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Thanks, chaps. you've made an old dear very happy. lol!

I was there for the music! LOL! It was another world - somewhere to escape to, and I loved it there. I was 16 when I started there and just 18 when i left. My mom let me work there because there was a staff bus which brought me home at the end of each night - right to the door. Just a...

The photos were taken in 1973/4. The man in the 3rd photo was a regular customer who used to visit the club every Thursday or Friday night. Always alone. Always sat at the same table. Always had his photo with the cabaret artist every week. I was flattered when he wanted his photo with...

Not so young, not so slim, not so blond, not so bendy any more either. :-(

I was taken to see Santa at Lewis' every year. I remember queuing along the stairwell that surrounded the lifts. I also remember watching punch and judy shows on the roof garden. Then someone jumped off the roof, so they shut it. :-( I also remember that there was a whole floor dedicated...

Google 'Gimp'. This is a free picture editing program with all the functions that photoshop has.

My mother in law came down from Glasgow, during the war, to work on the spitfires here. After the war, my father in law became a shop steward there, and my husband and brother in law both worked there for a time. Recently, i came across the place as a place to have a 'day trip' / visit - a...

When i was a teen, around 1969 ish, there was a big, posh derelict house just past the Three Horse Shoes pub on the A45. On the same side of the road. I think its a car sales garage, now............ We used to go scrumping there as there were some beautiful plum trees at the back...

Also from La Dolce Vita:

I worked at La Dolce Vita from 1972 to 1974. I shared a dressing room with the Bandwagon as Johnny Johnson regarded himself as too much of a star to share his. Hopefully, I will have managed to attach a staff photo from then.

Thanks again. We knew they were no longer living together but are unsure why. My sister in law thinks that they were separated. I will take a look at some records when i'm next in the library [Tuesday], when I get free access to the records.

Ellen Amelia Cadman [nee Robinson] ended up living in a house in Gravelly Lane, Erdington. My father in law bought it - we think from the landlord, after a bit of a bidding war with other tenants who lived in the front room, around 1950. I'm not sure if Ellen was still alive that that point...

Wow wow wow!!! Thank you so much!! That is, indeed, my father in law's family!! My father in law had a difficult childhood, and lost touch with all his siblings except Sid, so we don't know much about them. My husband does remember once being taken to visit Clara. We had no idea that...

My mom used to tell me that as a teenager, she and her girl friends would go to the monkey run. In this case, she was referring to the area of the A45 Coventry Road which ran alongside Small Heath Park. She said that girls would walk up and down one side of the road, and boys would walk up and...

Brains Faggots used to be very popular and you can still get them from freezer shops. They're like meatballs but contain also, offal. They are traditionally from the blackcountry [Dudley / Wolverhampton way] and are usually served with mushy peas and thick gravy. They are very tasty!

My father in law, Ernest Cadman, born Walsall 1914, had a brother Arthur, who went to Canada. We dont' know any more than that, though. We think another brother went to St Johannesburg, South Africa.

My sister in law was born Susan Cadman - in the 50s, but lived considerably more than 6 days - she's still alive, in fact. Born and raised in Erdington, Birmingham. Mothers maiden name was Spiers.

I grew up in the road alongside the Wagon lane park, [Lyndon playing fields] right next to the old hospital buildings. They were there in 1966, and were still there when I left home in 1974. However, they were no longer used as a hospital, though it was common knowledge at the time that it...

I have had lots of people ask me if we were all in fancy dress on this photo. No! This is how we dressed back then! LOL! [the clothes look pretty normal to me]. I love this photo - brings back so many happy memories.

Staff photo. La Dolce Vita. Approx 1974