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Used to go roller skating there in the early 50s.One time when showing off at speed I came cropper and landed on my head.When I came too there was a gorgeous blonde enquiring if I was O.K. My first thought was,I'm dead, in heaven and she is an angel...wrong...She later became my wife,she wasn't...

Yes you can still buy dubbin,for your boots,they even sell it in tubes. However,there is a better product called G-Wax,available from Millets.

We ate whale meat and horse meat,there was still a horse meat shop in Park Rd.Aston probably after rationing had finished.We had no junk food or sweets, and my opinion is,us growing up during the war were the healthiest fed generation of all.:encouragement:

Annette, We lived in Clifton Rd.but I spent more time in Tower Rd.with my mates,so can still remember a few family names from there.I also went to U.T.S.1941-1951.

If that is the bit of Thomas St.between Yates St.and Phillips St.I had a school mate named Billy Aston who lived there.

Yeah,used to buy it for the pin-ups...such excitment,almost, as much as Littlwoods Catalogue,with the ladies underwear pages...wasn't we naive ?.

Here are some more of Clifton Rd.to show your mom Viv....Can't upload them shall try later.

Frothy, I saw some brycreem in Wilkos last week, first time for years,But it was a brownish colour,I think it was a jel. Didn't buy any though,bald as a coot now,a bit of Mr Sheen and buffed up with an old sock is good enough.:rolleyes:

There you go Viv.Street party,Clifton Rd.V.E.day 1945....

Vivien, I posted two of the photo's on this thread, but can't see them now.Do they need replacing ?.

I have seen it Lyn but still couldn't remember it.However,the trouser were etched in my memory...I ripped the backside out of them the first time I wore them...mom wasn't pleased.....

Your memory is fine Maggs,I couldn't remember where Henrys was and I had my first pair of long trousers from there when aged about twelve.

Have to agree with you Rupert.However,when I was in my final year at school,we were given lessons in local government and public speaking.Perhaps it was because,a few of our teachers had just helped to win a war and felt they had earned the right to improve the lot of the poorer people of society.

What a treat, a proper pub.They also advertise pool,I thought that was an American game,something else they must have pinched.

Some of the planners who destroyed so much of our city,did almost has much damage to buildings as Adolph Hitler.However, like him, they couldn't destroy what we think. Great photo's Stitch...

I suppose Bernie,it wasn't just a slum...it was our slum,playground and home.

One other pub along there is "The Bull"...

Thanks Lyn, Thats what I was looking for, Judy and I had ancestors living there c 1850s.Mine was a gt.gt.grandad,named Erotinard,born 1815 in Spain his father was a soldier,(15th Hussars) during the peninsular war,his mother was a "lady of Spain".Imagine a Spanish born chimney...

Thanks Lyn,I might be bothering you later:friendly_wink:.Have just had a look at a thread started be Jayell,it was very interesting,this is one snippet from there. “I went to the Gullet again -I find as many openings - dark passagesback courts in this Gullet, as probably there...

A name for a notorious street that has cropped up in my family research is London Prentice St.but I haven't found out much about it. Does anyone know anything about it?.