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This is a personal memoir about growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and later. It is not always about Yorkshire, nor is it entirely memoir, but most of it is. Names and other details have been changed to avoid difficulties. I started in 2014 with the notion of accumulating some kind of printable book, possibly private rather than published.

This page lists and links all posts roughly in chronological order (rather than by posting date). Some posts recall people and experiences, others try to take a humorous view, and some are of the “look how the world has changed” kind. Essentially, I am interested in how Britain and the world have changed during the decades I have lived through, and the effects of what happened then upon the present day. 

List of posts to 12th February 2023

Past and Future

Hello
Living Memory
Bath Hospital 1839
What Is Wrong In This Room?
What Is Wrong With This Steamer?
What Is Wrong In These Pictures?
Uncle Jimmy
Mrs Quackworth
Pals
The Airship in the Shed
George Gibbard Jackson
The Man With The Hebrew Bible
Carolus II Dei Gratia Mag Br Fra et Hib Rex
Grandad Dunham’s Flight Simulator
Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible
Tips, Ships and Executorships
Haunted Houses
Drunk
Penistone
The Restless Friend
Teenage Mums
Lost Entitlements
Family Photographs

Childhood

Gram Motherem
Dad’s Thursday Helper and A Practical Wife
Doreen
Pounds, Shillings and Pence
Washing Machines Old and New
Ivy
Little Ships
My Picture Book of Ships
Donkey Stone
Crossbar Excursions
In praise of bicycles
I am a Mole
Sisters
Rags and Bones
Cartophilic Concerns
The Old Apple Tree
M Dunham Are Crap
Trump
Haley Paley Snow on the Ground
We Know Where You’re From
Colours I See With
Aunty Bina's Farm
Talk like a pirate and Too Much Television
Hornby ‘O’ Gauge and revisited
Premium Bonds
Philately will get you nowhere
Be Prepared
Plums
How Well Do You Know Morse Code?
Back In Time For The Weekend 1
Dad’s 1950s Films
Tour de Yorkshire
Bridlington
Filey
Great Yarmouth 1960
Whitby, Staithes and Scarborough
The day we saw the Queen Mary sail
Brylcreem
The Song Book
Cinema Paradiso

Teenage Years

Airfix Modelling
The Yellow Shed
Christmas Tree
Developing, Printing and a trip to London
Doing the Pools
Reel-to-Reel Recordings
Guitar Books
Rather a studious kind of boy
Lookin’ for a ‘feet’
A Body Like Mine
Selective Education
Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee
School:
            Home Chemistry and Explosives Precursors
            School Chemistry
            Biology Made Simple
            School Metalwork
            School Woodwork
            School English (Mrs Hird of Cowes)
            A Silly Christmas Love Story
            Tackling Rugby
            Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual
1960s Belgium:
            In England They Eat Cat Food
            More Memories of 1960s Belgium
            Votre Billet, Monsieur?
            Belgian Youth Abroad
            Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy
Ready Steady Go
Different Lives
Sooty
Bright in the Background
1966
The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery
Mists: a tale for Halloween
Teenage ‘X’ Certificate
Young Thugs
Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968
Hornsea Pottery
Playing With Dictionaries
Beer Mats

Late Teens and Early Twenties

Accountancy:
            Articled Clerk
            Clients and Further Thoughts Amout Clients 
            Caer Rhun Hall
            Ties Teens and Sells
            Agents of Maths Destruction
            Vulgar Money Bags
            Partners and Seniors
            The Old House
            One Man's Week 1974
            The Compton Road Library
            The Vauxhall Griffin
The Shared House:
            Brendan and the Shared House
            Jokers Wild
            Not The Best Policy
            Posters on the Wall
            Back In Time For Tea
            Strange Brew (Back in Time 3)
            Drought
How not to forget PINs
Where were you?
Mickey's Son and Daughter
Easter 1971
The Goole to Leeds Train
A family tragedy
Playlist: Fixing a Hole
Heathkit AD-27
The Ghost of Airmyn Crossings
The Real Marigold Hotel
Twelve Balls
250 Words a Minute
The Play That Goes Wrong
Old and New Cars
The Phone Phreak
Ram
Petrol Rationing
Short Shorts
Lost Colour
Brian Cant and Play Away
The Exorcist
Back In Time For The Weekend 2
Influences:
            The Ascent of Man
            Ray Gosling's Goole
            Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class
            Lytton Strachey
            The Mighty Micro
Walking:
            North Yorks Walks
            Kinder Scout
            Road to the Isles
            Walking In Iceland (series of linked posts)
            Loch Muick

Later

College and University
            Weekend in College
            ‘A’ Level English 1977
            ‘A’ Level Geography 1977
            Night Cleaner
            Bonking
            Philip Larkin’s Foot
            Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
            Research Before The Internet
            Acornsoft
            Rewriting Rewritten Writing
            VAX and VAXen
            Castleford
            The Wrong Door
            Hi there Duggy!
            Significant Plagiarism Detected
            The Commercialisation of Universities
            UMIST
            Mick Copier
Help, my courgette looks like a duck!
Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend
A Very British Revolution
Recording Artiste
Writers At Heart
Jumped Down Catholics
Top of the Pops 1983
Luxury Travel
Talbot Samba
Every Car We’ve Owned
A Tale of Two Tea Pots
Doubters, Doomsters, Gloomsters
From Ferrybridge to Finland
Norn Iron
The Inter-Varsity Club
Signalling
Sungold
Not Seeing Pink

Recent

Köhler’s Apes
Stair Rail
Lonely Brown Hair
Checked Out
Strange Conversation
Siemens A55
Doorstep Deliveries
Downtown
Dill in Mustard Sauce
People who can't say 'ul
The Morecambe and Wise IRA Sketch
My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
Blessed By Snowdrops
A Birthday Surprise
Does Anyone Want Some Drinks?
Get Tret Better
Limerick Leanings
The Peter Rabbit Plate
Kitchens Old and New
Occupational Therapy Corners
On Visiting A Daughter At University
Fish Finger Sandwiches
The Signalman’s Dilemma
Musical Instruments
Easter Hedgehogs 2020
Night Cats
Hedgehog Update 1 and Update 2
Snail Bogeys
Catch Me If You Can
Brain Fog
Health Gadget
Another Health Gadget
Bike Gadget
Trains and Boats
Traffic Cam
Moon
Fort William
The Planets
Come Lasses and Lads to Bangor
Don’t They Know It’s Christmas Time?
Bird Water
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Green Dog
Plagiarised
Council Tax
Brugada Syndrome
Sebhorreic Keratosis
I’m Not A Foxglove
phoebe’s wee blog
A Walk to the Post Office
North Wales
Bouncing Balls
Contrails
Dominosteine
Laid Up   
Memoir and Blogging   
Nice Little Earner 
Leek &nbsp
Cancer Treatment &nbsp

Throw or Keep? (old items no longer used)

 

            Mum’s Little Bear
            Old Tools
            Old Wires
            A Fiddle Too Far (The Carriage Clock)
            The Mirror
            Slide Copier
            Petrol Cans
            Parking Machine Tickets
            Lenses and Tubes
            Panora
            Oil Lamp
            Tuning Gadget
            My Very First Mother Goose
            Cameras
            Strings
            The Songwriter

Of Topic and Technical 

Adsense, Blogger and YouTube
Adsense Revisited
Side by Side Images in Blogger
Alt-0247 and Rule
The Riddle of the £30 Restaurant Bill
Supermarket Loyalty Badge Scheme
Trump and Tusk
This Hi-de-Hi Government
Some Memorable Posts
Blocked!
Scammed
Coronavirus Pacman
Faded Page
Dear Google User...
Colourisation
Facial Animation
Equal Rights for Toes!
The Yorkshire Story of the Creation
Factorials