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she was right!!!!!!!!:D

I went to Horne's in New street(I won a few pound on the dogs!) to be measured for a suit, thought I was the business,!!!!!!, until the gentleman asked me "and which side dose sir dress?"??? he quickly realized that I had no idea of what he meant and was not used to shopping at posh shops,so...

thanks for the info Colin, only the ones I knew on the Chester road, (front of Pype Hayes park) looked to be made from asbestos. just goes to show how little I know:redface:

the peg rug brings back happy memories ofsitting by the fire with mom and cutting up bits of material for the rug. but how they collected the dust!!!!!!!

:rolleyes: I can eat a biscuit and not leave a crumb. I can find my way round Spaghetti junction in Brum. I know a girl called Crystal but that's another tale;) and if I ever tell I would surely end in jail

where the prefabs made from preformed asbestos sheets???

Kandor,I could not have but your sentiments any better, that's exactly how I feel when I revist the places were I grew up in Pype Hayes,and my grans in Witton road, my cousins in Loxton street, all gone,all that's left are memories,good and bad. We talk of the good old day's,they always were...

I travelled on the trolley bus from cuckoo bridge to great lister street in1939, was it number43?

Hi. I'm trying to find any relative ,or ayone, who knew of Jones the butchers of Heneage street around the 1920/30s thanks.

Hi, could anyone please help me . I'am trying to find any relatives of the Jones family who owned a butchers shop in Heneage street, in the 1920's. any photos of the shop would be a bonus. I've hit a brick wall on this one,??? especially (John Adam) Jones the son of the owner John Jones. thanks

Mine never did!!!!!!!!:wink:

Hi Lynda. I knew a Joseph Wort, he lived in Springthorpe road Pype Hayes, that was in the 1940's, He married my wife's sister, then moved to Newtown Row. where a tragedy struck the entire family. regars Peter

Gem Street I did go to gem street school!! there was a boxing club upstairs.

Peter, speaking of sport and perry barr, what about the dog tracks in brum!! Kings Heath, Hall Green and of course Perry Barr.does anyone remember any greyhounds names from 1940's or later?

the whips 3 ( 3x4p doubles and 4p treble =1shilling and 4p)

Astoian. no that was my Dad's non-de -plume he used on his betting slips(hence the sporting buff) he worked all his life for the co-op. as children my brother and me used to sit by the fire and roll up bits of news paper and smoke them like woodbine's "STOP PLAYING WITH THE FIRE"!!!!

To "draw" our fire up we used the sporting buff, then all sit by the fire , with Mom forever telling us that we would  get chilblains