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Well just saw this site pop up again as I was taking a belated breakfast! Any oldies still with us with memories to share ? Back in Feb 2017 I said I had been busy with the sale of a house and was hit with the realisation that this was due to our son dying. Not said for sypathy just that it...

My father was employed as a chauffeur/valet in Solihull c 1929 and was always into the latest fashions and had the audacity to go to his employers tailor to order a pair of Oxford Bags. So this story losely fits the subject ! He was called in by the employer who said his tailor had advised him...

It sounds Sounds as if you had a great childhood. Holidays were often a great disappointment, the memories I have of great holidays were when we went to a friend of the family's bungalow which was actually an old single deck bus with a dry toilet. Other happy times of spending days with mates...

Well done young man !

Love it when there is a comment made that brings these older forums back to life and sets the old memories spinning again. The more I recall about Elvins the more it seems to be the setting for one of those Carry On films. There was a fellow office boy named Tom who introduced me to Stan Kenton...

It can't be a Penguin as they are black and white with short wings that are like feathered fins. How about me throwing in that I think it is a Raven reading a Poe horror story. Nice to see the bus outside The Wimpy Bar. I could be on the top deck on way home from Handsworth Tech. waving to my...

To me a fried egg doille is when the egg has been so over cooked the edges go from brown to black and the yoke goes hard and a funny shade of mustard yellow. When I worked at GKN they had a sort of British Restaurant which served a square fried egg. They sat in stainless steel trays of about a...

Hi In the distant past I worked for finance company in Blakeley. My fellow rep was the licencee of The Bridge Inn Cinderford, name of George Price and I live in Oz.Cheers Tim

From memory the gate was black. How the hell would I member that ?

When I was a kid we used to go to the Imperial and got on the tram or bus at the intersection of Highgate and Moseley Rds.It was only one stop but quite a long one. If the conductor asked for the fare we would ask for a penny ticket knowing that there was only a 1and halfpenny fare for this...

All of the forgoing. On the last day at Handsworth Tech in 1954 a few of us bad boys went to the Regal and on leaving we said we would meet back there in ( I think ) 5 years. If any of you did I must apologise that I forgot. Cheers Tim

My Mom, Ellen Louise Hadnet started work at Wacaden in their main dairy in c1927. as a Dairy Analist. She left them in 1930 when she married as they had some policy ,maybe not employing married women or that she was turning 21 and would be entitled to adult rate of pay. She went to them during...

My first toy after the war was a car made from chalk with wooden wheels on thin wooden axles. When the wheels fell off we used the chalk car to draw the hop-scotch on the road. Not much traffic on the back streets in those days. Cheers

The Kam Ling was my favourite restaurant and our scooter club The Birmingham Cerubs used it quite often in the late 50s early 60s. My last meal out was there in June 1961, it was a suprise the club sprung on me when I left for Australia. Cheers Tim. Ps always ended my meals there with Lychees...

What a great way for a child to go. Did a bit of kung fu with my son when he was a teenager ( think it was I could drive us ). That was years ago but still do a few moves waiting on the micro wave etc.

Sorry I'm unable to help. I've done a mental walk up and down the street but no faces come to mind, nor do I see a Red Flag where I guesstimate no 40 to be. Seems if they weren't relative to my age group they just didn't count. Maybe Stew can do better. Cheers Tim.

Hi , Stew, well that was a surprise to say the least.Welcome to the club. Look forward to seeing what you can add. Cheers Tim

Well never knew about this ! I would have 7 at the time, when did it close ? Does anyone have memories of the place ? Cheers aTim

Hi Roger, sorry for the delay in replying to you but we've been a bit busy. Still here in Oz and no plans or desires to go elsewhere, at age 80 weve sort of run out of steam and whats left keeps us on our toes. Sorry to say I cant add much to what has been said already as we all seemed to drift...

You're a good girl Lyn, thanks to you and fellow mods. Hope your sister gets well soon. Cheers Tim.