paul stacey
master brummie
great memories Alan, I was telling my boys over Christmas , how when we were young, we really had nothing, Happy New year mate. Paul
Oh! those metal studs: they could play havoc with parquet, linoleum and some soft floor coverings.‘Mail’ boots and socks for Birmingham children in late 1939. Viv.View attachment 131094
Reading this thread - I don't know of children in Warwickshire got boots or was it just cities? But as I was an only child I guess I most likely would not have qualified anyway. Mother was no longer around and father a soldier. so not much chance of brothers and sisters.Yes i would dearly like to know whom ever they was they was a god send to our family of eight of us
And with the clothing we got lets just sat a big thank you for the good honest working people of that era whom made the contributions and a extra special thank you for our good old birmingham mail and they still great work for us brummies