942. Major was given to her for her 21st birthday (June 1940). Prior to marriage, she ...see more
From the ‘Local Chit-Chat’ column in the Newbury Weekly News, October 6th 1966
SWAN AT NEWTOWN CHANGING HANDS
Due to take over the Swan Inn, Newtown, when Mr R. C Coxworth retires on October 19th after 23 years is Mr David Foster, a partner of T. N. Foster Ltd, of Clere Chase, Burghclere who is leaving the family business to take over the Inn. Married with three sons Christopher ...see more
Shureys the shoe shop
Mrs James the bakers
Petrol station and the paper shop I remember it well
I was very lucky to grow up at The Cottage Twiggs lane marchwood , i was Michele Ingram then ! we had a lovely place to grow up and being cut off by the bye pass it was a place where everyone knew each other . The people I grew up around Bundays, Seviers, Smths, Nobles Strides,Dellers, Butts and Longmans to name but a few!
My happiest days were playing in the forest , we live on Barker-Mill ...see more
In 1954 atthe age of eleven I joined the south Featherstone school choir, our music teacher was called Ronald Nuttall, who came from South Kirkby,
I can remember two occasions when we came to Kirby ,one was to give a concert for the Derby and Joan club at the Methodist church and the other time was when we decorated up a double decker bus and took part in the Gala parade then we went to a big field and sang to ...see more
I was born in Lewisham Hospital and went to St Stephens school, left in 1959 after l did the 11 plus and we moved to Marden Kent, l think my Father knew he was sick and he died in June 1963. Our lives were very ordinary as were all others at that time, we were always at the Royal Naval association clubs, first at Belmont Hill then to Slaithwaite Road, my Father was Secretary of Lewisham club and treasurer of Woolwich, ...see more
I was born in Ash Road Dartford in 1929, moved to Miskin Road about 1934, then to Halford Way, where we spent the war, and from where I left to get married at Holy Trinity Church in 1951. Earliest memories were of Miss Jolly comforting me when I started at the C of E. Primary School at the bottom of West Hill aged five, in tears.
When the then Duke of Kent paid a visit to West Hill Hospital we were ...see more
hi, robert [nobby] jordan, born temple hill in 1949 and now live in australia.
have great memories growing up in dartford, especially going scrumping as a.
kid at an orchad near the old chalk pits close to stone house.
have great memories hanging out at the wimpy bar and scala
left dartford 50 years ago and still remember my first love who lived
just off the top of east hill, like every body in life i ...see more
I am trying to find out about my family history and my fathers family were from Bedwas, they worked in the mines and for the GWR..My father Stanley was born in 1907. His parents were Charlotte and James Morris. He had many brothers, Charles , henry,Reginald, clement,Albert and James, and one sister Dorothy. She married a Roland Tyler. Albert married 'Margo' and James wife was known as 'Topsy'. Reginald was a ...see more
Many happy times at Tribalis cafe with the D'angelo family. My dad was one of the part time drivers among many that I recall. Went to school with Paul and Philip. Vito and dad were great mates.
My family worked at the Folly House in the 1700's and 1800's. They lived in a row of the farm cottages. Their surname was Hawtry and although there are now only two cottages remaining, there is a road off Watling Street called The Hawtrees, spelt rather differently but named after the family. One of my relatives Thomas Hawtry climbed out of his bedroom window and took himself to Canada. There he ...see more
In the late 50's, early 60's, my home as a young boy was in the flat above The Book Club (white building on the right). My father worked in The Book Club for an Elese Santoro.
Does anyone remember this shop, the owner and has any pics of the shop close up?
Unfortunately, when I was 10-ish. I was not into taking photos of old buildings.
Nicholas Back
My name is Barry Felton and I was born in Feniton, what is now called Old Feniton, in 1945. My grandparents, Norman and Phyllis Wilson ran the Post Office in the village. My mother Patricia, their daughter, was in the WRNS based in London, and she moved to Feniton when she became pregnant and was discharged on compassionate grounds.She stayed with my grandparents and I was born in the Post Office. I have very little ...see more
Hello does anyone remember St Albans Catholic School on Hall Street in Macclesfield? They had infants and older years i think but certainly up to about 9. I am trying to find just about anyone who remembers this school before it was pulled down. I used to go there in the late 40s and into the 50s. I would love for anyone to share their experience of this school and do you ...see more
I was born on the 13 February 1957 at No2 Station cottage Escrick. No.2 was the middle cottage of 3.
My father (Kenneth Hudson) was a fireman/driver on L.N.E.R. steam locos. For along time we had no electricity in the house, Lighting was by gas light or candle. There was no running water, That had to be delivered everyday in 4 milk churns which were dropped at the station behind the cottages. These 4 milk churns of ...see more
I am looking for former location of Mc/MacDonalds fruit shot, also 343 Bank Street know it is near to Eagle Inn
I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962.
We heard the cuckoo every year.
In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood where Thackeray Court now stands, the overgrown grounds of the Nuffield Nursing Home.
I visited the disused Fox Reservoir where I found woodcock, kestrels and warblers. Now it is the Fox Wood nature ...see more
I remember seeing CITY OF TRURO come through one evening. It had been taken out of Swindon museum and restored. I also remember seeing the BROWN BOVERI GAS TURBINE on several occassions. It had been ordered by THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY but delivered after nationalsation. Also THE GWR railcars (flying bananas). Jacobs ladder West Ealing was also another point of observation. Here you could see ...see more
I moved to Park Lane in 1948.I was about 2 years old.Lived there with my Family till about 1956.It was all fields at the back of our house.At the top of the road was the Junior School I went to.It had about 4 class rooms.I can still remember how young my Mum and Dad looked then,as if it was now.At the bottom of Park Lane was the main road,with hardly any traffic at all.We used to wait for my Dad there to come home from ...see more
In the fifties I was mad on trains, steam ones that means!
My viewing places were Hanger Lane, Haven Green, Acton Yard and Castle Bar Park Halt
I also visited Acton Central and Willesden Junction.
I still occasionally go on steam tours, the last on from Ealing to Stratford on Avon in 1994 behind the loco Nunnery Castle!
I have such happy memories of Ranmore school from 1945 until 1952
Miss Piper and Miss Martin, such excellent teachers, got me through my 11+
The dinner lady, Louie Luff, always gave me second helpings.
Using my sweet coupons in the post office on Fridays, punching Georgie Mackay on the nose for trying to steal my sweets !
Walking up through the woods from Yew Tree Farm to catch the bus across the common.
Such a happy and rewarding childhood.
I spent many summer holidays at Talacre in my Grandads 2 caravans in the late 40s and 50s. He had a large plot in the dunes, opposite was a very steep sand hill where we collected old bullet cases.
Also just by it there was a lovely wooden bungalow where a retired vicar lived the garden had roses
round the gate and fence
Just to the side of us was a neat bungalow where a family lived the father worked ...see more
IN 2008 I visited Doveridge to find any remnant of my great grandfather Henry Fenwick Pickering. His grave, "erected by public subscription" lies beside the pathway to the door of St. Cuthbert's under its enormous yew tree. No one I talked to remembered that Doveridge had had a cooperative store. My great grandfather managed that store for 3 years before his death at age 47 from a ...see more
Hello!
Help wanted! In tracing my family history, I have been given many old photographs, and one of them shows my grandfather (Albert Badnell) standing outside his shop.
I believe it may be where the general store is in Belmont Road, but can anybody confirm this for me?
The shop in the photo is definitely on a corner.
If anyone has any other information about the Badnell pits or other family history, I would love to hear from you!
Thank you,
Linda Vipond (nee Badnell)
I attended St. Mark's from 1953-57. We lived on George Lane. As well as Fanny Briggs and Mr. Thorpe, I remember a Mrs. Needham and particularly Laurie Sargeant, who took the class below Miss Briggs. I remember a few names from my time there - Kay Palfreman and her brother - they lived on Brookfield Avenue and Marie Wolfendon who lived down on the Mill Lane estate, Roy Higginbottom who had almost white hair, ...see more
I enjoyed Reg Ware’s reminiscing of Wealdstone and the YMCA. I know all of those places like the back of my hand. I am guessing you are perhaps 3 or 4 years older than me – I was born 1941.
I used to live in locket road. Spurriers must have been one of my very first shopping errand destinations for Mum. I would chew both ends of the bread off before I got home. Best bread ever! I ...see more
It was 4th June 1961 and John F Kennedy was due to pass by Brentford on the Great West Road. The M4 had not yet been built. I went with my friend Graham around 7pm and joined the many people sitting on Macleans wall opposite the Turriff Building. The calvalcade passed by and we started to walk away. As we did so we met three girls, Susan Geraghty, Jean Archer, and Dina. We walked up the Great West ...see more
I was an apprentice at Chastons from 1953, just after Alfred John Chaston (known as AJ) took over the business from his father. At that time there were about 70 employees, with a workshop, body/paint shop, tyre department, stores, and showroom. The workshop foreman was Harold Davies, unkindly known as 'Shorty'. The paintshop foreman was Percy Giles, originally from Cinderford. The chap in charge of the tyre ...see more
How many happy hours I spent in this park as a child, teenager and young woman. The gardens by the tennis courts were so well kept and I remember sitting on the benches there with my mother when we walked back from town. I remember hiring the clubs from the greenhouse keeper to play miniature golf on summer evenings, the duckpond too, although by then it had a railing round it, the wonderful huge oaks and beeches, and ...see more
Those balmy hot summer days on school holidays in the early to mid. 50's. Walking down the lane at the side of Haygate Cemetery, across the Holyhead Road, up Earcall Lane (picking ripe blackberries) to the Forest Glen, stop off for an ice cream. Then to tackle the Wrekin. As kids full of energy we ignored the official path and took a shortcut - straight up the side to the Halfway House then up to ...see more
My family moved in to their new prefab in 1946when i was 5. I lived in no 5 James Street there.In 1947 i remember the very bad winter when we saw roofs of some of the prefabs being blown off, aand the snow was so thick.The prefabs were so modern though, and had all mod cons compared with where we first lived in the front room of my Nan,s house in Phillipstown.
I remember the coal buckets ...see more
My mum (Gloria Hawkins) was born in Yeovil in 1942 in an upstairs bedroom of 99 Westfield Grove. She left in 1960 to work at a holiday camp where she met my dad who was from London. They married and settled in West London where they went on to have 4 children.
During the school holidays my mum would pack me and my younger sister off to stay at my nan and grandads...
Loved every minute of those times, playing in the ...see more
My sister and I were sent to this awful place in 1964 or 65 after our mother died I was 5 and my sister was 7 my memories a were not very nice as someone else has stated we had all our clothes taken away from us and had to wear plain shabby dual clothes, we were made to eat food we didn't like and could not leave the table until, everything was eaten even if this had taken us hours my sister and I were not ...see more
I was born in 7 Ellenborough road my dad was Jim Perry my mum was Elsie Perry nee Spencer, we were and still are a very large family consisting of nine children.
My dad was a real character who did anything from totting to demolition to support us.
Nothing my dad did ever surprised us from bringing home a double decker bus to walking a pony through to our backyard
A lot of the residents in the road ...see more
I was born in 1955 and lived in Cwm, the village at the bottom of the mountain with Manmoel on top of it. We actually lived in Canning Street, which was about a mile from The Rhiw (pronounced Ru), which is what we called it. It was a long hilly road that took us to the top of the mountain (not sure how long the road was, but it was quite a climb). We then had a further walk to Manmoel Village where the park was, ...see more
I too was at Alma Rd 1950 -54 then on to Bexley Lane until end of Dec; 55 I started in a B1 then dropped down to C1or2 my name is Melvyn nick name 'Boney' Of the teachers anyone remember
Stone he love to throw chalk and he'd run up when administering the slipper! and what about Cooksie
who was in his 70s and used to play for Millwall he took us for english and sport. most kids diddn't
have their own boots so ...see more
I find myself in Turnchapel as a result of a sailing event and decided to look the place up on the internet .... Having read the memories of a person posted here in the war .... I find myself possibly in the same pub .
A small pub up a hill and it's been here a long time ... Great selection of beer and food excellent .... No singing when I was there .
The doors next to the Gladstone arms was the blacksmiths shop this is were i had to leave my bike when i went to combs ford school 1947 to 1953.Mr Stamers was the blacksmith he lived next door.
Mr Oby Barber was the manager this is were i learned to swim in 1946 in the small pool.it was not heated then in May it was-------cold but we still went in if mums would let us.
I am researching the history of the Caravan site at Cowden in East Yorkshire; part of a bigger project. My grandfather bought a caravan at Cowden, around 1962. It was a small, round roofed thing, lovingly christened "Rollo". It was his pride and joy and the family, including myself as a small boy, spent many a happy weekend there. Does anyone remember the site owners' name for that time? There ...see more
Hi yes I remember the smell from the Trebour factory it smelt of lovely sweets, that was in the 1950s when I went to school at shafsbury.
There is a short video of the old school in Iron Mill Lane, Crayford entitled: St Paulinus School old building on Iron Mill Lane, Crayford.
My name was Ann Beese and I was born at 60. Bath Road, Quarry Bank.
We moved to Montgomery crescent when I was young and then to 32, Bobs Coppice Walk.
Myself and my two sisters ( Christine and Rosemary ) spent many happy days playing with our friends down the wood opposite our house.
We spent hours playing in the park.
There was a paddling pool in the park and a see saw, giant slide.
There used to be a ...see more
I was a pupil at the school during WW2
We stayed at Lower Holt Farm with the Everett family.
Our names were Ronald and Roy Spears.
Anyone out there remember us ?
Pupils at school I remember are as follows.
Frank Herring,Ian English,Hazel English,
Alan Crabb, Ivor Peach, Tony Stenhouse
Reg Constable ,John Constable,Christine Porch.
To name a few.
Roy Spears
Not sure of the year it was in the 1970;s my dad told his fireman to jump, as there was to much weight on the back.Has it was going down to padiham power station.
If the fireman was you ,or you know the fireman ,or anything about it would you please get in touch .Has I would like to know more about it and what year it was .my ...see more
I was born, during the Battle of Britain, at 8, Roan Street. Our back yard bordered St Alfege's churchyard. The house is not there any more because it had to be pulled down after the war. We had several 'near-hits' and the building had become unsafe. These days, church railings stand where our house once stood.
In Greenwich Park, just behind the Maritime Museum, allotments were created during ...see more
My wife's great great grandfather served on the Royal Adelaide
My name is Frank Raper I was born in 1936 lived on Ravenscliffe Estate until 1961.Childhood days were great we were surrounded by woods and fields at that time their were no other estates in that area.Even though war war was raging in the 40s we were unaware of it and apart from having to take our Gas Masks to school and the blasts of the siren from Moorside Mill (now the INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM) we carried on regardless. ...see more
Met you Janice Morrison from Hatfeild Mead Morden Surrey during a trip to Zermatt Switzerland in summer 972.
We stayed at the same Youth Hostel and talked a whole evening .
If you see this drop me a line!
Yours
Anders
andberkal@hotmail.com
I moved into Rainham in the very early '60s in fact into Princes Park, then about 4 years later into Ingrebourne Rd then during the early '70s into Rothbury Avenue and later after I got married, into Avelon Rd during the mid '80s before leaving the area altogether.
I remember the little shop called Jacksons on Southend Rd and Kildares down Wennington Rd and the cottages along Bridge Rd. My mum worked for a ...see more
I have lovely memories of summers spent at my parents' rented house in Rhiwbina Square, a suburb of Cardiff between 1957 and circa 1961). Wonderful neighbours (I particularly recall the Shepherds who had a son about my age), piano lessons, roller skating, painting classes all on the Square. Picnics on the beach. Don't know if it's my imagination but I recall the houses around the Square as being mostly white. Happy childhood summers. Does anyone recall the place and the time?
I attended St Nicholas school (later Box Hill School) between approx 1957 and 1962. The school was co-educational and catered to children aged from about age 4 to 18. My brother was 4 and I was 7 when we started at the school. My father was at Edinburgh University medical school specialising in thoracic medicine and my mother studying medicine in london so we were sent off to boarding school. I ...see more
I have a memory from the late forties or early fifties of a De Havilland dragonfly aircraft giving joy rides from the field. do any of you old timers remember this ? . If so could you please enlighten me of the occasion , was it a fair or a village fete ?.I would be grateful of any info. Tony Ward.
In this parish in 1816 A farmer William Marsh married Eleanor nee Hunt, they had 1 child Eleanor Marsh.
William must have died, as Widow Eleanor Marsh married Thomas Baker, they had children born in the area from 1820 to 1831.
One of them, Susanna Baker married William banks of Nearby Guston in 1848. Her sister Sarah had married a William Wraight and by 1851 he was ...see more
A 1834 will of Yeoman John Greenfield or Grinfield, who died in 1834 at Horne in surrey mentions his grandson John, who in 1834 was under 21. Could this be John Greenfield of Hayes Kent's son John, who would have been about 20 and without a father.
His daughter Sarah born c1795 is also mentioned in the Will, and had married a John Clements. Their son Benjamin Clements later ...see more
For about 2 years around 1815 John Greenfield aged about 16, before he was married was a hired hand for a farmer In Hayes called Tom or Thomas Smith.
Later John Greenfield and his wife Sarah lived in Hayes, near West Wickham, in 1826 with their son John aged 4, after married at Croydon Surrey nearby. John died in 1828 aged about 30, so he would have been born about 1800.
A 1834 will of a ...see more
The image is from july 1948,not 1955. The ship in the photo is the SS CLAN FARQUHAR she arrived at Wards shipbreaking yard in july 1948.
50 years ago I got on a Don Everall Coach at 9pm at the Bull Stake Darlaston. We travelled through the night arriving around 8am on Bodmin moor where we changed coaches for the remainder of the journey to Telawne.
I was 12 years old, the site had been open only a few years, this was our second holiday.
These holidays sealed our love of Cornwall my brother and I have both purchased mobile homes ...see more
Does anyone remember this road?
Does anyone know of the family of Mary Walters, died late 1930s. Her children were:
John Walters, Christmas Walters, Gwenllian (Gwendoline) Walters and Charlie Walters.
Gwenllian was my grand-mother and she lived with my mother, Ivy in Dunraven Place (The Monkey),
Mary also had 2 children from her second marriage to Francis Augustus; these were Augustus and Elwa.
I'm trying to find information about the Bernard Smith family who lived at Barrymore, Bow Lane in the late 1800s/early 1900s. My grandmother Alice Mary Odgers had a studio in their house where she painted for 10 years before she married in 1915. The 2 daughters of the family were her bridesmaids
My parents both taught at Witnesham school, a Mr. Eastleigh was the headmaster at the time. My father Idris Walters was the headmaster when he retired. My mother Edna nee Crooks became headmistress of Baylham school until she retired. I would like to know when Witnesham Area school began and if it is possible to find dates when they worked there to add to my family history. (I should have asked them when they were alive). Idwa l Walters
Hi I am Eileen Cooper and I worked in the Nurse Training School during the 1970's and 1980's
I have many memories of students and pupil nurses going through training during the above times!
It would be lovely to hear from anyone who trained during these times!!!
Hi all, my names Albert Griffiths and I've lived on John St Cullercoats for the last 7 years, and I'm wondering if anyone has any old photos of the school that used to be on John St, the reason I'm asking is because I believe there is still a bit of the school wall existing, and its in my back yard, so that is why I feel the urge to try and find out a bit more about it, Cheers All
I lived in high legh from 1965 -1974 on woodlands crescent,the first school i went to was on the army camp an old nissan hut then we moved to the village hall i remember the teacher was mrs caine and then moved to the school we know now the headmaster was mr roberts who sadly passed away and mr cragg took over there was a little shop on renshard lane mrs cooke we used to play on the army camp and there was ...see more
I worked at the Golden Sands Holiday Camp, 1961. Had the most fun. One evening, one of the workers had an invite to join a party at the Constitutional Holiday Camp. We ran across the cornfield behind our girls chalets -and back later that evening. The following day, we all were called in front of Manager, Mr. Petty, and an irate farmer. We could not deny going through the waist high corn - there was the pathway, to and from our chalet block. Ah but we had fun. Bonny Cother
I was born at number 17, there was a corner shop are used to go there with my pocket money sixpence and buy my sweeties.
I want to Grafton junior school and I remember the teacher there was Mrs Knight. When I left there I went to Sherborn girls school in Holloway
Are used to go to Saint Joseph's Church in Archway we called it 'holy Joes', on Saturday as there would be dances there that was when I was not ...see more
My mothers parents lived at 3 Mill Lane Cottages, Mill Lane, Sindlesham. I would stay with them in my school holidays. My grandad, John Gibbs, worked as a cowman on the owners farm, I think he was called Mr Curl. Staying with them was sheer bliss! I can appreciate now though that their lives were hard - outside chemical toilet by the garden shed at the bottom of the back garden. Once ...see more
I was born in Gosport in 1929, my father was a long serving seaman in the Royal Navy and so our family life was all things navy - so Stokes Bay was a big part of our lives.
I had three elder sisters who were frequently given the job of taking me off down to the beach in my pram, those days of course I cannot remember but I was never allowed to forget about, it particularly the day they were ...see more