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HI Lawrence I recall a couple of them teachers i went there in the fifty when i left yes urchie and kitchen i am surprized he took lads fishing on his waters he was always mean looking and nasty with it but i guess that period...

well cookie the day i done that thread was the same day the mail had printed it on there tele pages other wise i was no wiser than that day i only copyied what i had read that morning and then i thought i may get other members comments but no there was no...

Hi Guys, Here is a picture i think i have just rediscovered and its the old original clock i beleive which wa sited at the old five ways many years ago as you can see by the heading of the news paper the year the picture was taken , and i dearly...

Hi chris Have you any idea which year of the birminghm post it could possibly printed in please about george luckman, as i have got several years of the periods in my possesion and from the war years they was printed into series s So if you can give us...

Hi devon jim If you came out of moor street and walk down towards digbeth and i think it was park street the very first street you come to which i beleive in then days there was the thearter next to the old ship inn on the corner...

mike i would have said bordesley street myself but bearing inmind of slut lane and of course around the squre mile of the hide and skin yard there was quite afew holding penns the quarter of bordesly street at the moment i just cannot think of the named roads closest as a nipper at grand...

Hi Maurice Nice to hear and speak again with you ,hope you had a wonderful day yes it was a very sad thing to happen to my dear friend graham since we was kids i went around to call for him as we used To go out regular during the...

My old friend graham used to work for the Benny lift company around the midlands as an apprentice and served electrician as well , until they went out of business he worked there for years until they made him redundant he spent about 12 months unemployed he tried and tried but to no avail...

hi mike i am trying to pin point a relative to my mothers family way back in the late fiftys it was a chippie shop very close to the spring hill libary oppersite and next to bullpitts factory by the junction of springhill there was a...

Hi Lloyed yes are correct what lynn as put on regarding the mermaid pub , i have just dug out my reffernce books And it clearly shows that it was the mermaid and that it early part of the century the book i have with the...

Hi Guys To be fair to susie there was dozens of furishing shops up along soho road that i do know from one end to another and with out due respect to mike and the electrol rolls of registration it was a very dodgy road regarding registrations of...

what about aston park have they got any think like it left or its gone to the dogs like peter pan was it was very good in its hey day very smart functioning us kids loved it so all the people of aston did pitty they got rid of the park keepers i say

well i am pretty sure i have got that book some where as i do seem to recall it seeing but i am desperatly searching out my cubard before some one come up with the answer Astonian,,,

Hi Ellbrown, Yes it certaily is a problem with these homeless guys around the city of brum its unbeileveable its not so good for the tourist to see them it certainly aint doing any favours now is it I have to admit ell. when my...

Hi Ellbrown Credit is due where works of art is given in you providing us with great photographics And taking photographic picture is an art within it,s self, plus, you have given me great momentuous memories of my growing up within...

Hi Guys and mainly Ellbrown Has i was looking for the section of the cannals,and when i found it ,it said we do not have many pics of the cannal water ways But as most members should recall me going on about my cannals as a kid spending all my young days down there...

Well Lynn In our day the expression was scavenger was worthless person picking up any think he could get is hands on In other words a low life no good for any think scourng for any think I would not have called an old rubbish collector a bin man...

Hi Grah I will try and contact our kid later he was always in there with his mates more than me in fct he was curry mad liked is booze our kid but i will say he is paying for it now thou i can see the joint now grah , but like you i just cannot name it...

Hi LAURENCE Yes i do have to agree with you its a very good read , i have actuly got and read the book a long time ago did you see the picture of the bombers of ledsam street ladywood you will see it in a book called...

yes peg a great pub in its heyday plenty of music great sounds and partys my aunti worked there in the early fortys and up to about 1948 may be a little later when she worked there my aunt only had one child of age he became she desperatly wanted to have another child but sadly her health...