The railway "lengths men" were a gang of about six men who maintained the railway tracks and fences on their length between half way to Stafford and half way to Norton Bridge based at Great Bridgeford. Father got to know them well as they were...
I remember during the war, and after for a while, Everyone had ration books, cues could stretched a mile, In the village it was not too bad, as contraband it moved, Under the policeman's nose, the law they disapproved. Fire was always a major hazard...
This was the first I'd seen dead body, and shook me dam well ridged, Out with his tape and pencil, see how big to make the coffins image These men Jim and Bill were the same age and era as my parents, they both retired in 1985 when there was no more...