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Just a quick one to follow....... On D-Day in 1971, the old lady in our corner shop just inverted the 'd' signs by the sweets to read 'p' ...! After 12 years of School, studying the Imperial system, 120 teenagers sat down to their 1971 Mock 'O' level Maths paper in my Sutton Coldfield School...

There's no way of defending it ... Decimalisation was the biggest con trick ever played on the people of the UK until Political Correctness was invented. By DECREASING the basic number of units, prices could be hiked rapidly. My Granny would play up over a Farthing rise in the Co-Op, how she'd...

I've had quite a bit to do with the 'Vale one way or another. I remember seeing it being built in the 60's. I worked on the Railway lines (based at Castle Bromwich 'Old' Station, now demolished and under the widened Chester Rd), we used to reach the track by driving over the rubbish strew...

I'll try to get to the Pub, but work/family commitments are unpredictable. If I arrive, I'll wear my old leather jacket from the 60's (it still fits ... just .... as long as I don't try to do it up!). Peter R.

After a period of no Computer, I'm back. I've bought a copy of Dave the Rev's book and read it, cover to cover in one night. I've put a critique of it on the Amazon site, but basically it covers the origins, the 60's, and ending in the 70's of the DZ. As a socio-economic statement of the times...

I didn't go to that side of the City, except for 'Hi Spark' to get batteries, but my Dad worked in Streetly. I remember there being a small cafe at the Town Gate, which is where we met from Sutton College at mid-day. The 'Cowsheds' or the bus shelter was the haunt of Mad Dave Anderton, it was...

Ah! Yet another memory surfaces ... Yes I remember that practise. it was SOOOO annoying. All we wanted was for the Programme to start. To sing that Song over & over again was like torture. I just wanted to see the Serial with its wierd spaceships and stiff legged robots!

On the point of Veg, Coal, etc., from these shops, our Village Shop had a Market Garden which added to the stocks in the Shop, so this was quite common. On the subject of 'House Factories' - my Family came from the Doncaster/Rotherham area in the 900s/1000 AD time, going via Luton in...

My maternal grandmother woreked at the original Boots shop, where she was in chgarge of the library at the elevated top of the store. I had 2 other Aunts worked there. My Mother would take us shopping in Erdington - 1960 - 1972. A lot of my clothes came from the Army & Navy Stores (tough but...

Hi. I used to go to Tuckley's in Coleshill High St, Miss Tuckley was a local JP and real Character. Everything was in cardboard boxes or in neatly made wooden cabinet drawers. You could buy anything from a single nail to pounds of them. They had an impressive display of Bullets in a case on the...

Hi Rowan, Yes I remember the Wool shop, my mom used to drag me into there! Bicycles were Lee's oh High St, then Maney after the slump of the 80s. I saw the owner in the Doctors only a few weeks ago, he must be in his 80s now. Gills had childrens bikes and scooters.

Hi. I was stationed at Monyhull A.S. for a few years and lived in Cartland Rd and Westminster Rd. in the 90's. The entire Stirchley area was declining rapidly then. The Industrial Estates were plagued with Crime. The Police Helicopter almost permanently over the Hazelwell Rd area each night...

In the late 50s / early 60s, the Post Office in our Village was just a wooden table top placed at right angles to the front door of a small cottage. the rest of the room was open. A post box was fitted into the wall eventually, but most people dropped their letters into a cardboard box by the...

The Balsa Aircraft. I had one from Gills as a 10th Birthday present from my Uncle (Parish Priest - Walmley - Still there). It took ages to cut, score, fold, glue & peg it out. It had a long rubber band for power which was oiled and wound 99 times. Flew a few times, crashed each time! I always...

Gills & Frosts - Now you're talking. Gills, the door on the corner ... straight to the first counter under the near stairs where I bought my Airfix Models at 1/9d (I had over 100 at one time). Then up the stairs and left into the Railway Section, with, (from about 63 I think), Scalextric. Right...

With the passage of time, details such as names have gone I'm afraid. There was one, called Chris I think, who lived exactly oppposite R B School gates. He had a huge Railway layout in his bedroom. Nigel is still around, living in Cornwall. He is in touch with my nexyt door neighbour's son who...

Wendy, I went with older (12 & 13 year old) lds from Riland Bedford School. A Nigel Phillips moved in opposite me in 1963 and it was his friends who I went with. I remember that, during the week of Dr Who showing, in 1965? a real Dalek trundled up and down outside Burtons advertising the film...

Re: Sicience Museum HI, yes I went there too. Some, but not all of the stuff went to the positively awful, (my opinion) "THINK TANK" on the old A-B Row site.

Hi, I used to go to THE EMPRESS between 1964 and 1967 on Sat mornings. We always went downstairs, (9d) instead of upstairs, (1/3d). We'd go to COOMBES sweet shop on the corner first. One of the owners, Gwen Jones, came to live in my village in the 80s after she'd retired. They used to have...

Here's a bit of first hand knowledge. The Hangars were off Park Lane, on the 's' bends, opposite the Milk Float Depot, (both long gone I'm afraid), there are numerous photos and maps to show you where they were. The Alec Henshaw Book, "Sigh for a Merlin" is invaluable here. About 10 years ago a...