Hello everyone, it is nice to have your company again as we amble together down memory lane to visit all our yesteryears. It is great when I hear from readers of all ages saying they enjoy these memories, so, as the old saying goes, nostalgia never dates.

Recently we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the England football squad winning the World Cup in 1966. It was sad to realise that we have of course lost some of the players and four of the survivors now suffer from dementia, but we forget the toll time takes on human beings. I have a lovely photo of the team visiting the ATV Studio in Borehamwood just after their win for a reception. How many towns can say they were visited by that famous bunch of lads?

We also recently lost the great Muhammad Ali. Not a lot of people know this, but he also visited Borehamwood in the 1960s to meet the cast of The Dirty Dozen shooting on the backlot of MGM.

Alas, we must also say goodbye to some more television names of yesteryear. Vivean Gray played the popular character of Mrs Mangel in the soap opera Neighbours at its height in the 1980s, appearing in more than 250 episodes. Ken Barrie became well known to a generation of children doing the voice for the television show Postman Pat and sang the theme tune.

Finally, we have the lost the first chief female presenter on BBC television, Sylvia Peters, whose perfect diction covered the pioneering age of the small box from 1947 to 1957, including the coverage of Queen Elizabeth's coronation ceremony in 1953. It's a long time ago, but were you one of those early viewers who crowded around the few available television sets to watch the proceedings?

Elstree Studios was not slow to embrace the challenge of television and in fact next year marks the 60th anniversary of the first television series to be filmed at the facility.

The old National Studios across the road were also embracing the changes and were home to such series as The Invisible Man, William Tell and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Then the old Danziger Studios, actually located in Elstree by the reservoir, started churning out cheap but cheerful series including Mark Saber, who was a one armed detective actually played by an actor who had lost his arm in real life.

The MGM Studio joined the bandwagon a bit later in the 1960s, but was host to now cult television series such as Danger Man, The Prisoner and UFO, which still attract visitors to Borehamwood. In fact MGM British Studios has a very active fan Facebook page and members will be visiting again this September for a walkabout of the old Studio site. Care to join us?

I love encouraging film and television fans to our town and the interest is increasing every year. Sadly, we do not have a visitors centre to embrace that interest. We are not alone in missing an opportunity. Hollywood itself is awash with money, compared to here, but they have failed to build a proper museum to celebrate their own past. Veteran star Debbie Reynolds once showed me her astounding collection of film costumes dating back to the 1930s that she had bought at the famous MGM sale in the early 1970s. Debbie wanted this to go into a museum but has given up waiting and I believe has sold the collection. Here you could donate material to the British Film Institute but I suspect most stuff now goes to auction or eBay and into private collectors' hands. It all seems a great pity, especially as I would like to spend my twilight years sitting in an Elstree and Borehamwood Film and Television Visitors Centre regaling visitors with tales of yore. On the other hand, why should people suffer!

Until next week, take care and as my old mate Shaw Taylor used to say on Police Five "keep them peeled", and if you don't know what I am talking about I don't blame you.