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Taste them and see. Redcurrant jelly, so easy to make, so tasty and can be used in so many ways.

Mom always made her own for us kids. So fizzy and so refreshing :yum

My mom attended Pitmaston School just before WW2 and I can recall her mentioning Violet Pretty who went on to become Ann Heywood. Whether she was a schoolfriend or someone who attended the school I don't really know.

This Postal district map, published in 1935, shows Lea Hall Road in South Yardley. At this time it doesn't show a postal district number. Maybe not yet allocated. I grew up in Sheldon and it always had the P.O. district B26.

I think that those Snuff mills were rolling just to keep my Grandma supplied! She took snuff in vast quantities (or so it seemed to us youngsters). Not the cleanest of habits, the snuff seemed to get everywhere and as you say the mell was all pervading. Her preferred brand was L260 but when she...

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Further to my post #474 a female woodpecker has been feeding one of her young firstly on the tree and then encouraging it onto the feeder.

I believe that immediately after WB left there it became the Civil Service sports ground, but I may be wrong.

Came across this book whilst browsing an auction catalogue

Saw these items in a local auction catalogue coming up soon.

A trade catalogue for Halfords in 1910

I know Barrows Lane quite well as my uncle, aunt and 3 cousins lived just by the army barracks at the Coventry Rd end. Our family lived fairly near in Greenvale Avenue at the other end of what is now Sheldon Country Park. Visits between the two houses was fairly frequent especially in the summer...

I also remember another one that belonged to the CO-OP around that area but I could be mistaken.

I didn't know that Wilmott Breedon had a sports ground there. The only one I remember was at Bickenhill/Elmdon opposite the airport. Used to go fishing there quite often with Dad who worked at WB. in the 50s/60s.

This is what I recall

Now that looks more like a bomb than the mine I thought I remembered. I have recollections of a large round object possibly painted red but that may have been from a different location.

On Wednesday I went to the local barbers and asked for a "No 2" all over. Hair cut, eyebrows trimmed, ears tidied up £3.50.