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Sunday When I was 11yrs old Sunday at our house dureing the summer, meant that after the table was cleared and dishes washed and put away, there would be one of three choices. One, we would all, Mom, Dad, my brother and sister,and I would go for a walk to Sutton Park where we would go in one...

What music brings out your emotions Dean Martin and Nat King Cole are my favorite male singers. Vera Lynne and Gracie Fields did it for me dureing the war years when I was overseas in the RAF , all the sentimental songs they had dureing the war really helped me forget I was thousands of...

Paul, You are not alone, old songs do it to me to, they bring back all the old memories of my teenage years and when I was in the RAF. we used to get all the romantic songs over the PA system. Today although I'm in my 70s I still sing those old songs as I go about the days chores. Happy Days...

Loxton St School I went to Loxton st School back about 1938 when I was 8yrs old and living in Vauxhall. We left there when I was 11yrs old and went to live in a new house in Kingstanding. I remember I had to walk up Duddeston Mill Rd over the railway bridge down to, I think it was Gt Lister...

Dave, I wouldn't know where the 100 acre estate is I have been in the USA. since 1953 and over the years a lot has changed. I know that when I lived in Kingstanding there was a large field at the back of our houses we used to call the Common , I am told that there are houses all over it now...

When I was about 8or9 years old we lived on Alma Crescent in Vauxhall. We was lucky because we lived in the house faceing the street all the others were up the yard at the back. I remember there used to be a man up the street who kept pigs and we used to save all the potatoe peelings and cabbage...

Does anyone remember Gob Stoppers ?? It was a hard candy ball about half the size of a golf ball. Anyway when I was about 5 years old we lived in Erdington up this yard and it so happened one day I was sucking on a Gob Stopper and it slipped down my throat and got stuck and I couldn't breath...

England was the place of my birth Birmingham my home Kingstanding was where I lived From where I used to roam. I roamed across the sea one day To a place called Pennsylvania This was in the USA And I was just a stranger I went to work And bought some land And built myself a home...