Recent content by bobbo

hi lyn, save me a seat, i owe you a G and T.....incidentally, the paddington st pics have turned out much better than we thought they would?..great...

harborne, i think mcevoy & pinninton was some sort of cash and carry type of place and later moved into hunters rd, about two or three hundred yards down from the welfare centre.

thanks alan for jogging my memory...it was the flower show. cheers...bobbo

hi sue, as you go through the main gates of handsworth park, just to the left hand side used to be a sort of field surrounded by an hedgerow. it was in there where our substantial family used to picnic....afterwards, it was the obligatory rowing boats on the lake.......there was a yearly event...

hi astonion, the " allnighter " was a great place to head for when we were bikers....that hot mug of tea on a cold late winters night was very welcoming....we alternated between smokey joes in northfield, the hot dog stand, where now the rotunda has been built, aston bowling alley and several...

hello harborne, we probably sat next to each other in the villa cross too....i have a faint memory of what we call the " polishing " shop, and that is the " polishing smells "....one of my sisters lived close by and when i used to pop down the road from villa st to visit her it was one of...

hello mags, i always thought that it was strange coming through the doors of the baths at the deep end of the pool....oddly enough, i was pushed in at the deep end the same as you and carolina but by my own brother!....he was a good swimmer and sorted me out, but knocked my confidence for...

forgot to mention to you harborne, i remeber the drapers shop, my mother shopped there and my eldest brother lived only a few doors away.. bobbo

hi harborne, did"nt realize you lived above baines, bet we bumped into each other a few times?..we knew meesons well, we had our sweets from there before we went to the palladium for the saturday afternoon matinee. ( saturday morning was the villa cross matinee )..if there was a film on at the...

back of the net lyn bobbo

thats a nice pic lyn............i see you"re still on the ball . we all owe you such a lot for your lovely pics that you keep on finding for us...

hi, many thanks for such lovely pics..the lowering of the bridge is an outstanding photo, as are the hockley hill pics. they are all very memory provoking..thanks old mohawk. bobbo

hi carolina,... i remember the carnegie very well. as i mentioned, i was the errand boy in the family and did a lot of shopping in hunters rd including the carnegie. it was our local welfare clinic and being one of nine children our family spent a lot of time there. orange juice and dried milk...

hi maggs....brain ache has stopped now..thanks a lot bobbo

hiya lyn....i"ll give that thread a try........you know me and pics lyn..thanks for that