Hi everyone Back after a while..and was great to see the location snaps. I am more familiar with the 90s series and really like the snaps posted by Tim. Thanks. The Corfe Common thread I have seen earlier but missing now. Is it on a different topic? I had planned a trip to Dorset and Devon before th...

That is really interesting William. I didnot know there was a river called the Corfe. I was based in Swanage and took the steam train to Corfe. It did stop then, so maybe you took a different train. It went on to Norden I think. I visited the castle but couldn't explore more as there was a thunderst...

Thanks so much Timv for these pictures. I travelled to this area a few years ago, and was planning to do so again this year..but the pandemic has put paid to the plans. It is fascinating to read about the Secret Trail inspiration likely to be Corfe Common. I watched the 90s series recently and was w...

Thanks number 6! The list at the beginning doesn't indicate Secret Trail so I will await enlightenment in this area@
By the way your snaps of the Exbury and other locations for the 70s series are lovely. Thanks for them.

While re watching the 90s Five series I was wondering where Five on a Secret Trail was filmed? Any ideas?

Yes agree totally..Trini had a happy cheerful voice which gave a feel good vibe to anyone who heard and watched him..that's what I saw in the clip too. He lives on in his music, but it is so sad to think that Pat Boone and Tony Bennet are the only ones remaining with us of broadly the same genre now..

These are really nice clips ☺️ thanks. Amused to see the oldies doing the " twist" better than the lost young ones! These must be pre Covid? I am not a great fan of 60s and after music anymore but make exceptions for some like Trini. He had a great voice and could do up -tempo as well as s...

Saddened to hear of the demise of Trini Lopez. He was very much a fixture of my childhood of the seventies. Constantly played on the radio were Lemon Tree, This Land is your land, Shame and Scandal in the family. The latter was a gently risque song which had many adults in splits. I still have an ol...

A lovely article! I still use the Burma teak furniture my grandparents bought in what was then British India in the 1930s! We also still live in the home they built, and my office- a former colonial mansion has antique items of the British Indian Railways of the 19th century! I hope this wonderful m...

I have to say I learned the names of flowers like celandines, dandelions, buttercups which never grew in India..and food like brawn and tongue which we didn't eat either! Thanks to EB my vocabulary was exposed to these novelties.

I did not know that Imogen has passed away.When was this?

Idyllic pictures of the caves..I don't know when I can ever visit Dorset again..so looking at these is so nice..Thanks number6.
I wonder if these were also the inspiration for the cave in Five Run Away Together.

A really sad loss..She was such an outstanding singer and a beacon of hope in dark days..also a kind and dutiful person who did so much for the ordinary people..RIP Dame Vera..they simply do not make persons like you anymore...

Some of the audiobooks I have been hearing seem to have changed the saucepan man's songs in The Faraway Tree series. Is there any recent audio version of the older editions of this series?

Irritating for the latter. Splendid by delightful etc. Using the same jargon as our PC brigade I should feel slighted as these changes are specific to Egmont's for sale only in India edition, presuming perhaps we are no longer conversant with the ways of Enid's Britain!!