Recent content by raz ullah

Hi all i was born and bred at 32 Clifton Road and use to barrow coal from Baglins Coalyard on a Saturday to our house for 2 bob pocket money , i remember a nice girl Shirley Baglin , not many kids today earn their pocket money doing physical tasks.

Hi all i think Tommy Shergolds brother might have been Billy who was in my class at UTS

Hi all had some great times in The Temple Bar in the 70s with my brother Eddie best mate Colin Hunt {RIP} and some more friends , the ground level was a bar, lower level was done out like a ship and 1st floor was a lounge, Reenie was the barmaid in the basement bar she was brilliant and Clive...

Hi Jane Telfer did you have a friend Jackie

Hi Jason i was born and bred at 32 Clifton Rd, 1952 i was born and new John Cashmore and his brother i think his name was Colin his dad was a Builder we all played together as kids and then there was Lily Moss , Arkie and Daisey who lived next door to us at no 30 we left in 1970 when the...

Does anyone remember a young Police Woman from 1969 to 1970 a Jennifer Bradshaw she was a nice girl met her for drinks in the Queens Head in town a number of times that was back in the day Raz X

Hi all i remember going in there between 1968 to 1972 when i was an apprentice with the Housing Department it was derelict and ironically my wife Gillian was born there in 1954 it didn't sound like a nice place to give birth . Raz

Hi all i remember going to the school dentist in Aston , it was horrendous you went through big green double doors and was then greeted by a Matron type lady you was then put into a chair with a metal clamp in your mouth and then a gas mask was placed over your mouth the next thing you new...

The Top Ten Bar was further along the road from The Grapes Pub

1969 to 1973

Hi Vivienne14 what a fantastic photo i always loved walking through the Arcade i bet these developers would love to flatten it and build another useless empty office block . Raz

Hi Dave89 did you know the actor Tony Britton was born in a room over The Trocadero Pub . Raz .

It was called Fannys . Raz

Hi Dianne did you go uptown with Evonne . Raz

Sorry Barr Beacon i don't remember The Bodega bar i stopped going up town in 1973 when i met my wife and we married in 1974 . Raz .