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Hi to you both I was out with a mate last night and talking about out youth and he reminded me about making fire lighters for the coal fire. He said that he used to screw up the news paper tight, well I told him that my mother taught me how to make plaited fire lighter out of newspapers...

Hi Dave The spanish stick or liquorice root was for a penny a good buy, you could chew it all day, even when the taste had gone out of it. I think the reason we did have cold was because the houses were cold. The one I lived in only had a fire in the front room and one in the sitting room. The...

Hi Dave and Lyn I found out what Brawn was in about 2003. There used to be a real and I mean a real butcher in Bewdley and he sold brawn and I asked what it was. He told me it was a pigs head all the bone, skin and bits remove. it was then cooked and them pressed into the shape, with the jelly...

Hi Lyn I do remember that. You are correct,it was awful and my mother also gave it to me, thankfully just for a short while and I have never tried it since. Mikejee. Yes. They were brilliant. I am fortunate to live in Halesowen and we still have a few 'Lardy' chip shops. They taste wonderful...

Lyn Would you could you eat it now ? Dave/Lyn When you look at the cheap cuts that we ate then, pigs feet, ox tail, ox cheek, now the restaurants charge the earth for these cuts. I remember when we ate ox tongue because we could not afford boiled ham and how ox tongue is more expensive than ham...

Hi to you both And on top of being 'War Babies' and 'Baby Boomers', according to the media, we must be survivors, given the food that we ate when we were little, Lard on bread with salt, evaporated milk on bread, I even had sugar sprinkled on a buttered slice of bread, dripping on bread. All...

Hi Dave Yes, it would appear that I am younger than you. I am now 66. You were a true 'War time' baby and I was a true 'Post war' baby. Phil

Hi Dave I was there from about 1955 at the nursery, though to the juniors and left about 1961. My teachers that I remember were Mr Jones and Mrs Chandler in my final year

Hi Lyn The book runs to 147 double sided pages. That would take a lot of scanning and it would be a big file. Could a file of that size be uploaded? Phil

Hi Lyn Judging by the presentation of it, it looks like the authors wrote and commissioned it themselves. It is very cheap paper, printing and photos, bound with sticky tape, in fact, they may have done it all themselves. Definately out of production. It should be scanned and put on the forum...

Hi Dave I remember Paddington Street, it was at the bottom of the 3rd lane of the 3 lanes as you rightly say, backed on the Alma Street school. I lived in the middle lane in one of the houses on top of the hill and we used to make go carts out old prams held together with nails bent over and...

Hi Lyn Yes. You are correct Joseph Lucas and it did employ a lot of local people. I remember one day seeing all the employees leaving the factory at the finish of the day and spilling out on to the roads and some racing across to all the double decker buses lined up in row to take them to...

Hi Lyn We definitely did not have much and as you say we came to on harm as we grew up. Thank you for directing me to the picture of Crabtrees shop. It is amazing when you think that there was a pub on almost every corner in that area and a shop on almost every corner, but then cars were a...

I came across this society whilst having a few spare minutes. To my amazement, there were pictures of Furnace Lane where I was brought up. No 3 until about 7 years of age and N0 13 until I was 18 and the house was demolished. What childhood memories came flooding back. I do not care that we had...