Recent content by Oisin

Yes, Winterbourne House and Gardens is well worth a visit and right on my doorstep. Tea on terrace is a very civilized, English way to spend a hot summer's afternoon.

Strangely, my brother had both of those cars in the right of the photo, Vauxhall Velox and Hillman Husky, at different times.

As a socialist I believe there are crackpots in every political party and in every office of the council.

Should we be surprised if a crackpot project of a crackpot council has cracks in it?

Ah, the Little Brown Jug! The only place you could get beer worse than there was just round the corner in the Pelican - Yuk!

For some reason the street looks wider and I think Grenville's is a newspaper shop now.

I think I knew them as BICC (British Insulated Callender Cables) whe I worked for Cannings, who supplied plant to them.

Ours was still in the garden when we left our Winson Green house in 1965. The concrete reinforced structure in my wife's aunt's Handsworth Wood garden is still there as far as I know. Attempts to demolish it proved too laborious.

Yes, I remember that on the corner of Neveh Road and Soho Road - bit too straight laced for me to attend.

49/9!!! for a C&A suit (or is it just the jacket)? You're havin' a laff. Anyway, that geeza holding his cup out for more looks like he's had enough already.

Ah, if only all the info was on the WWW, Google would be our best friend.

I've been too busy sitting back with a smug look on my face to make any recent contribution to this thread but now I can't help commenting that I told you so. The project was flawed from conception.

That's an absolutely brilliant shot! Besides illustrating the era with the clothes and architecture, the two pairs have been cleverly captured in the same gait. I would be proud to be the author of that.

Nothing changes - look after the elite while the prols fry.

Seems to me they just stumble from one disaster to another. How long, I wonder, before all the books are removed and the building taken over for an alternative purpose.