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can someone tell me where I would have caught, the Sutton Coldfield, train from to get to the park!! I seem to think it was New Street , but unsure many thanks!!

Hagley Road now a duel carriage way , Blimey!!

I was there a few years before you, when Mother Mary Martina was HM, and Father O'Rielly was priest, it was very tough, though of course in the 50's there was not a word , called abuse, unheard of in those days when children were disciplined from birth really, thought nothing of it .!!

goes to show how the memory fails with age !!

62, going a bit off thread here Gerry, great to have talked to you!!

I did a stint at the AADW, when Williamson was depot Sart Major

Are next door neighbour, had a "James Captain" I seem to remember, back in early 60's , I used to see it parked outside his house, I think A red and crome tank, lots of crome everywhere, looked really fast to a young lad!!

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No one who served in the 60's would, not know those names, "Black Alec" was a legend, I started in boy service with another icon, "Perry Mason", and of course "John Blood, Joe Grindley"

I was a Coldstreamer Gerry!!

When a "Sprog", at Pirbright, my "Gold Bloke", made me get my hair cut 3 times in a morning, , never forgot it !!

I remember that saying Gerry, we had a grove near us in Hasbury Road where a infamous family lived , and their boys would always shout that when calling for my friends!!

Another saying dad said when frustrated about something was a bit odd, he would say, "I'll go to the foot of our stairs, and pick roses"? used to make me laugh thou!!

I missed out a lace where we lived when first born with my Nan and Aunt and uncle, and Pam and Lyn, my cousins for a short while in 47, 12a Vicarage Road Handsworth, Birmingham

I must say as a kid of 13, 14 I loved Buddy Holly, spent a fortune at the Juke box , with "Peggy Sue, and Slippin and a slidin"!!!

Yes , if I remember rightly after some 60 odd years, there was a line of bus stops that ran from nearly the top of Hill Street Viv.

Such an iconic building, which seemed to always have been with me as a child, and youth, I remember in the late 50's waiting across the road for my bus, in the evening, and watching the gas lamps being lit, by a chap with a little A frame ladder, always looked so imposing!!

I remember going there and having gas Viv , I would have been about 8 yrs old, very Victorian I remember !!

Hi Lynn, back in the 50's and 60;s I heard the word "Wench", a lo, mainly in the Black Country!!

Yes Lynn all old Birmingham, my dad also said,as well as livery street, "Er, looks like she lost sixpence, and found a penny ".