Recent content by negritaspider

and did paper rounds -ah, it's all coming back... blxxdy slave labour, it was!!:p:confused::grinning::grinning:

I worked for mom's friend in a newsagents also, on Saturdays, same year, aged 13.

My mom was one of the outworkers - I think it was called Master Tailors?? in 1965... after my dad died. I'd often help her stitching hems or sleeves, and sometimes I'd drop the stitched items off to the shop.

Hiya Linden - haven't been here for ages. His sister moved to Bristol to be with her children, and his brother died a few years back without offspring. If you want photos of John and his parents (Frederick and Jessie) please pm me and I will supply (he is part of my family) Is he any relation to...

the elephant? Now that I have more information, I think I'll speak to my brother about it (he seems to remember things better from long ago!) That won't be for another week - so watch this space!!

I'm tending to go for Mohawks "Bullring" photo - I don' remember any of that area before it was pulled down for the modern day Bull ring - But I do know that my gran's house (where my parents lived on arrival from Germany was at the bottom of the Coventry road (as in Brum City football ground?)...

Vivien! You must be right about the elephant - my father died in 1965, so it could all fit it... except for the area. I don' ever remember going to Gosta Green - we lived in Quinton and my friend in Harborne - add in the ANN behind the elephant... would there have been anything on at the...

on the right in the army uniform....

John!!! Many thanks - but you have put me in a quandry... I am now no longer sure that it's a (complete) photo of my dad!! His face is looking like it's been added to the full photo ....and now that I am thinking about it, I am sure that he was MUCH TALLER THAN MY UNCLE (he was 6.2" in bare...

OK, thanks Pedro! So, now, where was Stone Radio????

and this is the 2nd one..printed from the negative the wrong way round so the words in the background don't help- but am assuming it is Brum, my father in 1953ish

Right, I am going to post under this thread, as it has the right heading... This photo is from 1960's - I am assuming it is Brum as it is of me, with a schoolfriend and mom and brother!! She has no idea where it was taken , neither does my brother!

Can someone take off the white on the left of the page and then clean up the photo, please? From the 1950's, my dad and uncle.

You are sooo angelic looking Smammye!! Are you still like that today, or has your halo slipped :heart_eyes::joy::D ?

oh, lovely! Thankyou both so much! I'm trying to clean up all the photos I have, to put them on my Ancestry account.