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  1. Ray Barrett

    Summer Lane

    See posts 318 and 319....
  2. Ray Barrett

    Dancing in 1930s Birmingham

    Good stuff again Stitch.My dad used to go ballroom dancing in the thirties his favourite spots were "Stevoes " Newtown Row,and the Memorial Hall Whitehouse St off Aston Rd. This is him still cutting the rug with one of his grandughters,last year at the age of 96,must be in his blood.:rolleyes:
  3. Ray Barrett

    Norton Plaque (bracebridge St) At National Motorcycle Museum

    Ted, I seem to recall she left the official car,it either broke down or was stuck in traffic so she walked the last bit,never noticed anything laddish about her I thought she was all woman,:)but then, I would.:rolleyes: I do remember my old man kissing her...don't ask.:redface: Can't...
  4. Ray Barrett

    Norton Plaque (bracebridge St) At National Motorcycle Museum

    You will remember this lady then Ted?. Doing her warm up speech.
  5. Ray Barrett

    Norton Plaque (bracebridge St) At National Motorcycle Museum

    My dad and myself went to the unveiling of that plaque...
  6. Ray Barrett

    See Birmingham by Post Card

    Forgot to say Angela,your photo.is excellent,it's the kind of photo.that you can keep looking at and picking out people,who were they? where were they going? where are they now?.
  7. Ray Barrett

    See Birmingham by Post Card

    My guess for Angela'a photo.is 8.20am in the summer of 1950.The clock and the shadows tell us the time,by the dresses of the girls and women,it's summer.The cars all seem to be 1950 ish.,and the fashionable bloke in the left forefront has a windsor knot in his tie c1950 when they first...
  8. Ray Barrett

    See Birmingham by Post Card

    Great photo.of Corporation St.Ragga,but where are all the people and the traffic?,I can never remember it being this quiet. My guess,going by the shadows are it would be early evening.
  9. Ray Barrett

    Marquis of Lorne

    The Marquis of Lorne was in Newtown Row Aston,it was damaged during the war,and repaired:) Passed there on the day it was being demolished,my uncle was with me and he went in and took the fancy beer pumps...they must be in shrewsbury somewhere now.:rolleyes:. There is a photo.of it on the forum.
  10. Ray Barrett

    Decimalisation In 1971

    Decimalisation,brought a lot of problems,the cost of living went up quite a lot.The continentals were confused because they worked by the dozen and the gross (144) which suited trade with our currency.Working for an American firm,(who hate decimalisation)was very difficult,they used blueprints...
  11. Ray Barrett

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Primark sounds favourite.:)...Unless you have my luck,my grandsons give me hand me downs of T shirts and jeans.They would spend more on one T shirt than I would on a full suit of clothing with a matching wellies and a bowler hat.:cool:
  12. Ray Barrett

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Shouldn't think so Carol.I still have cufflinks and tiepins,but don't go anywhere posh enough to wear them.:rolleyes:.
  13. Ray Barrett

    Decimalisation In 1971

    Viv, The crown was never in general circulation,it was struck to honour that great man Winston Churchill.
  14. Ray Barrett

    Decimalisation In 1971

    The full set of coins pre. 1971.My dad had the foresight to buy every family member a set.
  15. Ray Barrett

    Back house, Lichfield Road

    Thanks for that Mike. It was a bit of a mystery to me,I don't remember living there but I do remember the move,it's my earliest memory.We moved with our furniture on a flat handcart,and I could never understand why they pushed that cart up the second steepest hill in Brum (Portland St.) ,when an...
  16. Ray Barrett

    Back house, Lichfield Road

    Mike, Where would No.95 have been,it's the house I was born in,It was opposite Ansells,and was bombed during the war.
  17. Ray Barrett

    Birmingham Cinemas

    Used to see Flash Gordon at the Globe High St.Aston,great stuff,especially when they threw us out for causing mayhem.:rolleyes:
  18. Ray Barrett

    What happened to all the rubble?

    The top soil would be set aside for gardens, I should think,and the subsoil could have been carted away by barge,you are always close to a canal in Brum. In the 19th century household rubbish was transported by barge.
  19. Ray Barrett

    Civilians Called up for war work

    I wouldn't know how to find these records,but someone will I'm sure.:) However,what I would say is be proud of your mom,these women were the backbone of the "home front". Working in factories by day and bombed by night,they have always deserved more recognition for their efforts and...
  20. Ray Barrett

    Coventry on Fire 1940

    A very early memory for me,but I do remember it,I was staying at my grannies in Overdale Rd.Harborne,and the people were all out looking at a red sky in the distance."They are having it bad in Coventry",was what I heard, but they were probably thinking thank goodness it's not us.
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