Very good! IT's great to see people sharing mysteries already.

My New Year's Eve this year was spent at the house of a friend who is Benny in Abbamania so of course we were serenaded with Happy New Year and various other Abba songs.

Hopefully it will arrive before I leave work today so I can sneakily print a copy. I hate reading on my tablet.

Wow! Things have come on a long way since I did my computer graphics course in 1988!

So, in the 1980s my neighborhood had the Barnados Home for Boys next door to the psychiatric hospital. What could possibly go wrong?

I'd forgotten about Domesday reloaded! We did a D block back in 80s. Unfortunately it seems no-one did the block around my neighbourhood.
That old maps site is great though,

Anyone know where you can get good maps of local areas for 1980s UK locations? I have googled, searched eBay, looked at the OS and Stanford maps sites etc., but they only have more historical maps or modern day ones. Will it require a trip to the local records office? I've also looked for pictures, ...

I grew up in the 70's in rural England, and then in about 78 (aged 10) I moved to the very edge of a small city. In the countryside our neighbours on both sides had children about the same age as my brother and I. During the summer we would spend the days out on our bikes (Raleigh Chopper, Chipper o...