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Hi Sue - been out all day so just catching up on emails. I will be interested to hear what she says. you thought it was 1964 when the house was demolished - we were living in it until late August 1964 so I can positively say we did have a roof over our heads, so if it was demolished it was...

Well Sue, I had long boots myself, white shiny ones, but by 1971 I was 24 and shortly to move out of Birmingham to Tamworth. You are obviously much younger than me, but then most people are, so it seems! I agree the site of the shop does seem small, but it was a large house. Three rooms, a...

Sue I think it was afterwards, because a company was resident there for a short while after we left, it may have been Doorwingear, but not exactly sure. I had a feeling it was 1971 when the demolition took place but why I think that I have not got a clue. Sorry I don't remember anyone with a...

Sue, I lived on the corner of Linwood (not Lindwood) and Dawson for four years from 1960 to 1964 - I don't remember any bombed areas there, but Baker Street was another story from memory. In Dawson Road there were some terraces at right angles to the road which is the bit I think has been...

Oh Sue, I wondered if you were there at the same time as my sister, but I think she left in 68, so she is older than you. Never mind. She went to Woodville from 1960 until she was 11 (about a year I think), then Handsworth Wood Girls'.

I think that the people mentioned in the book are, by and large, not as well educated as we are, and perhaps had little intelligence to boot. With low intelligence (surmised) and poor education comes apathy. One has to feel sorry for anyone living in those times, particularly the poor. How...

Spoil sport!

Joseph Hansom (of the cabs fame), and when he went bust, Charles Edge. Architects were always builders too at one time. Charles Edge did other things too, I think I am right in saying the old HSBC building on the corner of Bennetts Hill (originally for the Birmingham Banking company, BBC is...

Viv - that's nothing like the cover I remember, perhaps the one I can see in my mind's eye was for something completely different? I thought the red one was quite nice, but don't fancy the newer ones.

My husband oversaw the mechanical services (he was Operations Director for Interserve) at the new Matthew Boulton college in Birmingham - he had no idea what he wanted to do when he left school, even as he left, but his father had worked for Hopes Heating and Engineering, which later became the...

Smacked wrist? I should think so too, fancy you forgetting that! I met my husband in August 1963 by the swings in Handsworth Park. Ralph said he did the G Star course at Handsworth and then went onto to the Heating Engineer's something or other (numbers) at Garretts Green. He stayed in the...

Hi Big Gee, my husband started his apprenticeship at Handsworth Technical College in 1963. I think he did one day and two nights or something like that. He then went on to Garretts Green Technical College to complete his five years. Just asked him about Handsworth Technical School (he went...

Well Viv, some people would call that aspirations, not ideas above your station - and I am all for aspiring! I never liked the toilet roll covers, I always thought they were slightly odd - might be something to do with having dolls in the bathroom. There was a time, not so long ago, when...

Sue what years were you at the Girls' School?

Hi Stitcher - there is a web site with all the conversions on - that is how I found out what threads they were - but obviously I shall take my threads with me to make sure I am getting the right ones. I have to say I was delighted to find this web site but can't remember the name offhand. I...

You could indeed buy a cover for the Radio Times Viv. I think my gran had one, but we didn't. You must have been posh!

Well mine had to be interspersed with housework unfortunately! I would love to sew more than I do at the moment, but perhaps when my specs have been changed it may make a difference. Seeing optician on 24th, so will know after that if this is something I have to live with. Just looking at a...

Thanks Stitcher. I have already started it, but have to take it slowly as my eyes don't stand me doing much at a time these days. I have undone a couple of things I had done wrongly and re-done them. I thought the silks were dull ones, but it seems they had sent me so little it seemed dull...

Lyn, well aren't you the lucky one. I know if that happened to me, I would feel like I had won the lottery! Wonderful news. I felt lucky when I found someone with a picture of my gt grandmother's sister when she was very old, but you must feel marvellous.

Do you mean the Elasona? Not sure if the spelling is right though. I rememer it, but never went in there.