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Telephone kiosk. I pity the kids of today. Never will they experience the smell of those public telephone boxes or the draft that blew through the regular broken pane in them. BUT - Didn't the fish and chips out of the Birmingham Mail taste so much better when it was teeming down with rain and...

Ridgeway Georgian Club Many thanks for the information. Since I left the area in the early seventies always wondered what had happened to them. Had some very good memories of Van and Eddie and a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since those days......

Spuds-Nuts and the Braziers Oh Kandor the memories you have raised to mind. It was just prior to going to serve God and Country for the requiste two years, had been eighteen months but they raised it in time for me. I had been to the Gaumont Cinema and on coming out went to one of the...

Ridgeway Georgian Club Mary, I suppose it is too much to expect that Van Hagen ran the place in the days of your brother. The doorman Eddie would have long time gone. When you next chat with Chris, perhaps you would raise the query for me please............

Only went skating once and that was to Spring Hill in 1958. My wife, then newly met girlfriend, talked me into going. She was able to control all her movements and was very competent on those two half inch wide pieces of metal. For me I was like a floundering whale. The trouble, as I have...

Dennis, Thanks for the tip. Will have a search on teletext and see what I can do. It is pot luck I accept but worth the try.

Rod is quite right in what he says and wherever possible one should confirm the guidance/ information one is given by following up to obtain the actual document concerned but even with this in one's hands one cannot be complacent you have it in its correct form. Take the Hill case for example...

One is able to purchase the 1881 Census for the whole of the country on disc. The 1851 census is also on disc but this simply covers Devon, Norfolk and Warwickshire counties.

Further to the above. Reference to the 1851 Census shows the following: Living at Grosvenor Street West, 12 Court, 2 houses lived the following : Richard HILL aged 32 years a Power Loom Weaver born Foleshill, War. Jane Hill aged 34 years Born Birmingham Mariah Hill aged 8 years...

The first twelve months were a true drag. Most of it was tied up with the initial square bashing followed by trade training. Posting to your permanent station and settling in and making good mates. The following twelve months went far too quick as one had 'cracked the system' and for me I was...

Hope I will not be the only Brylcreem bloke to enter in this discussion. Decided, once my call up came, that I was going to make my two years as cushy as possible. None of all that spit and polish for me. Ok Square bashing at Padgate was bad enough but after trade training in Hereford I was...

My first toy that I can recall was given as, I believe, a birthday present in the September that the Second World War terminated. I suppose it measured some six inches in length and was a plaster cast model of the American Bomber, a B.29. This was the aircraft that dropped the A bombs on...

I was certainly older than two but at what age I am uncertain but my elder sister took me to some kiddies party at her works place somewhere towards Ladywood. At some time during the proceedings I must have become bored and left the place and found myself in a narrow cobbled stones street lit...

Age is getting to me - Help. Have sat here trying to recall those sticks we used to get that were like little branches. One sucked them and a yellow dye came out of the fibres within. I recall our mouths being stained yellow and all the kids sticking their tongues out to get the acclaim of...

I know it is off the area but I used to go into St. Pauls Square which is between Livery Street and Newhall Street. It was more an ancient burial ground but attached to the Church there was a park-keeper's hut. It was dark and very sooty from the coal stove that seemed to always burning...

I can remember on some Sunday afternoons, usaully in the autumn time, when mates were not available to knock around with and to stay in with my parents would have been purgatory I would cadge the fare and go to Swanshurst Park and at the toss of a coin decide which way to ride the No. 11. If...

Paul glad ot be of support. Now the leading question - did you progress up the main Soho Road to the Revue Bar (Club) I know it was open in the early sixties and the shows were a cut above Van's place but still very amatuerish. Had some good friends there and often wonder what happened to...

The club was run by one Van Hoogsraton - no - not the notorious one of late but an older man who was pretty shrewd but not the type one would believe to be a club owner. There was Eddie the doorman. Upstairs was a strip club and the general 'theatre' was on the ground floor beyond the bar...