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Memories Galore!

Best of British would love to hear your memories of past decades. Do you have a tale to tell of your first day at school, your first party dress or first romance? What about the things that mother used to say; what we used to eat; and how we used to shop? Do you have special memories of the changing seasons, bonfire nights and Christmas? We welcome any recollection from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Send your articles and letters to us at Best of British, 27a Market Place, Market Deeping, Lincs PE6 8EA. If you would like a copy of our writers’ guidelines, send a small stamped addressed envelope to this address or email mail@british.fsbusiness.co.uk

A Marathon task for Editor Ian Beacham

EDITOR Ian Beacham achieved his target time of 4 hours 30 minutes, almost to the second, in the Flora London Marathon on April 13^th. He is raising money to help develop a dog trained by Canine Partners, a charity that transforms the lives of people with physical disabilities, most of whom are wheelchair users.

Already, readers have demonstrated their kindness by sending us lots of cash and cheques to sponsor Ian. Our adopted puppy has been named IVOR BOB and has now well into his weekly training classes, which will teach him how to socialise to every environment an assistance dog might work in, such as busy streets, hospitals, supermarkets and workplaces.

See the magazine to follow Ivor Bob’s progress and visit the website www.caninepartners.co.uk to find out more information about the charity.

· Cheques (payable to Canine Partners) should be sent to us here at Best of British, 27a Market Place, Market Deeping, Lincs PE6 8EA. Everyone who sends a donation or a pledge of money will be named (unless you say otherwise) and thanked in the magazine.

Have you visited our Message Board yet? Just click on the link above for the chance to share ideas and thoughts about the magazine and topics relating to life in Britain, past and present. By visiting the Message Board, you can read anything posted by the magazine’s editorial team and other visitors to the website, but to add your own or respond to other messages, you need to register. There are plenty of opportunities to stir the memory by interacting with other Message Board users about your favourite places, events and pastimes, and how we lived through different decades – family life, products, holidays, jobs, travel and transport, life in the forces, those who entertained us, what we once read… or any topic you like to reminisce about.
General correspondence, or Helping Hands requests and Postbag letters that you wish to be considered for publication in the magazine should still be sent either by email (mail@british.fsbusiness.co.uk) or by post to Best of British, 27a Market Place, Market Deeping, Lincs PE6 8EA.

SPECIAL FEATURES

In the
July issue



Legend called Mallard The ‘blue streak’ whose world speed record for steam locomotives remains unbroken.



Countryside for All Fifty golden years of the CLA Game Fair.

To Have and To Hold

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries

All You Need is Laughs

Special wedding day
stories from our readers.

Classic B-films that kept
us on the edge of our seats.

How Sir George Martin
progressed from
comedy to the Beatles.

Brave New Life

Safety on our Streets

Words that Moved the World

More readers’ memories
of the Ten Pound Passage
migration to Australia.

How Belisha beacons and
zebra crossings have made
life easier for pedestrians.

Telegrams’ long history of delivering news.

Farm Down Memory Lane

Glorious Games Outshine War Severity

An emotional return to
a 1960’s place of work.

ALSO:

The Healthy Option:
The Holiday Fellowship has long provided
an antidote to modern day stresses.

My St Paul’s:
Childhood memories of
a favourite part of London.

Messenger on Wheels:
The happy life of a 1940’s telegram boy.

A boy’s inspiring
visit to London’s 1948 Olympics.

Cornwall Celebrates Birth of Steam: Camborne’s Trevithick Day.

From All that Jazz to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Saturday nights were all right at the Palais de Danse.

Reward and Retribution: A VC hero’s reputation restored.

Germans in our Midst: Lifting the lid on Britain’s most secret prisoner of war camp.

Half a Crown for the Cruet: The ups and downs of annual holidays on a budget.

A Prize Every Time: Working at Southport’s Pleasureland in the 1950s.


	REGULAR FEATURES

Nostalgia Gallery

1940s – The Way We Were

The Old Mill by Michael Herring.

Best Foot Forward
Following the path of
Southampton’s Titanic legacy.

Gone… But Not Quite Forgotten
Recalling the products displayed in old adverts.

Building the Past
Glasgow’s Willow Tea Rooms.

Childhood recollections of war,
as well as 1940’s events in July.

Collectors’ Corner	Postcards from the Past
Gifts obtained with manufacturers’ coupons.	The funny side of life.

Card Collectables

My Favourite Place

Famous Fifties’ footballers.

ALSO:

Sounds Then Britain Now Bookshelf Letter from the Deepings Reader Offers What’s On in July Puzzle Page

Great Malvern, Worcestershire.

REGULAR FEATURES FROM OUR READERS

Post Bag
Our July Postbag includes letters on: punishment not fitting the crime; maypole dancing; collecting old vacuum cleaners; knowing the times table; motorcycle fire tenders; home remedies and a crash landing, as well as on many other topics.

Yesterday Remembered
Sixties’ fun at Butlin’s; enjoying the countryside as a child in the Forties and Fifties; a seaside trip by car goes wrong; remembering a childhood garden; a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads and family holidays in the Thirties are amongst the subjects of this month’s readers’ stories.

Helping Hands
Readers are looking for information about: the history of prams and nursery furniture; a photograph of industrial sand buckets near Rainford; Meccano magazine; the ownership history of an Austin 7 Military Tourer; plant catalogues and a pair of Sylvac large dogs; as well as family and friends searches.

Sharing an Interest
Would you like to make new friends with similar interests - perhaps to share memories or travel with to events or places of interest? Send some details about yourself and your interests, and who you would like to meet to: Sharing an Interest, Best of British, 27a Market Place, Market Deeping, Lincs PE6 8EA or email mail@british.fsbusiness.co.uk You are welcome to include a clear head and shoulders photo of yourself.

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