Name Something You Used To See/ Appreciate, But Is Now No More

I love this story about a SR71



also the A12

 

why did our Mum's do this every week ?

 

Because your alcoholic dad would batter her if she didn’t?

Metaphorically speaking.

 

Now a pizzeria and Italian eatery, but when it was a pub called the three tuns in Beckenham High Street, this was a place I spent a lot of time in in 1980-1982

 

Is this an early picture of our hero?

 

I was in the same class at school as the son of the landlord.

 

I remember that pub. I used to see someone who lived in Woodbastwick Road, near-ish by.

 

You weren't the yente next door was you ?

 

I think this is the one my late Italian grandmother worked at 30/40 years ago.

 

I remember Vertibird very well. I got one for my 9th birthday. One of my most treasured presents ever. Loved it so much I kept it in it's box each time after I used it. 45 years later and it's still in it's box in the loft and still works...just about! Never could bear to part with it. Not sure it was responsible for sowing the seed in my mind that led to my eventual profession, subconsciously perhaps.