Matt Monro Forum

Hi Michele--just wanted to say thank you for the Competition Prize which arrived yesterday--dvd and cd of Alma Cogan--what a big surprise !!

I really enjoyed doing the "Cryptic Carol" quiz--that is my sort of quiz !!

Thanks again--I will really enjoy them both.

We also want to thank you for the prize received yesterday Michele.
Will be giving us a great deal of pleasure. Alma was a great star and performer.

Hi Lena and Harry--coincidence or what ???

Yes, brilliant co-incidence Marian. Tell you what... I can see us taking over from the Eggheads.

Congratulations on your wins to all three of you. How about a MM team taking on the Eggheads? You'd have to include Paul and Robert though and Mike and John etc. etc.

Marian

Unfortunately we could only have 5 on a team--but I would love to have a go against "The Eggheads"--but not on TV!!!

I love doing quizzes--I do about 6 a year-I would do more if I could !!

We also have quiz nights at the Hey-Day Association " Friendship meetings all over the country (now been taken over from previous ARP").
We have two great quiz cds that we purchased and can recommend from "Yours Magazine." 20 sets of quzzes on each. Excellent!! Testing your knowledge of the past.

If you get "Yours" Magazine Lena and Harry, there's a photo by Peter in their Winter Special recently - the two frozen milk bottles.

Marian.

Yes we have seen the Two frozen milk bottles Marian with the 1963 date on. We don't seem to get the wintry snow like in those pictures any more, when as kids we would be out in the street making icy slides in the road and be out there until it got dark, and then go indoors and sit on the fender boxes and huddle over the coal fire. Ahh memories. I really like this magazine, and now once a fortnight we hope that it can maintain the usual and interesting content.
Roy Hudd's articles on Billy Dainty reminds us of in 1984 when he was the warm up act for Al Martino in Wolverhampton. We have some photos that we took. He was a very funny act.

Yes, Lena and Harry we certainly don't seem to get those winters now.
I grew up in Wales where the long rows of terraced houses were quite like London. I remember all the snow used to be swept off the pavements into great piles all down the sides of the streets. They seemed to stay there for months! Also remember playing outside until it was dark and no one worried, and the boys playing marbles in the gutters, skipping, whip and top, hopscotch grids drawn in chalk on the pavements.
Milk delivered by hand cart and taking a jug out to collect it, then keeping it in a bowl of cold water in the larder so it didn't go off, with a lace cover with beads around the edge to keep the flies off! Vegetables and coal delivered by horse and cart (not together!). Great times, hard times, but wonderful too..

Marian

Marian, my mother would knit balaclavas for the boys and hoods for us girls with scarves that went on forever wrapped round our necks and entire bodies for those cold days of never ending snow. We remember all those things that you've mentioned and there was the street singers, the carousel rides for kids in exchange for a jam jar. the man with the barrow selling shrimps, cockles and whelks. it goes on forever.
This is what makes the "Yours" magazine so enjoyable. We can relate to everything in it.

You will all have noticed how that word "none" has crept into all of our postings. So it's guess the word from now on

I'll have to think about that one Lena and Harry... we could have a "none" quiz! Was it cockles? We used to have a cockle man too.
Peter's just asked if you remember the old lady who sold cooked beetroot down Chapel Market out of an old pram?
We had a rag and bone man too who swopped clothes for goldfish.
Yes, "Yours" seems a good informative magazine. I'd only read it in doctor's waiting rooms before, but we got a free copy this time for the photo, plus payment!
We've always liked Roy Hudd's kind of humour too. He's very much a comedian of the old variety days too isn't he?

Marian

Looks like Michele's put the restriction on certain words back again. My guess was c o c k l e s.....

Marian

That's correct Marian, we could have a quiz and it looks like you are in the lead at the moment.
I don't remember the beetroot seller in the Chapel Market but i do remember a bakers nearby who sold the most delicious doughnuts. like lots of foods today they are just not the same. The rag and bone men were always around and the coalman would empty the coal in the cellar under the stairs and while he was doing that people would jump up on his lorry and pinch any that had rolled out of the sacks, and the same applied to the men who bought ice to the shops on a lorry.
We were poor, but we were APPY !!!
Who said that. ?????
Roy Hudd is a great character and is part of the Hiss and Boo company that entertain.