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Memory Lane

Performing the 'Eriskay Love Lilt'

Choir practice brings back memories from isolated war time England, when a song was first sung
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Oh, how times have changed

It was gas marks rather than mobile phones for the school children of 1939
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Perfect spot for climbing

Forget sheer cliffs and exposed peaks, it's the bombed out buildings of Notting Hill that were ripe climbing territory for 1940s wartime youngster, Basil Jacques
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Mr Chivers' shop

The grave news that Britain is at war with Germany is announced to unruly youngsters in a Somerset sweet shop
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A lesson learned at Bondi Beach

A chance conversation with a lifeguard proved valuable sooner than reader, Sam Almond, ever guessed
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An unwelcomed thwack on the nose

'Mother told me to fight back and I did'; a 'literal child' is sent to bed with no supper
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Trainspotting at Bletchley

Oldie reader, Peter Walton, takes a trip down Memory Lane
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The inner-workings of a 1964 newsroom

Vivian Nind remembers sub-editors busy with black marker pens and elderly men perched over proofs, far superior to the modern spell-check
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A colonial boy steps into a London pea-souper

Memory lane by Oldie reader, Mark Milbank
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Memory Lane by Robin Illington
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