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ankle socks what were they ???? we were lucky if we had socks ...but we were loved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi lyn .now i remember i used to walk up maryvale road to get to lea house road. would be interesting if your aunt knew the campkin family......

Hi lyn i think i got my roads mixed up. My aunt and uncle actually lived in lea house road....put it down to senile dementia.lol.

would you have known the campkin family.one of them still lives there.my uncle bob worked his way up at cadburys from 14 yr old till he died ....his wife was called alice. they had 5 daughters....fond memories

did you do cats cradle.....

i know maryvale road my uncle and aunt lived there as do my cousin .they all worked at cadburys..im going back to 1950s i used to visit.them and get the bags of chocolate waste mis-shapes ..a rare treat for us....

yes i could do doublers didnt it hurt when you caught your legs though

thanks nick .your memory is better than mine .i was trying to remember it so i could tell my granddaughter when she skips..good times eh ???

how very true i certainly wish i could turn the clock back in time to see my dad sister and two brothers .aunts uncles etc. all made up a family unit which is so rare these days....fortunately i have still got my mom shes 88.yrs old....how we love to reminice....we didnt have much but we were...

hi wessex...i remember the toast with lard ..or dripping if you were lucky enough to have had meat for dinner. we used an old toasting fork up to the fire to cook ours as they wasnt always pennies for the gas meter .happy days though ..nowadays its all done in the microwave.everything is made...

hi stitcher.i sure do remember the hopscotch.we used to chalk on the pavement then get told off for making a mess.parents washed their bit of the pavement daily......hide and seek ..i must confess i used to cheat and look where my friends went.skipping ropes, we used to nick the washing lines...

as you say stitcher.....we had bomb sites to play and and pennies for sweets if we were lucky,..i used to do errands for people for pennies and give it to my mom.i had my first parttime job at aged 14... i left school at 15 and went straight into employment.and only stopped work to have my...

we are a different breed ..we respected our parents and teachers because we were brought up with respect...a slap round the ear off the copper on the beat..was acceptable by parents. today they would be prosecuted..teachers were allowed to punish .i usually got 500 lines ..there is no family...

a look from my dad was enough to put fear into us though he never actually hit us.mom did the punishment when necessary ...she had an old dolly stick like a broomhandle she used to get the washing out the tub with .i felt it more than once...it certainly taught us a lesson....but she only...

i dont remember murrils fish and chip shop .on corner of frank street and belgrave rd .but i do remember jarvis.s on corner of frank street and highgate street by st.patricks school. we used to have a pennyworth of "scribbles "with loads of salt and vinegar ...what year was murrils open ?

hi phil .thanks for reply....im sure youd have known richie arnold he was at least 6ft.4ins and BIG with it, nice bloke though ..

Hi...when i used to go to the hereford it was really a dump ...but ....i loved the people there ..its certainly changed now .!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you know richie arnold.???

thanks for the info guys....alec leake was a mechanic at turnpike garage highgate rd.....he used to drink with richie arnold.....i got highgate rd mixed up with ombersley rd .the pic you posted was a great improvement on the hereford i knew. .....

Does anyone remember the hereford pub ..it was off ombersley road ..birmingham..i would imagine its been demolished now ..i recall steve ..who used to always sing "the coward of the county "to me.in late 70's...anyone remember alec leake who drank with steve.??

I met my first husband there ..he played in a group called the rockin blue venoms ....every saturday night ...