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Farmerdave, we have to count how buttons are arranged, the come in groups of so many 2 3 etc. someone who knows will tell soon! Cheers Tim

That would seem to be the idea for the cotton reel. When we had a boat we were given a plastic floating key ring as a advertise gimmick. I should only have put the couple of keys for the boat on it but I also added the car a house keys. We had a small swimming pool in our garden and at that time...

Re: Cadbury's Bournville Sure mine had a blue nightcap, were they all the same or could girls have pink one? Cheers Tim

Hi bluebrummie, suggest you visit CANALWORLD Discussion Forum on www.canalworld.net/forums They are great mob and a fund of information.

Neville Shut was/is one of my favorite writers and at one time here in Oz we lived just up the road from where he lived the last part of his life. We still have most of his books handy and enjoy reading his so easygoing works for a step back to happier times!

My memory tells me that from about age 7 I was using both Sparkhill and Moseley Rd. libraries which seems a bit odd.At about 10 I also joined The Octagon Library on Stratford Rd. This must have been a paying library,a penny or twopence and I think it was upstairs over a shop. Mom was a member...

Thanks for that but feel it was The Bishop talking in that instance! My Dad often quoted The Actress and The Bishop and it still works today. Always seems to evoke Dick Emery with his "You are awful etc." Nothing wrong with a bit of clean smut! Cheers Tim

When did Shovelbottoms go into selling cars? As a local I and my mates would stand in front of their windows deciding which motorbike we would buy when we left school on our way home from The Carlton Cinema. I also remember our horror when Aerials went over to The Arrow and The Leader. I left...

From the look of the trees I would imagine it was winter and that she is wearing fur gloves from C&A !

I went to the Toc.H Club a couple of times but we were a bit young as we were about 12 years old and the big boys wanted nothing to do with us. Feel it cost something like thrupence admission which included a cup of tea and a bun. It was about in that area of Moseley that I did the old bike...

Never realized this was on my old doorstep!

My Mom had a fox fur, it had a metal clip built into the lower jaw so that it would hold onto the tail as it was slung round the neck. My elder sister used to chase me round the house with it when I was young, I think I thought it had come to life and could really bite me. Happy Days!! Cheers to...

Don't know the name of the builder of The Stormy Petrel bikes but he operated from a shop on Stratford Rd on the opposite side to and in the area of The Piccadilly Cinema. The frames had extra lug braces which I believed were called "Jug Handled Frames". This was in the 1950's and my mentor...

Well that would seem to fit in with things as our co-op number started with 2 and my parents were married in 1930 and they would no doubt have joined then.

I have a similar hanger from The New Victoria Hotel . This was in Corporation St and my Dad was the head waiter there from it's opening in c1946 until the mid to late 1950's. I would say they were a very cheap product that were expected to be souvenired. Cheers Tim

Thanks for letting me know where I was on April 7th 1956. The Town Hall was packed and when the Stan Kenton Band performed "Peanut Vendor" I think the roof must have lifted a couple of inches. Despite a lot of assistance from friends I've always been a poor appreciator of music until late in...

I think those were small bathtubs lyn,baby baths and sometimes for adults to stand in for an APC wash (armpits and crotch!) pardon my French! Cheers Tim