Well, we have all clung onto the wreckage for another week so welcome back to our walk down Memory Lane. I must start by thanking Harry Gamp, who apparently reads my column in the Harrow Times for his very kind and flattering words, sent to young Vikki, the group editor for north London.

It is always great to hear from readers who now seem to stretch over such a wide area,, not to mention the world wide web. After 40 years of writing this column the greatest joy I get is when people tell me they enjoy nostalgia as I do. We cannot live in the past but we can enjoy it. This week I indulged myself by going back over half a century and chalked out hopscotch on my path. Alas, my legs were not up to it but it was worth a go. I was going to try kiss chase but was afraid of being arrested.

Last week I mentioned tales of Sir Cliff Richard and a young Robbie Williams. I think I will start with my one and only encounter with Robbie back in the 1990s at the BBC Elstree Centre on the set of Top Of The Pops. Our local mayor asked if I could arrange for his daughter to meet Take That, who were the boy band of that era. I spoke to the producer and he agreed, suggesting we visited during the afternoon dress rehearsal. We turned up and for a time the Mayor and his daughter went somewhere, perhaps in pursuit of her favourite - Jason Lemon, or was it Orange ? Anyway I was standing alone when this young lad, who I assumed was a BBC employee, stood next to me while Wet Wet Wet were singing their hit, a number one that stayed at the top of the charts for several weeks.

He asked if I knew Take That and I said yes, but could not recognise individual members as they were not my musical scene. He then began to run down Robbie before leaving, which I thought was odd for a BBC employee. A few minutes later Take That were called to the stage to rehearse and as he passed me and winked I realised it was Robbie who had been sending me up!

After the rehearsal I drove out of BBC Elstree Centre in my old Mini and had to pass 300 screaming kids. I wound down my window expecting to hear gasps of "this is a star" but all I heard was one girl remark "is that Mr Bean?" What a positive shower!

As for Cliff, you could say his career started in Borehamwood. Back in 1958 he came to MGM here for a supporting role in a film drama called Serious Charge in which he sang Living Doll. In 2008 I organised a plaque unveiling in his honour at Elstree Studios to celebrate the films he shot at the studios, including the classic early 1960s hits such as The Young Ones and Summer Holiday. It was a joint effort between Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council and Elstree Studios, but believe me the budget was peanuts. I contacted Cliff and he agreed to attend and then I asked Sir Tim Rice to do the plaque unveiling. Local bus boss Dean Sullivan provided a bus free of charge on which I hid two of Cliff's co stars from Summer Holiday to surprise him at the entrance to the studio.

Cliff was concerned about who would be present so I arranged that the guests were drawn from Borehamwood residents and with old timers like his drummer from The Shadows and Jess Conrad, who had appeared with him in Serious Charge those many years earlier.

I think I spent an hour interviewing Cliff before the audience and he was great. I joked with him afterwards that perhaps we should remake Summer Holiday as Saga Holiday and he replied, 'Well you will certainly get a part' . I was sad how the police and the media recently went after Cliff and personally I do not think he deserved it. Until next week, take care.