"Graham P Davis" wrote :
Tudor Hughes wrote:

Off course I was born during the November Pea souper in 1952, and that
probably expalins a lot!

Doesn't explain why your calendar was a month slow, though.
I visited London in the middle of that great smog, 6 Dec 1952 (age just
10). It was *very* thick but don't believe all those idiots who tell
you "you couldn't see your arm in front of you - literally!" You could
see at least 10 yards and few people I know, even Arsenal supporters,
have arms that long.

I remember travelling on the Birch Bros. coach from Rushden to Bedford in
1962 (probably) and the driver being warned not to leave the coach when he
arrived in London else he'd never find it again.

Birch coaches! Now, there's a vision from the past. We were terribly
excited when one stopped at our bus-stop ... so much more comfortable
and faster than the old United Counties and Luton Corporation buses.

Philip