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	Eben Ballantyne
	A Good Excuse To Give ‘furriners’ A Good Thumping
	Maurice Bassett
	War Work Ends With Fractured Skull
	Cycling 50 Miles To Tewksbury, Fishing, Then Cycling Back
	Demob At Last!
	Raul Beanes
	The Yank And His English Mother-in-law
	Don Bell
	Aire Valley Cycle Club
	Phil Bell
	A Bottle Down The Chimney
	Winifred Berry
	Mannequins And The Famous Restaurant
	The Prince’s Bus
	Bill Blann
	Charabanc Trips
	K Boxall
	Shopping In The Old Days
	Margaret Bradshaw
	A Charmed Childhood
	Noreen Bruder
	Readers' Recollections Of Those Bygone Days
	Lionel Burns
	The Long Journey Home
	Mark Clayson
	The Innocence Of Youth
	Vic Cliffe
	The Sound Of Miners’ Clogs On Icy-cold Cobbles
	Sunday Walks Past Steam Trains And Trams
	Alberta Conger
	Tea Dancing At 16 Years Old
	Ted Cottingham
	Starting Work For Mr Bob The Baker In The Early Years
	Bryan Davies
	Pull The Cord And Stop The Train
	Wynne Davies
	A Zeppelin Engulfed In Flames
	Marie Dear
	County's First Speed Cop
	Keith Downer
	Return To Longparish
	Peter Dudley
	"There's A Dog In The Minefield!"
	Dave Edwards
	The Fire Spread From Bunk To Bunk
	Patricia Farley
	Off To Bonnie Scotland
	Travelling To Helensborough
	Eve Farrant
	Ice Stadium - ‘a Den Of Evil’
	'Where Is The Hearse?'
	Jimmy Feest
	The Good Old Days Of A Family Greengrocery
	Alice Freeland
	I Was A Land Girl
	Denis Gardner
	The Blitz – Both Frightening And Exciting
	Bill Gilbert
	Growing Up On The Mount
	Elizabeth Goatcher
	A Penny-farthing Ride To London
	Bernard Goodwin
	A House With Love In It
	Roy Green
	Angmering Scouts Perform At The Albert Hall
	The 2 Cylinder Jowett Van That Spluttered Up The Hill
	Archie Greenshields
	A Car For £100, Including Tax And Insurance
	A Policeman’s Lot
	My Brakes Don't Work
	'Watch Out For The Rats In The Tunnel!'
	The 'Magic' Conkers
	Barbara Greenshields
	Days At Felpham Church Of England School
	Ron Greenwood
	Tales Of The Mill And The Fire Brigade
	Tales Of A Tar Fire And Seven Years' Hard Labour
	Janet Gyford
	The Day Begins
	Delivery
	Other Ways Of Shopping
	Ada Haddock
	The Rag-&-bone Man
	Tony Hammond
	The Wheelwright And The Blacksmith
	The Austin Seven Special
	Stan Hannaford
	All For 12s 6d A Week
	Phil Hayden
	Some Childhood Memories Of Hove
	Jack Hill
	A Lifetime Of Cars
	Bevin’s Boys At Bagworth
	Altogether In One Bed
	Harvesting Time Before The War
	The Trojan And The Home-made Pies
	Making Ends Meet
	A Haven Of Woodworking Smells
	The Village Roadman
	Haymaking On The Farm
	Nora Hillman
	The Steyning Nora Knew 80 Years Ago
	Derek Hindle
	When Horses And Carts Replaced Motor Vehicles
	Ted Howell
	Family's Memories Of Pubs, Cinemas And Soldiers
	John Hunt
	Parties To Celebrate Coronation Day
	Allan Huntingdon
	He Had To Shovel 30 Tons Of Coal Every Day
	Midnight Passion Wagon
	The Miners’ Bus And The Snowdrift 1954
	Territorial Army Antics
	Romance On The Buses, 1950
	Winifred Johnson
	My Father Was A Stranger
	Norman Elder Johnstone
	Old Sacks Help Buses Get Grip
	Eddy Joyce
	We Built A Camp In The Bluebell Wood
	Carol Kearney
	The Enemy Attacked Our Train
	Bert Kent
	Bert’s Biking 1 --- Getting Started
	Bert’s Biking 2 --- First Bike
	Bert’s Biking 3 --- The Longest Ride
	Bert’s Biking 4 --- Coronation Capers
	Bert’s Biking 5 --- Push-bike And Sidecar
	Marion Kirk
	Green Wrythe Lane Infants’ School
	Ernest George Larbey
	The Holiday Accommodation Was A Double-decker Bus
	Bets Lattimore
	Hard Times
	Malcolm Leggett
	Collecting Car Numbers
	Ron Levett
	Rude Words Down The Phoneline
	He Didn’t Want To Be Liberated!
	Exploding Switchboard
	Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
	Hundreds Of Tanks
	Just Like Mother Used To Make
	Working In A Zoo
	We Reversed Into A Rolls Royce
	Preparing For Atomic War
	Army Emergency Reserve
	Catch 22
	Bonfire Night
	An Invaluable Service To The Community
	Signing Up
	Profit And Loss
	An Old Fashioned Grocers
	Peter Longhurst
	Growing Up On A Farm In The 1920’s
	Early Queues To Buy Stale Bread
	Mary Margerison
	The Night Soil Men Emptied The ‘tin Can’ Toilets Weekly
	Bob Margetson
	The Policeman Took Pity
	John Marshall
	Childhood Innocence Shattered
	Jane McArthur
	Travelling In The Car Boot In The Early 1960’s
	Don McDouall
	Run Down In The Fog
	Retracing Childhood Steps
	Dreaming Of Australia
	Back To Gran's
	Arriving As An Evacuee
	You Will Never Go To Heaven
	Fun With The Village Kids
	Learning To Ride A Bike
	Build Up To D Day
	Gladys McInley
	On The Open Road With A Five Bob Licence
	Ernie Meredith
	Well-known Cycleologist Of Yesteryear
	Cycle Polo Club And Santa’s Letters For Children
	Gordon Mills
	It Was Love At First Sight
	Brian Minchin
	To Glasgow To Avoid Bombs
	Rose Moss
	My Mother’s Early Memories
	Ada Newman
	German Measles A 'Blessing In Disguise'
	Tom Newman
	Tales Of Delivery Men In London And Hop Picking In Kent
	Little Mosaic Tiles Made Ideal Gobstones (or Fivestones)
	Jennifer Nicol
	The Overhead Wires Accounting System
	Alfred 'Curly' Norris
	Kath O'Sullivan
	Ann Osmond
	Life Of Poverty In Prosperous Britain
	Sydney Partridge
	Frogs And Toads As Pets
	Atrocious Conditions On The Pennine Hills
	His Majesty’s Civil Service
	Peter Patton
	A Cycle Trip To Derbyshire
	The Gang, From Pushbikes To Motorbikes
	The Driverless Milk Cart
	Nearly The End For Pete
	The Telegram Boy In Reverse
	Deep Snow And Sliding Buses
	Arthur Pelling
	Buoyant Memoirs Of A Lifeboat And A Shop Selling Lifebuoy
	A Pickard
	The Lamplighter And The Coalman
	Kitty Prickett
	The Faithful Parlour Maid
	John Reece
	Riding In One Of B.r.'s 3-wheeler Scammel's
	Ken Ripper
	Up At 2 A.m. Every Day
	Alf Rogers
	Commuter Memories From Down Under
	Sybil Rouse
	Childhood Memories Of Three Bridges
	The Gypsy Fairs
	Crabbet Park Of Long Ago
	Olive May Sharman
	The Last Dancing Bears
	The Day The Circus Came
	Keith Shorland
	She Wanted To Spend A Penny So I Gave Her One
	John Shrubb
	The Cash "monorail" On The Shop Ceiling
	Roger Simmonds
	Your First Ever Car
	Martin Skeffington
	Peas Infested By The Weevil
	The Lovely Smell Of Smoke
	Jean Smith
	Trams To The Elephant & Castle
	Mary Smith
	Bsa Motorcycle And Sidecar
	Pat Smyth
	A Tragic Day
	Return To Lifford
	Honeymoon On Vj Day
	One Journey – Three Punctures
	Cruelty To Horses
	Revolutionary Changes To The Bicycle In Days When Horses Were Still In Use
	George Spenceley
	Rough Crossing
	Tanker Troubles
	Tb Scare
	New Employment
	Childhood Pastimes
	Let Me Show You How Its Done!
	Motorbike Crash
	A Warning
	My First Motor Bike
	On The Buses
	Fun On The Water
	National Service
	The White Lady Of Northwich
	Moving On
	Driving A Tanker
	Follow The Leader
	Its Raining Oil!
	Speeding Tanker
	Peter Standley
	Idyllic Setting For Family Holidays
	John Stewart
	Any Gum Chum?
	Office Boy
	After School Activities
	Never A Dull Moment
	Births And Deaths
	Milk Boy
	War Time Measures
	Picnics
	Betty Swart
	Crossing The Mersey
	Rachel Sykes
	I’d Sneak Off And Swipe The Empties
	Harold Taylor
	Sunday Saunters
	Harry, Kit And Peggy
	Incident In The Ice
	Bus Tragedy
	The Ainsworths Of 2 St. Richards Walk
	Glorious Goodwood
	Sally Tilling
	Business Starts With A Grey Mare Called Kitty
	Thomas Tilling – 'A Prince Of Organisers'
	Brian Wakefield
	The Corrugated Iron Shed
	John White
	Driving A Truck At 9 Years Old
	Drawing Water With A Shirehorse
	Elsie Williams
	Old Father Thames Between The Wars
	H Wills
	Old Boys' Day
	Trips In A Horse-drawn Brake