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It was they were so comical everyone knew them. Michael has more stories than me.
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Wendy
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I don't remember one. He would sometimes 'dress up' and in those days there wern't many who were as obvious as Barry. He would camp it up big style. He was mostly around the town in pale blue jeans and jumper. Carmen was always dressed up as a lady. I saw them all over the town as well as the Tow Rope.
davidfowler
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Great photo Trev. Graham, I have another memory of the track. I was a member of Lozells' Harriers Atheltics Club and spent many a happy hour doing "shuttles" there.
God it was hard work!
Also, like Jean, I used to go fishing in the reser and catch loads of little perch - if I was lucky.
davidfowler
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Trev, your post No. 519. Is the Five Ways phot in 1920 looking towards town? The road going down on the right seems to be Islington Row. What a difference to today!
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Stitcher & Wendy
This is getting way off thread now, but I will just say that I am not very good on names from that period. We are talking 67 & 68 and the only names I remember with any certainty are those from my own crowd. Don't forget what they say about the 60's "If you remember the 60's you wasn't there" Stitcher I have no idea who Scooby was was he one of the staff or owners?.
Wendy I do remember Barry & Carmen. Barry tried often to get me to dance with him in the Ringway Club. As drunk as I used to get I never succumbed to that. There were a couple more that used to hang out with them one was Danny who was a barman from the Rum Runner and his flatmate who was as tall as Barry but was dark headed and wore glasses, I don't remember his name either.
If you want to carry on with this conversation, please PM me, as we don't want to get in trouble with the post police.
Phil
This is getting way off thread now, but I will just say that I am not very good on names from that period. We are talking 67 & 68 and the only names I remember with any certainty are those from my own crowd. Don't forget what they say about the 60's "If you remember the 60's you wasn't there" Stitcher I have no idea who Scooby was was he one of the staff or owners?.
Wendy I do remember Barry & Carmen. Barry tried often to get me to dance with him in the Ringway Club. As drunk as I used to get I never succumbed to that. There were a couple more that used to hang out with them one was Danny who was a barman from the Rum Runner and his flatmate who was as tall as Barry but was dark headed and wore glasses, I don't remember his name either.
If you want to carry on with this conversation, please PM me, as we don't want to get in trouble with the post police.
Phil
Graham
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
David, do you remember Maurice Herriott? I don't know the name of his Brum athletic club but he finished 2nd in the 3000 meters at the 1960 Rome Olympics behind the Belgian Gaston Roelands.
In those days I used to work with Maurice at BSA motorcycles. At midday we had an hours break and he would run round the BSA recreation track while I ran up and down the outside fire escape for an hour, we were both training beasts!
Graham.
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davidfowler
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Graham, yes I remember him but can't recall the club. Would it have been Birchfield? I joined Lozells after representing my School, Bordesley Green Tech. in the Midlands finals at Solihull prior to the English Schoolboys final. Someone from Lozells approached me after a Birchfield guy. I remember thinking, I'm not good enough for Birchfield and the Lozells guy sold me on the "friendly" atmosphere at his.
I was doing long jump and triple jump as well as 100 YARDS. But the jumping was always my strong point.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, after several months I suddenly found girls and they forced themselves above my athletics. I still kept up my football though.
I was doing long jump and triple jump as well as 100 YARDS. But the jumping was always my strong point.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, after several months I suddenly found girls and they forced themselves above my athletics. I still kept up my football though.
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Stitcher
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Mosely was not a part of Birmingham until 1911 and was cosidered a most desirable residential suburb for sometime before this date.The Fighting Cocks has been an inn since the 18th century. The first picture shows the mid-Victorian building. The second shows how it was replaced with shops in 1899 and the pub itself being re-built on the corner.
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Ill bet you got that wrong. Those responsible will have got a bonus and pay rise.
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Phil
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Chucka
Its not very good and a little earlier than what you require, but it does show the recruiting offices, although it may have been just army at this time.
Anyway if its not the one you require, its another good photo of a part of the city that we haven't covered.
Phil
Its not very good and a little earlier than what you require, but it does show the recruiting offices, although it may have been just army at this time.
Anyway if its not the one you require, its another good photo of a part of the city that we haven't covered.
Phil
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Peter Walker
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The 1956 Kelly's shows two recruiting offices in James Watt Street - the Army place at No 14, on the north side of the street, just below Dalton Street, and the Navy place over the Crown pub on the other side of the street at the corner of Corporation Street. The recent colour photos are of the later Yates pub which seemed to be closed down in recent months. I nearly went in last year, but went to the Crown opposite which was not so noisy.
In 1956 the site of the recent Yates building was the Court Restaurant on the ground floor, with Salvation Army offices over. The Court was there in 1904, so it must have been a fairly solid establishment, possibly using the name as a cover for the pub which is what I seem to recall it as. This might have been to mollify their neighbours and possibly landlords, the Salvation Army, who used the accomodation upstairs for their purposes. By 1973 there was a firm, Associated Chemists (Birmingham) Ltd on the corner, next to the Dragon restaurant. I don't know when Yates took the property over, and it got a licence again.
I remember the old Yates Wine Lodge (aka Central Restaurant) at 15 Corporation Street, which ran through to 8 Cannon Street, but we're getting far off topic now. . . .
Peter
In 1956 the site of the recent Yates building was the Court Restaurant on the ground floor, with Salvation Army offices over. The Court was there in 1904, so it must have been a fairly solid establishment, possibly using the name as a cover for the pub which is what I seem to recall it as. This might have been to mollify their neighbours and possibly landlords, the Salvation Army, who used the accomodation upstairs for their purposes. By 1973 there was a firm, Associated Chemists (Birmingham) Ltd on the corner, next to the Dragon restaurant. I don't know when Yates took the property over, and it got a licence again.
I remember the old Yates Wine Lodge (aka Central Restaurant) at 15 Corporation Street, which ran through to 8 Cannon Street, but we're getting far off topic now. . . .
Peter
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