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Thinking back prior to the war and afterwards I don't remember too many railings or fences around the cut. We just went down the towpath and started to get into whatever trouble was available. New fangled padlocks wouldn't have stopped us anyway, we'd have just climbed over whatever was in the...

Nice picture Mohawk good to see a photo when I was just a boy. Regards, David.

H InMemory of 'The Shrapnel Collectors' DavidWeaver (c) 2014 There'splenty of lost skin on those bomb sites, rubbedfrom knees, elbows and bums. Kidscollecting fragments of death, tryingto out-wit all their chums. Climbingover the rubble of lost memories, thebric a brac of homes blown away...

Hello Lyn, Beale Street was my playground because it was at the bottom of my street, Gladstone. It was marvellous for shrapnel collecting after the Queens Road land mine disaster but a bit dangerous to mess around in because of the shifting rubble. My dad served many customers with coal and...

Hey Dave my brother Harold dragged me down to Bracebridge in mid winter for a swim seventy years back. I had to break the ice before we could get into the water. Anyway I challenged him to a race to the water to jump in only I stopped at the edge and he didn't. I then turned and ran home as fast...

Maybe it was Farthing, Nico,, as in a quarter of a penny. Coin has a wren on it and I remember buying some bread for a penny three farthings. Long time ago for sure, Kind regards, David

Reared on it Jean, the smells, the sounds the people running it and the Brummies enjoying it. Ah for our history and the memories acting like cement to bring it all together. Kind regards, David

Ah Cookie you forget about the most important thing of all. What about all that family love and belonging, that's important surely? I telephone my mob every week and even in our eighties they still tell me off like I was still a nipper. Kind regards David

If my memory serves me correctly I think the smell depended on how close the bombs were falling. Kind regards, David.

You're right about that Mohawk my eyes aren't as good as they used to be but she's looking for her lost cat or maybe hat. Certainly wouldn't be a rat otherwise her name is Pat. Kind regards, David.

Good on yer Mohawk You mentioning Nurse Gladys made me reach for the video and I'll play them again later. Great times eh? Regards, David.

Hello oldMohawk, what about a younger Frost, from 'Open all Hours' sneaking passed into the future. Regards, David.

Hi Brenda, how many times I must have passed your family as a boy, and later on my BSA Golden Flash years later when we moved to Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield. I cannot remember the names you speak of but we were all part of a special group of people known as 'The Spirit of the Blitz'. We had no...

Yes Brenda, that was Aston. The dad worked for my father and he went out of the shelter to help dig out someone buried alive across the street. It was a direct hit. Mother, son and two daughters. I was with mom and dad in the kitchen when he came to tell dad he needed some time off carrying coal...

Sure can Mohawk, I knew a man in Aston who used one and he had arms on him like Charles Atlas. That's what is known as hard labour but if I remember correctly those chairs were considered the Rolls Royce of wheel chairs. Kind regards, David.

Does anyone remember a fellow call Odder? My brother, Harold Weaver, boxed at the Holt as an amateur and I went down a few times for a good hiding. Odder was very old as far as I remember but his left hook was lethal and the right cross very nasty indeed. I never could get the hang of it and...

Know how you feel Nick, that's how I feel about the Freer family in Church Lane and it doesn't matter how long time passes they are still part of us eh. Some say move on and maybe they are right but a mate is a mate and memories are our own diamonds to cherish. Kind regards, David. Lest we forget.

Hello Alan, today it's 40º in the tomato patch, 30º in the Man Cave and 24º in the air conditioned house, so I opened the HP Sauce for a quick sniff, of times long gone, and made a Sanga of bacon and egg. Then I opened the computer and there you were with my daily fix of Astonmemorabilia. I had...

As Granny White used to say as we held hands down the air raid shelter, That Adolf 'as a lot to answer for and if I get mi 'ands ion 'im 'ell' be sorry. our David'. Meant it too. Kind regards, David.

Ah how I remember the last dance with Brenda at The Palace, then home to Mere Green on the Golden Flash. Love long gone but memories are forever. Kind regards to all, David