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G G Jean
Brummy Wench.
Dolphie will go through our local phone book. Were free calls so don't worry. Does anyone remember Helen from Rochells she had different colour hair every time you went to the shop. She is skye blue on the forum and is posting tonight [if she can get a look in] 3 children at home. BYE. jEAN.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
I remember her, athough we didn't know her name at the time, we used to just call her 'the old lady'.
She had a basket trolley with the sweets in and she always wanted you to bring your own bottle for the pop.
If the bottle wasn't full when she'd poured it from her bottle she'd top it up under the kitchen tap. E.
She had a basket trolley with the sweets in and she always wanted you to bring your own bottle for the pop.
If the bottle wasn't full when she'd poured it from her bottle she'd top it up under the kitchen tap. E.
jennyann
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Mostly I remember buying the drinks made up and served in a small bottle
from our local Post Office on Marsh Hill, Erdington in the l950's. My Aunty lived in Kingstanding and we used to buy the same thing from a shop in the Kingstanding Circle. The drinks were called Vantas. I did a little checking around because I remember my Father saying that he remembers them from
at least l917. He was correct because the Vantas style drinks came on the market in 1903. Some shops didn't have the oxygen cylinder but used bottled soda water to give the Vantas drink it's sparkle.
https://www.waitrose.com/drink/softdrinks/softdrinksarticles/0208093.aspx
from our local Post Office on Marsh Hill, Erdington in the l950's. My Aunty lived in Kingstanding and we used to buy the same thing from a shop in the Kingstanding Circle. The drinks were called Vantas. I did a little checking around because I remember my Father saying that he remembers them from
at least l917. He was correct because the Vantas style drinks came on the market in 1903. Some shops didn't have the oxygen cylinder but used bottled soda water to give the Vantas drink it's sparkle.
https://www.waitrose.com/drink/softdrinks/softdrinksarticles/0208093.aspx
jennyann
Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Hi Jean: I liked the blue Vantas. I think it had a spearmint flavour. I am not sure when the Vantas system disappeared from the sweet shops, etc. I
imagine some shopkeepers made them better than others. Before Health and Safety there was quite a bit of home made sweet stuff in those shops. Not these days.
imagine some shopkeepers made them better than others. Before Health and Safety there was quite a bit of home made sweet stuff in those shops. Not these days.
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rozipoz
Guest
DaveM
How sad,I remember the finchley park paddling pool well,it was neat,had a well clipped privet hedge around it and a patrolling park keeper.
Close by were the swings,the pancake and the witches hat rides.They would be considered extremely dangerous for children today.
There was also a roundabout and a large rocking horse,we always left the park feeling sick from the rides and the big lads used to pump the pump until we thought it would break off and fly through the air.OMG those were the days.We were poor but didn't know it as everyone was the same.
How sad,I remember the finchley park paddling pool well,it was neat,had a well clipped privet hedge around it and a patrolling park keeper.
Close by were the swings,the pancake and the witches hat rides.They would be considered extremely dangerous for children today.
There was also a roundabout and a large rocking horse,we always left the park feeling sick from the rides and the big lads used to pump the pump until we thought it would break off and fly through the air.OMG those were the days.We were poor but didn't know it as everyone was the same.
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rozipoz
Guest
I used to know a Letts family,in Dulwich Grove,bobby,David and patty.
Remember the Willetts and the Proctors,are these the same Letts?
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rozipoz
Guest
Tee hee Harborne,see you at Banners gate,i'll be wearing a white sportscoat and a pink carnation........and er,silly grin.
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rozipoz
Guest
I was there just yesterday afternoon,this picture looks so neat,tidy and barren compared to now.
How I wish Kingstanding were as it used to be,Ho,hum.
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rozipoz
Guest
There used to be an old lady in Chingford road,she sold us toffee apples,I will always remember her flowered cross-over apron and she used to take snuff.
Has anyone got photos of the Mayfair cinema(the flea-pit)?
Used to go there every saturday to the matinee to see Hopalong Cassidy and Buster Crabbe with Emperor Ming.
We would cheer and boo at the hero's and villains,buy our sweets from Edwards sweet shop next door and play up Bert the poor doorman who seemed ancient to us.
Happy days.
Has anyone got photos of the Mayfair cinema(the flea-pit)?
Used to go there every saturday to the matinee to see Hopalong Cassidy and Buster Crabbe with Emperor Ming.
We would cheer and boo at the hero's and villains,buy our sweets from Edwards sweet shop next door and play up Bert the poor doorman who seemed ancient to us.
Happy days.
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Catkin
Guest
Hello Rozipoz, Yes i knew all of them, The Willets lived just up the road and the Proctors on the road that runs down from the pub and library David or Teddy went out with a friend of mine. Bobby Lett was my first love, We met in a cafe on College road on a Saturday where my friends and i would go for a coffee and some fun with the boys continually played La Bamba on the juke box...Cat
Langy knows the Proctors.
Langy knows the Proctors.
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Carol Watts
Guest
We used to go on the roundabout and witches hat, my big brothers used to crucify us on them. They'd run off and leave us feeling dizzy and sick. Remember the brook than ran through the park? My brothers used get old bits of scrap from them and build their own go-carts, I remember running under College road ain the tunnel and coming up through Hurstwood rd. Happy days?
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Carol Watts
Guest
OMG that bloody horse, that could be me watching my brothers!!
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Carol Watts
Guest
OMG that bloody horse, that could be me watching my brothers!!
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Catkin
Guest
Thank you for those PMC memories...Cat
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Catkin
Guest
Thank you again PMC, The billiards hall looks somewhat different i have a photograph of myself taken outside the hall, (don't know why there ) but my sister has claimed it and want let me have it. The Mayfair looks huge and yes everything does look cleaner litter was not dropped in those days...Cat
I am sure that you know that that noose was a girls trusty skipping rope.
I was thinking about remembering peoples surnames and it was the way we where brought up, because we called our neighbours by their surnames Mr Jones or Mrs Smith children had good manners in those days.
I am sure that you know that that noose was a girls trusty skipping rope.
I was thinking about remembering peoples surnames and it was the way we where brought up, because we called our neighbours by their surnames Mr Jones or Mrs Smith children had good manners in those days.
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rozipoz
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Many thanks Dave M,so pleased with the picture of the Mayfair,it brings back so many memories.
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rozipoz
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PMC1947
Is that the billiard hall just up from the mayfair flicks,all the "teds" used it all those years ago,if so,it is now a large Aldi store.
