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The railings.. The gap between the one railing and the stone pillar was wider than all the other gaps but it was the only one.. Brian

Hi I took part in a couple of St. Silas's school plays in one I was a Snowdrop with a weired white hat, like petals, on my head. another I was a wizzen old man with a walking stick (reality strikes, appart from the walking stick) chased across the stage by a spider.... I left the school in 1951...

hi Rose Leeder we knew her as mickie leeder. It was her younger sister I knew. I was great friends with John Beal he lived next door but one from me, there was what we knew as an old lady living between us, Nellie Potter. I remember Tim Beal, over the road from his house was the pig bin, I...

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Hi David I left Broagham St in 1951 so i'm talking late 1940s Brian

Hi I seem to remember I went to school with a Laucen Bullivant. Not sure of the house number but the front door was in an entry on the right, to the left of the entry at the front was a shop run by, to us then, an eldery lady Mrs. Hands. Another thing that comes to mind is the Bullivans owned...

hi I went to the great bar comprehensive. I left Easter 1958 a fortnight after my 15th birthday. I had metal work and when I left I could use a lathe, pillar drill and most other machines found in a tool room, including changing wheels on a bench grinder. Many years later I had a friend that...

Hi I think the munitions side was reduced after the big explosion in I think it was shot gun cartriges. I was actually in Witton when it went up though not terribly loud it was obviously a very powerful explosion. I can't remember what it was and what caused though the Birmingham Mail had an...

Hi I was into tuning what I had for the hell of it, I had an A40 Farina I took the engine to group 3. Steel crank slipper pistons wild cam and after going to an old feller at Alrewas just outside Litchfield 10.5:1 took the fancy Webber carb off and fitted a single inch and a half SU and ran...

Hi Ah yes Only one engine rebuild but king pins and bushes and those horrid little pins the bottom of the king pin swivelled on regardless of how often you greased them. I was tempted to put a Tecalamit or Sindromic auto lubrication system on like we fitted to the lorries. I had all the bits to...

Hi My first car was an A35 van. A 21st birthday present from my parents. I amused my father when we went to look at it. It was on the front marked up at £130 I looked over it crawled under it said I wanted, it pointed to the windscreen gave a cheeky grin to the salesman what are we looking at...

Hi I used to frequent the radio shops in Hurst St. most weekends so on the rare occasion I bought a record it was easy to pop round the corner into Bromsgrove St. to The Diskery, that's assuming I had any money left after Radio Centre. Or over the road from Radio Centre was a shop selling Hi...

Hi Reading the comments on the expressions that don't seem to be in use now made me think about "Just after the war." and the first world war was referred to as the "14-18" war. People knew immediately what you were on about. Talking recently my comment, just after the war promoted a "Which...

Hi Yes I saw the reg No on the car in the foreground as an R which confirm 77 the suffix number plates started in 1963 with A It looks like the back end of a Mkll cortina 3014E. I was working at a Ford agency then which makes it mid 70s. Brian

Hi Another thing that popped into my aging brain. How many remeber the cafe/coffee bar on hockley brook in the very early 60s? The Surfside Stop. It was up a few shops from what I remember as the Birminham Municiple Bank, and a shoe shop that had an Xray machine in the corner so you could see...