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its good they are keeping this building i used to swim there in 50s.....and we used the wash baths next door as well for a shilling you got a bathful of hot water soap and a towel .i hope the funding stretches to be able to renovate this as well as swimming baths .recall the school swimming...

I still have several anti macassers and embroidered table cloths and runners .i still do the odd bit of embroidery and drawn thread work ....my mom used to make "peg rugs" as we called them out of old clothes we used to sit cutting the old clothes into strips 4 inches long ....everything was...

we lived opposite mr veasey in conybere st and next door to what was hudsons bakery/cafe..the bowes lived next to him to the left and foyles ladder maker to the right ..

It was called dirty dollys .but her toffee was lovely lasted for ages ..oddly enough there was a woman who lived at the top of conybere street they called dirty lil .....

On the foto of hudsons cafe .(which later became billy newbolds bookie)..just past the van on the right the 3 story building was where i lived .im sure the man stood there was either peter or hubert hudson ...

Thats the first pic ive seen of the highgate tavern .when we were kids we used to go in the side door to warm ourselves on the radiator .is it still there ???

thank you for the info shortie

I lived in mortehoe from 1979 to 1986.i lived in a bungalow called hillside opposite north morte caravan site the lighthouse road was to the left of our bungalow .we often used to walk to the lighthouse spent a lot of time on rockham beach .grunter beach and barricane beach.after we finished...

Forgot to mention my brother was stillborn too..

There is some truth in babies being buried in someone elses grave when the very poor couldnt afford a funeral.i found this out when i tried to find my baby brother who died in 1956..my brother was buried in a large plot for babies .at that time there were 2 cemetaries that did this brandwood...

hi...i worked there in the 60s.the old cabins were still out in the grounds where they were quarantined ...very primitive ....my brother had t.b. when he was 17.he was sent to romsley to recover he was there for 3 months.....we were all tested and i was retested when i worked there .i remember i...

bernard .i lived in conybere st in the 50s in an attic high house .we had gas mantles for lighting .an outside toilet which froze every winter and a cubbyhole for a kitchen.but we had good neighbours and we kept clean in the old tin bath in front of the fire .

I remember as a child my das had 2 cars .reg nos. Were dlc735......and hoh80...i cant remember the make of the cars tho....but we used to clean and polish the big chrome headlights and bumpers....

I lived in hemlingford road .kingshurst .left there 1973...my boy started school at yorkswood ..moved moved to kings norton ..then weoley castle./northfield.

hi astoness...i live in devon so wouldnt be able to go to these places but thanks anyway......

Hi ..was intersted to see jack hood mentioned ..he was my grandmothers brother (annie mary)..when he died he took over a pub called the bell in tanworth in arden.his gloves are still hanging over the bar to this day .i beleive his belt was sold for a considerable amount of money when he died...

does anyone have a foto of lordwood maternity home .harborne ..i had my first son there in 1965.....

chico...singing in relays i think was called a descant ....

Old songs at school .....jerusalem....heart of oak.....the windmill......men of harlech .....to name a few......i remember singing the windmill in the school choir at the town hall ....

I found the resting place of my brother who was still born in 1956.i remembered the local funeral parlour and rang them they told me a lot of babies were buried in a mass childrens grave at lodge hill cemetary.i rang them and gave the name and date of birth and they gave me the plot number and...