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Re: Walk Of Stars Brum Thanks Maggie! I think that Julie deserves her place on the walk. Graham.

I'll 2nd that!

Trev with 6 of us (mom & 5 kids) we must have tried everything, even black treacle! For a 'tea belly' like me that was really UGH!!!

That would be nice David, Dave Thomas I remember very well, Graham.

Nice one John; and yes poppies still grow here in Flanders fields, Graham.:peace:

Class photo from David Rock at Clifton Road school circa 1955. I'm the big fella on the right at the back, David is at the front of the class. Graham.

John, wrong or not if I'm going to be poisoned I prefer not to be over-charged for the privilege. There are people that live to be a hundred without ever eating fruit or veg. In my younger days I never was a lover of fruit. Here we have a lot of fruit trees growing in the wild thus never been...

I remember the unjustified beatings and the very thick teachers that couldn't even give us English or Maths lessons; they had to bring in outsiders to teach us simple maths!

I'm very wary of organic foods as I know quite a few farmers and they have told me some horror stories! From my own experience I know that if you don't use pesticide you won't get a crop that's worth 5p and quite often no crop at all because the grubs have eaten it all! I never give a penny out...

Ok Lyn though it will be about 4 pages. Fred, yes and they are really working, not just for the show of it. Thanks to you too Derek. Graham.

Today I had a visit from author & journalist, Chris Sidwells, he flew over for the day to photograph and interview me for 'Cycling Weekly'. It nearly blew him away to see my local farmer working his field with shire horses and he got some good shots of me on my bike riding past them. The farmer...

Bernie I only named Jasper as an illustration but a dialect or an accent can both change how a word sounds. And the other two you mention I've never eard of; I left Brum and England 42 years ago! As Jasper would say "gora goe now" and that is dialect ain it?

Mike if Howard Vyse was the owner of the ground in that area then it seems that you have solved the question why the street bears the name Vyse. As far as pronunciations of any word there will always be a regional or dialect influence. Here in Flanders every village or town has its own...

I think that should read my last post again with more care. I said that the street name was Viséstraat, with an accent on the é so an English speaking person would attempt to say viss-ee and not vize. You mentioned that there are surnames with Vyse, yes but those surnames are all of old French...

I believe that the foul smelling glue was made from bones and was widely used especially in the furniture industry. It has long been replaced as this glue simply dissolved when it came into contact with damp or water. My mom used to use something similar to 'size' (making the plaster less...

Bernard, as I have pointed out, #5, this is from the French for screw 'vis' and is pronounced 'vize'. There is in the jewellery quarter of Antwerp a Viséstraat...

The name Vyse has most probably foreign origins as 'Vis' (pronounced vize) is French for 'screw' and here in bi-lingual (French/Flemish) Flemish part of Belgium we all use the French name 'vijse' (pronounced vize and the modern spelling is vyse) when we are talking about a screw; even though the...

Hi Paul, I'm glad that the photo brings back memories of sweet rationing, what a big deal that was in 1953 for the British public and economy! We (Britain) were sending the Germans $1 000 000 a day in goods leaving us kids with one ration bon per week for 1/4 onz of sweets, that is if we could...

Astonian, Thanks for the reply the little girl, in my fancy dress photo, is covered in sweets as they had just then been taken off the ration. The little boy thinks that they are real sweets and he's trying to pick them off her dress! I've heard that before about that smell of death at...

Astonian, thanks for that bit of info on 77 Dudley Road. I was born there in 1944 and in 1953 I won our coronation street party fancy dress wearing N° 77 and it's been my lucky number ever since that day! Graham.