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What an interesting thread this has been, as for bacon bones we used to buy them from the butchers. and cook them for Saturday night supper so cheap , but oh so tasty .

We love bubble and squeak , if there are leftovers after Sunday dinner i like mine with a few slices of bacon, and a fried egg sitting on top of the bubble and squeak (talk about healthy eating ) hahaha xx

Is it Ladywood ,Hyde Road as i am sure i have seen this picture some where xx

Oh thank-you so much this has made my day , but i have to be honest i looked it up through a book as i do-not know the pub, but it is a first where i refused to give up .xx Whipeee

Ha HA what a race this is the first time i have had ago at the pictures but i will try again.

The Haymills Pub ,Coventry road (I hope) x

So sorry Lyn, our thoughts are with you .

Thank-you Mikegee, it is good to be able to see where our elders lived .I will pass this on to other relatives .Thank-you for making time to look this address up .

Good evening ,just wondering does any-one have details on Brearley street. My husbands uncle was born in 1941 at 1/270 Brearley street ,and my husband send that it would have been the last house his Grand-mother lived in . Thank-you .

Thank-you Shera, for checking the marriage. The death date is the same as we found but my husband said that she had died many years before and that this is not the one. Also we could not find a death for his Grand-dad .Thank-you so much for replying

Good-afternoon, i am hoping some-one can help with a marriage lookup of my husbands grandparents we have the year there are born but the death is wrong for his Grand-ma. Here goes George Wheeler born 1907 and Kate Oneil born 1906 They lived in Aston Thanks Liz

Yes it was. i think social clubs are very good for communitys as they bring people together . They seem to be dying off now as people do-not use them as much, but we have had good family nights and some-times it is good if you can bring the children.

I have been to the Barford road Club twice in the last 12-months after a funeral service. Also i think people past and present around Winson Green use it for get-togethers for different reasons. As far as i know it is quiet to how it was years ago ,but i am sure it still ticks over with the...

I have also read this book, and i thought what a good read it was. I enjoyed her down to earth upbringing, and her mom always wanting better for her, but the funniest extracts were of her granny who had Dementia eating her egg with the coal tongs. My mom also suffered Dementia and some of the...

Hi Astonian , My husband was from Barford Rd; ,and we both knew all the Dove family i went to school with Tony and Jimmy , sadly they have had two of there brothers die in a short space of time ( Ronnie & Stephen) we would play between Wiggan Coplow , and Marroway street when we were kids.

I have to say i also love this picture which i have seen before, but i did have a giggle last night after talking to my sister, she said "many years ago before i was born they lived in a back to back house with two shared toilets which were very dirty and not looked after. One Saturday morning...

I worked at the shop on the circle a couple of years ago, and it was one job not too well payed but i loved it and the customers were so friendly i was sad when i had to leave . As i have said before it was as though time had stood still ,and the customers would just take their time browsing...

Hi Old Boy ,i could agree partly with you , as if i was a God-parent then i think i would like to have some knowledge of the child but when we where little we moved so much that the people who are our god-parents probably moved around as much as us, and never took on board the responsebilty...

Thank-you very much Steve i will give them a call . P.S i will let you know how i get on

Yes they are Steve .