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Hi, Richard, Yeah. They were good times, and I had lots of them at The Settlement. I don't remember the names of you or your brother, but, then again, I struggle these days to recall some of my old schoolmates names. And it's a fact that, although there were a group of us at The...

Hello, claire-brum71, Pleased to say I was a member of the Birmingham Settlement youth club from about 1943 until I was called up for National Service in 1947. In those days a young lady by the name of Marion Messenger ran the club, with the aid of a young feller - but I can't remember his...

Hi, Phil, Your picture of Saltley garage brings back a little childhood memory of when my dad was trying out a second-hand car he had just bought and took me with him. We drove down Gt. Lister Street to the top of Saltley Road, when the engine cut out... "Ugh!, Ugh!, he grunted, and...

Re: Mods & Rockers Alf, I was going to say it, but you said it for me: some of us didn't have a chance to be mods or rockers. We were too busy doing National Service. In any case, I don't think my Sergeant-Major would have tolerated us riding those little motor-scooters onto the parade...

Louisa, I entirely agree with every point you make. All this new,"white hot" technology seems to be designed to cut down employers' payrolls - to the extent that, as you say, we will soon be a nation run by machines. And when this eventually happens, what I would like to know is: since us...

Couldn't keep away from Woodcock St. baths. I loved to swim. And even when we had been taken from Loxton St. for a lesson in the morning, I'd be in the water again at Woodcock St. - straight after school -before I went home for my tea. If this meant pulling on trunks still damp from the...

Alana 124, Hello, Alana, I feel a certain sentimentality towards Deal. This is where I first learned that the world was a much bigger, and a surprisingly much better-looking place, than Adams Street, Duddeston... !! I was born in Dudley Road Hospital in 1928 and grew up in Adams Street...

Hi, wessex, I've just seen your reply to Alf regarding your having been eating fish and chips in Deal a few days ago. I've just sent a post to Alf telling him I knew Deal, and now we have your good self telling us you were there a few days ago!! Well whaddya know...! What's the dear old...

Hi, Alf, I was browsing through this thread and couldn't help noticing your reference to places you'd lived in... One of them was Deal, in Kent. That brought back a few memories ! Deal is where I was inducted into the Royal Marines when I was called up for National Service in 1947. The...

John: I have to apologise for repeating your suggestion about a British Restaurant - but as I was writing my post there came a knock at the door and I was detained for approximately one hour...! When I got back to my computer I simply carried on writing and then submitted...! Sorry. Jim...

Phil: I have no idea where this cafe may be - but I'll take a guess that it is probably a "British Restaurant" somewhere...,!!! Cheers, Jim

bren: Thanks for coming back with your info about Kingstanding. For obvious reasons, the Kingstanding experience was not one of graphic proportions in my young life...! But when you quoted Warren Farm and Bandywood and Kettlehouse, I remembered those vaguely as having touched on my 12 month...

Peter, I must have been a lad of about six or seven years old when I had my first introduction to the "brand-new Council Estate at Kingstanding..." I can't say specifically when they started building the estate but calculating from the aforesaid it must have been around the middle thirties...

Colin, I think you may have touched on one of my relatives who I have never met...! In later years - when he finally moved out of the area and out of my Aunt Lil's house - I believe my Uncle Harry Jones opened a legal betting shop just around the corner from where he used to have his illegal...

'Morning All, I attended Dartmouth Street Junior School from about 1935ish, while Mr. Perry was teaching there. He was a bit old even then and my dad told me Mr. Perry had been one of his teachers. Mr.Perry was still there when war was declared in 1939, so I guess Dartmouth Street had run...

'Morning All, I attended Dartmouth Street Junior School from about 1935ish, while Mr. Perry was teaching there. He was a bit old even then and my dad told me Mr. Perry had been one of his teachers. Mr.Perry was still there when war was declared in 1939, so I guess Dartmouth Street had run...

Bill: Sometimes I feel old and cynical. But occasionally comes along a revelation that restores my faith in human nature. Your post regarding Meredith and her beloved dog is one of them... Have a nice day. Cheers, Jim pedley (pedlarman)

Old Boy, I well remember my first holiday. I think we called them "holidays" when we travelled away to the seaside. didn't we...? But, up until the age of 15 - that would be about 1943 - I had never seen the sea. That year - wartime or no wartime - I was determined to see the sea. So a...

　 'Morning, All, I'm always bemoaning the fact that I appear to be so old that nobody seems to exist who may, for instance, have attended Loxton Street Senior Boys during the same period that I did - 1939- 1943. So, apparently, there are none of my old classmates around who could possibly...

Hi, Bill123: Yes. Good old Spike. That comment would be typical of him...! Wasn't he the one who had inscribed on his gravestone - "I told you I was illl...! Cheers, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)