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Mine was Bambi,at the cinema on the Coventry Rd just down from the Swan going towards the airport....please can someone tell me what the cinema was called? I have never been able to watch it again,and wouldnt let my children see it....all I can remember is crying ang crying....or as someone said...

Hi Gordon, My Mum is a Thursfield,(William and Evelyn Hand) Havent all my info to hand as laid up with a slipped disc. Are your family all Black Country based ?

Sorry should have said..... Thank you

Hardiman....my (I think 2x) gt grand father married Emma

Thanks for the picture of the Palace. I dont suppose you have any of the inside? I remember as a girl (in the early 60's) that in the Bham Mail there would be a list of all the cinemas and what they were showing. There were quite a few in the list as I remember.

Hi Baron, Just browing through an old thread and found this post. I have noticed before that you have 2 of the names in my family history . I would have to get digging to look for a Gordon Thursfield,but if the picture could be re produced I might see a family resemblance. It just came up as a...

You can still get cod liver oil and malt. We do have people that come into our health food shop and order it. I laugh with them and say Mum used to give us it.....thats child abuse !!!!! Yuk !

My Mum has just said that before Grandad took over the pub the previous landlord had hanged himself .Anybody know anything about that story? It was in the early 50's.

Would he have been on the 1881 census? Would they have been able to write? I have seen marriage certificates from my family and the bride and or groom put a X for their signature

Thats all very grim..The story and the setting

Hi Mike,its Watery Lane I am interested in cos of my Grandad having the Coachsmiths Arms. I would love to be able to tell my Mum something about it,when it was built when it was demolished(:() etc. What I am doing is saving the photos on my lap top and when I go down to Bewdley to see her,will...

Thanks...My Mum will be thrilled

Thanks very much for these. I wonder when it was demolished then. Could somebody with a "Kellys" work it out I wonder

As this is an old thread dont know if anyone has mentioned school dinners. Spotted dick was definitely one ( thank heavens the PC brigade got put in their places)The one I really liked....wait for it....battered spam and beetroot! ...yum yum

Oh ok thanks. Anything that might be of or about the area would be interesting. I tried to find a map of it even...no go there either

Dont suppose by any slim chance you have a photo of Coachsmiths Arms Watery Lane Small Heath please?

Great pics...we should never throw anything away! we never know when it might be needed!...and someone will find them interesting. I have been to Family History Fairs,where these type of cards fetch a good price....

Where did people go for their cuppa when that had gone?

Funny to imagine how it was then,where did everybody shop when they had gone?

Crikey...dont remember those! What were they used for weighing? Perhaps I was still half asleep in the morning