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  1. Patty

    Before and after

    Ok you asked for this , me and my cousin, me at 30, me at my 60th
  2. Patty

    Stagedoor Coffee Bar

    Thanks got it now, funny how you just canr recall
  3. Patty

    Stagedoor Coffee Bar

    Phil I think I can remember a bit know, If When I got off the bus and walked passed the town hall was it just across the road?
  4. Patty

    Dingley's Hotel

    I can remember what that drink used to be called my friend used to drink it (Leg Over) I stuck to gin and orange in those days.
  5. Patty

    Stagedoor Coffee Bar

    Talking about losing the memory, after reading all this thread last night I was trying to remember were the West End was. I can remember the Whisky, locarno, rum runner, cedar ect but just for the life of me remember were the west end was. I know I got the no 5 bus at Witton and got off at the...
  6. Patty

    Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Work

    Re: Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Wok I think so Jean a couple of years younger. Her last name is Maltby and that was her sister by her Rhoda, they lived in Holland rd
  7. Patty

    Beatles at Odeon 64 and 65

    Graham the Farcroft was in Handsworth did you go there? although there was more than 5 folks in there it was a busy pub then
  8. Patty

    Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Work

    Re: Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Wok here we all are about 10yrs ago all the girls at a meet up, we have one when mavis is over, she is the blonde in the middle and I am by her side on the left. Line up from left, Barbara, me, Mavis,Jill,Carol,Rhoda and Diane
  9. Patty

    Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Work

    Re: Can YOu Remember Your First Day At Wok Yes I can Alf, I was 13 and got a job at Mavis's hairdressers on the Litchfield rd Aston. I put my dress on I made at school I can still remember what it looked like with a sticky out skirt and loads of net under, it was white with big pink roses on...
  10. Patty

    Beatles at Odeon 64 and 65

    I saw the beatle at the Plaza, Rookery rd Handsworth. They were just about becoming famous, I had to get on a lads shoulders to see them better, we also seen the Kinks there and even went and had a drink with them at the Farcroft pub just down the road. When I told my daughter about that she...
  11. Patty

    Soda bread.

    Jean wait till you see the hairy bicker one I've sent you
  12. Patty

    Soda bread.

    Jean I was watching the Hairy Bicker one day last week and they made soda bread and one with mashed potato in. They looked really easy, so put find the Hairy bikers show on google and I bet the recipe will be on it. Mind how you type it though, I can imagine what might come up if you just put...
  13. Patty

    The Right Way into the Yard ?

    Di I was going to say something on those lines too. You had to remember to brush the dust off your coat before you went in or you would get a look of your dad. Happy days
  14. Patty

    Marsh & Baxters, Castle Bromwich

    I can remember someone telling me they worked there, they used to sort the hairs out for paint brushes ect, what a strange job that would have been. I will try and find out who it was
  15. Patty

    Oak House Museum, West Bromwich

    It's not too far from me, I have passed it a few times but never bothered, must go and take a look
  16. Patty

    Famous people.

    Sorry dont know why some are coming on twice I showed the back of the first photo
  17. Patty

    Famous people.

  18. Patty

    Famous people.

    This has given me a chance to have a good sort out anyway. I had a lot of these photo's in frames, oval ones and I went and cut them to fit that is why they are a funny shape. Shouldn't have really I suppose but it's done now. I have taken them out of their frames, very dusty in the cupboard and...
  19. Patty

    Famous people.

    Wasn't I naughty
  20. Patty

    Famous people.

    Thanks Linda very interesting read. Here are a few more bit battered some of them and I apologize for the pencil on the one, I always wanted to be an artist when I was young
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