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My dad used to say when someone was upset he'd say, Don't worry about them they're a bit 'cut up'. He was working on our verandah one day and said to me, 'Hold that ladder , son, if it moves I'll be be a bit cut up and so will you when I recover.' Regards, David.

Gu back to that barth our David, the tide went out last Friday and it aint come in again. Regards, David.

I've just been in my vegie patch watching the green parrots flying around and I was suddenly whisked to the other side of the world and another side of my life. A little boy pulling bags of coal to the side of a lorry to help my dad in Vine Street and Sandy Lane. Taint fair bringing memories...

Went to the teacher one day after collecting shrapnel from a bomb crater with a finger in a match box. It was my own finger of course sticking through the match box end wrapped in some lint and covered in red ink. Wow, did I cop it. Not because of the finger but the big sign wich said KEEP OUT...

We had a chimney catch fire one night, and it was a cross between Dad's Army and Faulty Tower's. Dad put it out after much shouting from air raid wardens and as soon as all were satisfied it was out the siren went and the Germans started bombing us.. Regards, David.

I aint coming all the way from Australia unless I get a sixpenny haircut from Wally Brannigan or better still MR Beebbe, I wonder if he's still got his parrot in the shop that would now be about two hundred years old, I would also like some faggots and peas please and some cream custard tarts...

Someone mentioned digging their garden a while back and I thought this would save you all some back breaking work. Don't dig it at all just let the worms work for you. Plenty of mulch and compost and Mother Nature will give you more time to smell your lovely roses and the structure of the soil...

Thanks Jean, lovely stuff. Regards, David.

Taffy Davies used to say, 'One boy is worth a man, two boys are worth half a man and three boys is useless. Regards David

Hey mikanmart I'm not bitter at all perhaps I didn't choose my words very well. What I was trying to say was that each generation adds to being a true Brummie like the cream rising to the top. We old codgers, The Blitz Mob' will be forgotten in a hundred years but so what, life moves on, and I...

Being a Brummie to me is the air raid siren, the whine of the bombs, helping people to dig their buried kids out of a building, standing in front of the Salvation Army trumpet player sucking a lemon half and listen to his mistakes as his face screwed up but those born today are just as much a...

There was a Bellamy family living next to our coalyard in Gladstone Street Aston. Try the Aston Church records now held in Birmingham I think. Regards, David.

Re: Electoral Roll request please : PICKERING This may not help but there was a Mrs Pickering in Gladstone Street Aston, when I was a nipper in the thirties. Could help to narrow your search down even though Pickering is a common name. Regards, David.

Thanks Mohawk, I sat through the thirteen hour raid in 1940 and often wondered why it seemed so long, now I know. The Queens Road bombing was also a reminder because Ansell's Brewery was behind our coal yard. My kids and grandkids are gobsmacked at the photo's, thanks agai. Regards, David

Re: vicarage Road Iwent to Vicarage Road School in 1937, anyone remember Miss Becket? Kind regards, David

Hello Astonian, hope you are well with all this brainstorming of Aston Hall and surrounds plus the precious memories attached to it. I think you are older than me, 1933, but thought the other day while fossicking amongst the earywigs and bobowlers how strange it was we most probably played...

Thanks Stitcher, haven't heard of that one. We're a bit careful what we bring into Australia though, learned the hard way with rabbits, cane toads, camels and flaming donkeys not to mention blackberries and Paterson's Curse. Kind regards and thanks, David. PS I suppose it's the same as your grey...

Hello Alf and all, we've just come out of a ten year drought and the snails are taking over but I just place short plastic tubes around the garden and tap them out a couple of times a week. Drink the beer, tip the pellets in the bin and stomp stomp stomp. Regards, David.

Hello Wendy, I thought Mere Green Road was too far out for the forum but when I saw the name I wondered if anyone would remember the fire at Hill Church around 1945 0r 46. Nobody can tell me anything about it, and there is nothing in the church books, but as I accidently started it I've often...

The tears are falling down my face, the kids all think I'm barmy, I can't afford a ticket home so I'm going to join the army. Kind Regards, David.