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For a lifelong tea drinking Brit, living the last 43 years in the smouldering rubble of what was once the USA, it's always been a challenge to get a good hot 'cuppa' anywhere outside my house! Unless I go to one of the expensive, few and far between Tea Rooms or other places specialising in...

Nico, Regarding women's clobber in the US. Other than advertising/media/celebri-slut etc., mainstream gals seem to live in jeans so legs are rarely seen other than pool, beach or boudoir!

Here's a copy of the video. Can't believe it was filmed almost 50 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGLNvBMmBo

Great thread. My Mum was born in a rat infested back-to-back at Hermon Row, off Tomey Rd in Greet. All gone now but I recently found an old map showing where it used to be. My Grandfather spent way too much time at the Wagon & Horses, just recently closed, round the corner on the Warwick Rd. Did...

Let me add my belated thanks for the posted video....good job. It brought back great memories of a great city at a great time in my life. Speaking from a purely chauvinistic standpoint, it was so nice to see women of all ages wearing dresses again, and of a sensible length....sigh!

Just found this thread and a lot of great memories came flooding back. I knew all about the DZ although I never joined, but I was a member of the 59 Club for a while. I rode bikes all over the Midlands throughout the mid-late 60's while living with my parents in Streetly. Started with a D5...

My Nan used to insist that drinking a little water out of the 'wrong'side of a cup was the only reliable cure for hiccups! It worked for me quite often but I think I was so focussed on not pouring the water up my nose or down my neck that I forgot the hiccups.

Reading all of your reminiscences on the coalman made me smile as they reflected my experiences exactly......particularly being sent to follow the cart with a bucket! My Nan did that to me a hundred times before I worked out when he was coming and managed to be over at my mate's house each time...

I spent quite a lot of time at the youth club on Foley Rd East in the early 60's......I was starting to realise that girls weren't always soppy and giggly! I seem to remember Jimmy Savile coming to open the newly expanded building around that time. Ian

Chris, if you go here: https://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html you will find old OS maps of the UK. Keep zooming in and eventually you will see the 'ammo factory' located midway between the Parson & Clerk and Barr Beacon circa 1920. Ian

Some oldies but goodies are shown here: https://www.historyworld.co.uk/admuseum.php?l1=Medicines+%26+Health&sort=0

I was surfing around the web looking at old map sites and found this one. I wondered if anyone else was aware of it? https://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html There is a huge compendium of old Ordinance Survey maps, Circa 1925, with active 'line' maps floating over them showing the current...

Does anyone remember Slippery Elm? Its still readily available today, although usually in capsule form, not powder any more. My old Mum used to swear by it for relief of pain from her duodenal ulcer. She would be doubled up in pain in the morning, make herself a Slippery Elm gruel and by teatime...

It is the Swan & Mitre (Ex Swan Pool Tavern) at the corner of Litchfield Rd and Holborn Hill, Right next to the railway viaduct. It was one of the 'then & now' locations I posted some months ago. Check here ...

I am so jealous, seeing what a fantastic time you all had on your Outer Circle trip! Great photos and what a hoot seeing the top deck full, I would have given (almost) anything to have been there. I rode the No. 11 so many times when I was a sprog, being taken from Erdington to Moseley I...

Here is an interesting pair. Waverly Rd at the corner of Malmesbury Rd. I seem to think that was the employment office at the back. Can anyone confirm or otherwise?

Well, let me see.....it has been with me since I was born. It works just as good today as it did then, although for a different purpose these days. It is about five and a half inches long. Its very well used but still looks pretty good. It is plain, nothing special compared to some I have seen...

I found the attached in an old file. Rationing in all areas went on for quite a while after the war ended. My Mum wanted to spruce up a couple of rooms ready for the arrival of yours truly in September '47 but still needed the right 'bits of paper' before she could buy what she needed.

And on we go! Another pair of then and now pics at the Central Fire Station....or the West Midlands Whatever they call it nowadays!

Chris, I just realised I linked you to your own memoir!!!!! How bizarre. I first saw your piece many moons ago when I was browsing the Streetly History site and forgot about it until you wrote #6 above. At the time I wondered who CM was and now I know! I guess I was trying to teach my...