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Many people still confuse “back to back’s “with all terraced housing. A terrace of “back to back's “meant that an individual dwelling only had a frontage of its own. The rear was shared with its back street neighbour’s back wall and the end walls, either side ,were also shared. They lacked adequate ventilation had poor sanitation ……which encouraged the transmission of infectious diseases, and bugs in general. Gone and not missed…although one wonders with the current housing crisis if some bright spark might push for their reIntroduction?

Without doubt it's Victoria Station looking out towards the station approach. My Dad was a porter-cum-lamp man there in the 1950's and 60's and I spent may hours of my childhood accompanying him to work where he regularly pushed me along the platforms on the back of a luggage trolley. He also allowed me to secure the lamps on the front and back of trains whilst they were parked at a platform, but I don't think @Elf n Safety' would be too happy with that. He also took on the station announcer's role advising travellers of incoming trains and the destination of outgoing trains. Once he'd done the announcing, and unknowingly to me, he used the microphone to contact Father Christmas's fairies to order a supply of goodies for me such as spangles, lucky bags, Fry's Five Boys chocolate bars and sherbet dips, but my wife thought I was stupid. (Only joking. I was only 6 or 7 at the time). Happy days! Eric Boocock

My Grandfather used to say “we were in the newspaper as kids, we were the first on the street with shoes” We found the article so I thought I’d share for a bit of fun, he wasn’t far off with his tales bless him.

Have been doing my partners family tree for her and came across a few pub related stories before betting shops became legal in the 50’s