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I had my appendix removed at Dudley Road and I remember the exact week as on the 6th May 1960 Princess Margaret married and we had a TV in the war just so we could watch the wedding. I also remember that The Army Game used to be on TV on Friday nights. It finished at 8.45 and one of the staff...

Aunty Olive (Tombs) was born in Wolstanton. She was my nan's step sister. She died in 1986. She married a John Henry Parsons and they lived in Sydenham Road, Sparkbrook. There were two daughters and to sons, Stanley and John, Joan Edna born. I remember Joan very well but none of the others...

Mom and I used to walk up to that sweet shop every Friday night. We used to go to a Fish and Chip shop in Adderley Road until one opened in Arden Road. Do you remember the hardware shop that was on the corer of St. Saviours and Arden? They used to have three big oil drums, two filled with...

Don't know anything about Tony. Although someone on this forum told me he worked in the markets with Roy Pugsley but I don't know anything else. I lived at 55 Ash Road. There were three blocks of flats opposite Hall Road. We lived in the first block on the ground floor. John Griffiths lived...

I remember you very well. Didn't you stay on an extra year? I just know you were older that everyone else in the class, By the way Tony Belfield died some years ago.

Did any of your Handley's have connections to Manchester, Handsworth, Sutton Coldfield, Rhyl (North Wales) or Typewriters?

Arthur Holden (domestic pain) were on one corner of Burbage Road, Thornley & Knight on the other corner. A friend's relatives were the care-takers of Arthur Holden and lived in a part of the factory. I used to go with my friend to see her aunt who taught us ballroom dancing. My husband worked...

Is this Joan?

Great to read all this. Yes, I was at Adderley Infants and Juniors, then onto Cherrywood. I lived in the flats opposite Hall Road. Mr Tennant was our form master in the first year then I moved to 2nd year and it was Miss Oldbury. After 2 weeks the school decided I was too old to be in the...

In the 1960's I used to go with a friend and her parents to the Caledonian Corks Club" in Golden Hillock Road, (Towards the Coventry Rd) It was what used to be called a "Working Man's Club".

Yes, it is on the corner. In the 1970's it used to be a ladies clothes shop and I bought a mustard coloured, velvet cape (all the rage in those days!)

Just thought - Mrs Cutts paid me 1/- per hour. At the age of 13 I was rich, 8 hours = 8/- every week!

Of course it was 1955. My fingers move quicker than my brain sometimes. What's happening with all these duplicate posts?

Of course it was 1955. My fingers move quicker than my brain sometimes.

I lived in Ash Road from about 1855 - 1967. I lived in the flats opposite Hall Road. The houses previously on that site had been bombed in WW2. I remember the Post Office, which was a bit further down, I also remember the two "new" houses and also the haberdashery shop that was on the corner...