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  1. maggs

    Items that have faded away

    Yes Maria, I do remember Indian brandy. We were all young girls learning our trade in office work, and the older lady in the office (all of 23, but seemed ancient to us) always kept a bottle of this in her desk, so if any of us complained of stomach pains, out came the Indian brandy, and it...
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    Ryland Street

    Lovely pic Stars, as usual. I still have a mini identical to the one in the pic, and the same colour too 'Snowberry'.
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Hello Nico, Thank you for thinking of me (and Carolina). I love all the Joyce Grenfell renditions. Going back to school for a moment, did any of you do square dancing, or Scottish dancing. We seemed to do both all through school. I think someone may have mentioned the song 'The Minstral Boy'...
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    Springhill Ice rink Summerhill Road

    Thank you Keith, and the same to you.
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Thank you Nico, it would seem that both lines were used in that song then. The song My lovely day, is that 'This is my lovely day' this is the day I shall remember the day I'm dying'. Gosh, we don't here these songs anymore do we?
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    Harborne

    Jennyann, it was quite amazing about my knitting, because in my 30's I became a professional knitter, and make a lot of things to order for a shop. I never thought about the possessions of the teachers being locked away whilst the school girls were in the house cleaning, but thinking about it...
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    Things We Sent Off For

    I have quite a few Golliwogs, and they are still sold around this area too. Can't be doing with all this PC nonsense. My son had one when he was a little boy, in the 1960's. it's also a bit ragged now, but he still keeps it. I am still sending for things, sent for an Elizabeth Arden lipstick...
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    Harborne

    Thank you very much Jennyann. As a friend had suggested Vivian Rd, then I think this must have been the one. Oh yes, we used to have fun too, and I didn't really mind going there at all. Living in a back to back house as a child, it was nice to see how 'the other half' lived, and to imagine that...
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    Ryland Street

    I did indeed live in that area for a while Lyn, and I seem to remember a pub called 'The Horse Falls'. I often thought that was in Ryland St.
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    Harborne

    When I was in secondary school, I used to go to a house in Harborne to do 'housewifery'. Teachers used to board at this house, and we used to have to clean and lay the fires etc. Does anyone else remember doing this, and if so, where was the house?
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    Lodge Road Hockley and (the Flat)

    Stars. you really are a star with these great pics you are putting onto the Forum. I remember this cafe and milk bar so well, and used to go down there on a Saturday for tea and toast.
  12. maggs

    horse troughs. victorian post boxs ,old gents loos

    Sorry Rupert, for bringing back a horrible memory, but I suppose these places didn't have any flushing system did they?
  13. maggs

    Ryland Street

    Thank you Lyn, like your's too, what a little sweetie. In fact, it was only when I saw your's that I realized it was time to change mine. Love those pics of Ryland St, this was not too far from where I lived in Browning St at one time.
  14. maggs

    Ryland Street

    They are super pics Lyn, as you say. I tell you what though, I bet that meat tasted a lot better than meat does today, even from todays butchers shops, let alone supermarkets. The meat we get today is enough to make us all turn vegetarian.
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Nico, I think it was Bella Margarita, picking grapes with me wasn't it? Perhaps I am wrong on this one.
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Oh David, I thought I was the only person in the world who thought it was ''Good King Wensles last looked out'. I had really forgotten about it until you reminded me. We had a Scottish music teacher, and she used to make us sing the carol 'In the bleak mid winter', which was my all time...
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    Springhill Ice rink Summerhill Road

    What lovely pics and memories. I do wish I had been old enough and well off enough to have a decent camera, so I could have captured some of the great times I had at that rink. Nice to see Terry Smith appearing again, he was a good friend of mine. Does anyone remember a young man who used to go...
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    Icknield Street

    Lyn, on pic #291, the shop on the corner where the car is, on the left, used to be a barber shop, and my dad always had his hair cut there. The newsagent on the left, was Howards.
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    Icknield Street

    Oh that made me smile Lyn, I shall remember that in future. I could say something cheeky here, but I won't in case I get banned. Did we have the stalagmites as well under the bridge? I bet with all the walking that went on under there, they wouldn't have survived. I really did hate those things...
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    horse troughs. victorian post boxs ,old gents loos

    Stars, I remember these well, the one on Vincent St is so familiar. They always smelled awful to me when I walked by.
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