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I was a bit of a whimp I think, I was usually the first to go in when my feet were so cold I wanted to cry. I don't remember any ointment, I guess I had to suffer the awful itching. I have, over the years since, loved walking in the snow on those lovely sunny dry cold days, well wrapped up...

My mother had just given birth to my sister, so a fire in her bedroom was a must and I guess they felt sorry for me in the cold. The reason I was out fetching bread was that Mom was in bed still, 2 weeks rest was the rule then. Wellies and chilblaines went together didn't they.

In Witton the men shoveled the snow onto the edge of the pavements so that being 9 I couldn't see over the top of the wall. School was abandoned for a while and my memory is of cold feet in rubber wellies, and fires in the bedrooms for the first and last time. Dad walked to the Dunlop and home...

That little boy was my cousin's son. I was 16 at the time and it was very hard to come to terms with it. But he drowned in the Foredraught not the Reservoir, which was railed in. The land flooded and he slipped in and couldn't get out. I haven't found the map that shows a colliery in...

Love the snow on the Forum, thank you guys.

Pullars of Perth, on the right of Days, were cleaners 'par excellance'. My mother in law sent Pop's white starched collars to Scotland once they closed that shop. They were packed in a horseshoe shaped box, back and forward they went until he died in the mid 80's. Days also holds memories, a...

Post 458 shows the number 3 tram, the 3x ran from Witton into town. If trams travelled along Aston Lane maybe 3 was on its way to Villa Park?

The tram lines had a lot to answer for, how many cyclists got their front wheels stuck in them. But on a dark foggy night, or even day when the fog was at its worst, how many of us followed them to get us home when the bus's wern't running.

Phil the land in Normandy road where the cricket match was being played is, on the later map, interestingly still green. How has that happened when so much land of inner cities has been used for housing? The traffic jam on Birchfield Road shows only one half of the picture. We lived in...

My husbands home was hit by an incendary bomb, it went straight through the bathroom on the corner of the upstairs, a bit of luck really or the house would have been on fire. It was in Amberley Grove in Witton. The people who own the house now will have no idea. What was part of our lives is now...

Somewhere I have seen a map which shows Handsworth Colliery, and there is a fine line drawn between Handsworth and Perry Barr. I will try to find the map.

Here is a photo of Peter, Barbara and me. Peter had invited some of us on BHF to celebrate his Birthday. We ended up at a bus restoration depot somewhere in Birmingham, having travelled on a vintage bus. It was a lovely day. Sorry, thumbnail won't enlarge. Maybe someone can sort it out.

Hi Jennyann, I do remember that you still have your parents house not far from my husbands family home in Amberly Grove. We have had a couple of meals in The Holt, Randy Lerner did a good job when he rescued it. The other pub across the road from the Holt must be finished now, I can't recall...

I have just spent a couple of hours re-reading this post, another bit of the city lost for ever. I went to Canterbury Road School, danced at Enid Goodwins' lived in Stoneleigh Road when we got married and shopped in Brichfield Road. So many very happy memories. Regards to the land in Wellhead...

Hi Graham, yes I'm in the pink thanks. It's nice to see Witton on the Forum, it is such a small part of the city isn't it. The Empress came to me after I wrote about it. I once pulled a tooth out when I was at the Saturday afternoon matinee. I dropped it on the floor and spent the rest of the...

Phil's photo's on 61, the first one shows a Witton landmark, the first white building on the right behind the van was known to us kids as The Bug and Flee, the local picture house. I should know the name of it but time and tide!! During school holidays there were always a few children outside...

Hi Jean, I lived in Woodall Road, first left off The Broadway, lovely to see the photo's on here. I spend a couple of days in Birmingham every year, together with my sister, we stay in town. One year we walked from our old school, Canterbury Road, down The Broadway and into our old road...

Great photo Viv, thank you. I spent a good few hours in the Library in my youth. The houses on the righthand side are still there, many of those on the left are gone, replaced by new ones. Lovely to see the tram too, I remember watching when they took the tram lines up.

Such a pity that the Lodge was demolished. It is a Birmingham disease, lets knock it down it's been here too long!! We were married in Aston Church, how we would have loved to walk up that hill to the Hall for our reception. :)

I love the pailings, you don't see many of them anywhere else.