One of the advantages of "getting-on-a-bit", is that I have a wealth of vivid memories going back into the 1930's when I was very small, and started school.
Times when most of the folks around me were not even born..(or thought about!).
I can remember details in my distant past in great detail, much better than more recent times!
I can spend ages recalling what the landscape around me used to look like many years ago....
War-time England I remember vividly, with German bombs dropping all around us whilst sitting in our Anderson Air-raid Shelter, and collecting shell and bomb shrapnel fragments from the roads after a blitz!
...when the City of London still belonged to
Londeners!, and my home town of Hereford, (after evacuating there from London at the start of the Blitz), looked like it was still in ancient, Victorian times, and slowly falling apart.
The Herefordshire countryside all around me was just vast stretches of open fields and woods, with farmyards and tractors, flocks of sheep, herds of cows, and the smell of pigs everywhere, lots of Turnips, and very few people around!
I can remember my experiences all through the war, like it was yesterday!
Traffic on the roads was minimal all through the war, and all the roads were very "thin", and my motorbikes, later-on, in the 1950's, were the fastest vehicles on the local roads!
A motorcycle ride from Hereford to London and back, on the old "A40" route, in 1950, was a magical experience, with lots of tyre punctures from boot nails, etc, on the roads!
I often wish that my "flock" could see what I see, when I recall my distant memories to them!
England was a much slower, quieter, less complicated place, in those very far-off days.
Fortunately, I/we have a wealth of photographs going back into our distant past, to remind ourselves what things used to be, and look like, in the Olden Days!
Paul...I love closing my eyes and reminiscing about my past!......
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