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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a Turks Head Pub in Birchfield Rd bottom of Chain Walk which ran down from Lozells Rd ? There was another pub opposite but the name escapes me. Sid Walker.

ABC Minors Alas I don't have my badge mores the pity, just great memories of days gone by. I got caught once sneaking in,but I was too early before the doors opened,and was quickly thrown out. :(

Does anyone remember being a "ABC Minor" on a Saturday morning at the cinema at Six Ways. A serial, lots of cartoons,maybe the Three Stoogies,and no advertisments!!!! Memories indeed. :lol: :lol:

You haven't lived unless you went to the Globe, the cheap seats. The doorman whould come down the aisle with a fly-spray full of a perfume. And the session wouldn't be complete without a black out on the screen. Oh Happy days.

Peter The school I went to Gower St tried its best to force left handed kids to use the right hand. It must have been a terrible time for them.

Ther once was a shop just up from the Hip and opposite the Bartons that sold Tripe and Cowheel. You took a jug and the lady filled it up I took many a sip before I delivered my errand back and earned my sixpence. Does anyone remember that place ?

Herbalists There was one in New Street on the way down to the Globe Pictures and one on the corner with Alma Street. They both had a cough medicine that was so good to drink that it was a pleasure to have a cough. On the down side they were the places to get Sennapods,my Gran' thought I needed...

Apart from the obvious What was a Plane Maker {1800s] ?