What a great idea now that the Observer has let their Nostalgia section die. Hi Vanessa I hope our ranks will soon swell with other folk who remember the old...
Lyla, hello and welcome to the group. Hopefully someone will be brave enough to post something. Has everyone had a look at my pictures, more to come....! ...
Well done Derek ... I wish I had known some of the people you mention. I've had a super email from St Albans musician Mac MacLeod who was an old friend of...
Hello Lindsay This was a very good idea of yours. Neither my husband nor I knew Ginger to talk to; he was just a very familiar figure about town, very much...
HI I've just logged in. I was born in St Albans 60 years ago and lived there until I was 14 years old. My father was a teacher at Spencer School and we lived...
Hello Anthea and welcome to the group - you have a couple of years on me! Where are you living now? My father was originally (1952-61) in charge of the ...
Hi All well the group seems to have got off to quite a good start....! Please don't forget if you know someone who lives in Snorbans or who once did and ...
Hi Pauline I am delighted to welcome you to the group!. For those who don't know, Pauline lives near Pershore and knew Ginge well during the last 8 years of...
Hi All, Jeff Cloves was a St Albans journalist ("The Snorbens Diarist") and knew Ginger rather better during his early occupation of St Albans than maybe the...
And this is what I had from Mac MacLeod, one half of the duo "Soft Cloud"....I regret I did not know Mac during my years in Snorbans. Lindsay Hiya Lindsay As...
Well we made a start on the pubs, now how about the cafes? I made a list this morning of those that I can remember, and only four that I know of still ...
... a list ... know of still ... while we ... for coffee! ... there now ... it was on ... Bar now ... by Mr ... he sold up in ... as you were ... Hotel....
Hi Derek, L & P I definitely don't remember, or the Victoria, but I do remember Betty's shop. Where was Waddington yard? Yes I remember the Golden Egg/Wimpy...
Hi Lindsay I'm living in Gloucestershire now. We've been here for the last 25 years. My father was the art teacher at Beaumont school but he would have left by...
Hi Anthea, you're just up the road from me then....I'm just 7 miles on the Welsh side of Chepstow. Try me on your Dad's name! Before my father joined ...
talking with Nessa privately earlier tonight she said that she was an old Townsend Girl, as I was! She described a picture taken at the 1983 reunion of her...
Hi just joined, thanks for the invite on the Herts Genealogy Mailing List. Just a quick post for now, have to get the senior cells working as I left town in...
Hi from South Wales and welcome to the group! You didn't tell us your name but I guess it's Valerie....? Mention of Handley Page reminded me of the noise...
I have an old friend from St Albans, Dena Bryant, who now lives about half an hour's drive from me on the A48 towards Gloucester. In St Albans she lived in a...
Hi David, yes Owl Cottage it was. Dena's ex-husband Bob married my mother in 1982, but he died some years ago now. As I have said elsewhere I think Ginger...
Yes I understand that CAMRA's beginnings were at the Farriers. I've also heard it said that CAMRA started in Cambridge.....and elsewhere....so like Ginger...
thankfully I don't know, and don't want to know, who Jade Goody is......! Haven't been to the Cross Keys for about 20 years....! It used to be an old ...
Yes I don't know why his piece came out like that, it wasn't like it in the email he sent to me. Hope it doesn't spoil your reading enjoyment Lindsay In a...
Yes I know Graham. I first met him at a "Pipe and Tabor" event in Gloucester Museum about 10 years ago. He told us that he came from St Albans and was ...
It doesn't look very much like it as the photo I tried to send in an email didn't show up, it's in my photo album now on the site's home page. Lindsay In a...
Hi, I remember when Ginger made it up onto the stage to sing with Jerry Le Lewis and was given a dark shiny suit which he wore around the town for ages. He...
Hi John that's a wonderful memory isn't it? Welcome to the group. I see we have also been joined by Edward Brush, Hi Edward you won't remember me as I was...
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