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Hi Maurice on that subject of steralised milk , we was brought up on it for drinking it from the bottle and for a good old cuppa All my life of growing up we never had the pasure ,it was only when i came into the Irish communitity...

Hi Mike just like to say that i have just picked up on your early thread when you said that way back in those years about the wife running the pub , or if you like to hear the word of beer seller , it was the case more often than not , that there partner...

Hi Alan I have got to say you have just beatn me to the Dares Advertisment the excact one I notice you never put any info on it as i can only presume you have taken the picture from the railway bridge but never or less its great that you have got it on for members and the forum...

Peg we bought ours at spring hil but we bought old winniie Attwell great pianoist Along with paul anker and of cours pat boone april love Did you not like old libby archie ,, best wishes Astonian,,,,,

Hi viv We are getting great pictures at the moment on here by our great members , but i would like to see the old garden steps that was down the side of the hall ,i dont think anybody as produced one yet i say that because of those big vases was on the stair...

Hi Ray you are quite correct to say that GC Was in Consstution street which they was most indeed and prior to that before the war years they occupied a very large building on the corner of bordesly street and along the new cannal street digbeth and its...

Has Roshan As said on a history log they was in Norton Street just down off the lodge road oppersite the all saints hospital as you go up the lodge road and over the hump bridge with the cannal running behind it down behind the Mc Dougles...

No there was a polish comunity long before then it was about half way up the hill its where they buil a park or some think before it was a barron land of peoples grave as you walk throgh it this is in the fiftry many moons before any sign of demostrar=tion and there was a little garage...

hi viv i beleive they built there first communitity on top end of Bordesley street digbeth just below the old grve yard which later became a park there i think it was around 1953 to 55 and you had to go up a flight of steps to enter it was really marvellous inside...

Hi guys, was the very first convelesent set up in wales by the comisist party by stevenson anf george jelf committe

Hi OldMohawk Here is another photograph you may want to see its another devated street in sparkbrook birmingham 1941 a complete nialated street which was very nasty january 2 1941Alfred street Spark brook Taken and posted in the...

Hi Viv, Nice pictures yes i have got you correct , they are the same pubs i have got the evenidence in front of me your first pub showing is the original one showing the kings Arms Pub that once stood on the corner of suffolk street and Henley...

Hi radiorails I Can tell you that provident and shopercheck and S U are the same group of people starting from S U whom grew to be a big multie company and there big office and stores warehouse was in the city centre next to the rag...

Hi Frothy Many thanks for bringing colins name to the fore as you say us older ones of the forum Its been afew years back now since we had colin on he done us proud I certainly recall colin my sincere condolence and my heart goes...

Hi Ray do you recall the big fire at parkisons as i do my old dutchess the wife lived in Mannor road and there house over looked the factory as there was high ground we was all sitting out side have a cuppa when we seen the Smoke belowing up and the...

Hi viv Thanks for replying to my thread but what got me thinking about the UXB Bomb was firstly i have missed out a page out of the birmingham post which i have got lots of there copies for those periods even 1912 upwards But this particular...

Hi Guys Here isabit of info about the german bombers taken from the birmingham post august 15 1940 and the first of bombing was in stechford 1940 regarding the uxb my theory would say he was making his way acros to ICI Witton for the Ammo factory in...

hi Hi there Ben, there was more than one subbie there outside the mermaid taking on men it was not only gallie there was the JJ Gallagher ,the doyles and the murthys and of course Mc Alpines and there was the joyces the Browns and...

Hi Guys Here is a photograph of the early police force of the early editions when first formed And this is the very first and last time our great police force ever came out on strike and this as never been printed on this forum ever OFF BEAT...

Hi Alan Great stuff thanks a million thats the photo i mentioned to Lynn the other missing picture that was on there when she done it donkeys years ago i remember it as well as i use to pass it day and night and the lads as well there used to be a chippie...