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  1. Oisin

    Alcohol Prices

    Can anyone help me with the average pub price of a large (schooner?) medium sherry in about 1968 please? I think a pint would have been about 2/-, or 2/6d in a posh lounge but didn't drink much sherry meself. If anyone can help me out I'll gladly buy them one (or maybe even two) at whatever...
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    Strange Request

    Have any of you bus enthusiast got a picture of a BCT bus badly crash/bomb damaged? I'd like to use one as an illustration to a story I'm working on set in the mid-sixties. I'd be very grateful if someone could oblige. Thanks in anticipation, Paul.
  3. Oisin

    1960s Car Insurance

    Who did you insure your vehicle with in the 1960s?
  4. Oisin

    Ossy Osbourne

    I only noticed this set into the pavement on Boad Street the other day. Now hear there's another for Jasper Carrot. I'll have to sort that one out.
  5. Oisin

    Bull Ring Print

    I acquired this in a charity shop yesterday and wondered if anybody knew anything about the artist - Robert K Calvert. I've checked the web and the only reference I can find is to this actual print fetching £20 an an auction in 2005. Sorry 'bout the poor quality of the photo, it was a bit...
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    WWII Air Raid Victims

    Does any one know what's happened to the recently erected monument to the civilian air raid victims? I was down the Bull Ring yesterday and all that's left is the plinth.
  7. Oisin

    Tulip Festival

    The Tulip Festival has been mentioned in quite a few posts just in passing but can anyone tell me when the last one was held? I need to know for a piece I'm working on. It's fiction (well, it has to be off me, doesn't it?) but I need to get the historical background right. All I can turn up on...
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    Re: Airfield Protection

    It would seem the picture of my engineless car on this thread: https://tinyurl.com/yzzhuw has caused some discussion. It has been suggested that it may have been as part of our wartime defences where old cars were parked in fields likely to be used as airfields by invading forces. This picture...
  9. Oisin

    Re: Felled Trees

    I was round Handsworth Park this morning and came across these sorry sites of felled trees. I can't imagine why the have been cut down, it can't be the weather as they'd started on them before Christmas and they didn't look diseased to me. The only thing I can think of is an...
  10. Oisin

    Rebuilding the Bull Ring

    Just came across this one taken in 1999 which I s'pose is Old Brum now...
  11. Oisin

    Gas Street Basin

    I may have hung up me camera but that don't stop me posting some of me older and I think better piccies. Here's another some more from 1992...
  12. Oisin

    Bull Ring 1960s - 1980s

    I'm guessing these are classed as "Old Brum" since the Bull Ring has been redeveloped since they were taken. I came across them in my archive of slides taken in 1992... I think this bloke with the barra musta bin workin' on the lump as he wasn't too happy about having his picture...
  13. Oisin

    Where is This Pub?

    I found the following picture in my archives and can't remember exactly where it was taken - somewhere around Newhall Street perhaps?
  14. Oisin

    The Old Girl

    Florence (Ruth's Dog)...
  15. Oisin

    Our Khazi

    I know I posted this before but can't remember whether it was here or on Ted Rudge's Winson Green site. If it was on here I s'pose I'll hear about it soon enough from SuBee - our vigilant but friendly :knuppel2: moderator ;) ... OUR KHAZI Our khazi; out the back door, sharp right passed...
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  16. Oisin

    Lost in Time

    Last Saturday, whilst reluctantly being dragged around town, I was introduced to Roberts Jewellers on Corporation Street for the very first time. Although I'm no fan of that particular type of merchandise, I must say I was fascinated by this jewel of an old shop, which seems to be unchanged by...
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  17. Oisin

    The Siren & The Seer

    THE SIREN AND THE SEER Breathing in deep, deep, breaths, she emerged, water beaded, glittering, from the depths, silhouetted by the moon, humming an hypnotic tune with her long black hair hanging wet, clinging to her shoulders, dripping down her naked breasts. And he could only stand and...
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  18. Oisin

    The Sisters

    This is another bit of daft fiction, only suitable for reading during coffee breaks... THE SISTERS The door swung open and I was greeted by a grinning tangle of gold curls that was Rachael. Although she lacked the elegance and poise of her elder sister I had always admired her bouncy...
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  19. Oisin

    The First Kiss

    You have Kate and Jerry to blame for this: Kate for giving me the idea and Jerry for leaving me with too much time on my hands between epics. THE FIRST KISS It was a hot Friday night of 1960 when it happened. By the time my mate, Norm, and me turned up at Bishop Latimer’s youth club the...
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  20. Oisin

    Old Maps

    This might be old hat but it's new to me: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/
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