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Hi Radiorails. Thanks for your help.

Hi to you all. Thanks for the photo and the information. My sister was born in 1947 and I came along in 1952. We lived in Skinner Lane and I was christened in St Martins. In the photo on the right there is a building with two columns at the entrance. Is this the old fish market? I remember going...

Great photo. The lad front row left- is that Peter Crouch's dad?

I played for Raddlebarn Road Primary. Normally, only boys in the top year could only play in the team. The highlight was when at the end of the season the team would go to Wembley to watch the schoolboy international. I'll never forget the day out, leaving from Snow Hill station on a train...

Whenever we looked miserable my mum would say "You've got a face as long as Livery Street." Does anyone use that expression any more?

I loved going to Lewis's in the late fifties and early sixties when I was a kid because it had a toy department. I used to have to trail after my mum buying dress patterns and material first but it was worth the wait. Do you remember how they used to measure out the material and cut it? That...

Well of course I did!

Thanks for the information Rosie. I shall look it up. I just remember queueing up for what seemed like hours (perhaps it was), then the little grotto with the marionettes, then Uncle Holly, who I think gave us a badge, then Father Christmas, the the distribution of the present, blue tissue paper...

You're right about the Kali. I remember you used to lick your finger, dip it in the powder then suck your finger. At the end of the process you finished up with a yellow finger.

That's a great story TQ!. I have so many memories of trips to the town centre in the fifties and early sixties with my parents, but one memory that always sticks in my mind is clutching my Mum's hand as we made our way down Corporation St on a dark autumn afternoon and hearing the sound of...

What a fantastic video. Thanks for that

We used to call them cobs too. And as kids we used to call sherbet kali. When anyone was drunk my dad would say "He's Kalied."

I remember now that the Evans and Kitchen Garage near Haunch Lane was Evans and Kitchen Warstock. By a weird coincidence, in the town centre there were three car dealers sharing a name:- RJ Evans (of Evans and Kitchen ) PJ Evans on Bristol Street and H J Evans on the corner of Bristol Street and...

Evans and Kitchen was founded by two partners, RJ Evans and a Mr Kitchen whose initials I don't know. When I worked there, RJ (as the was called) was still there as as the senior partner with Peter Kitchen (son of the founder) as the junior partner. I remember Peter Kitchen had a car with an...

My school Kings Norton Grammar won the Villa cup in I think 1968. I remember going to the ground for the match. We'd won the Birmingham City cup the season before. I think with Handsworth Grammar, we were the only Grammar school in Birmingham to play football rather than rugby. That's the reason...

My mum always used to say "give us yer donny" when we had to wash our hands. I think it's almost certainly from the French word "donner" - "to give." My dad always called a funnel a tundish, an off-licence was an outdoor, we used to eat pikelets, not crumpets, and it was a piece, not a sandwich...

I've just come across this thread having recently joined the history forum. When I was about 16, I was thrown out of The Stone in Northfield by Al Jackson for being under age, so I think I'm right in saying that he was managing the pub then. As a boy I'd bought "Tell me When," so I felt a little...

Hi Brummy Babby. I don't know if you're still interested in any information on RJ Evans and Kitchen. I've just joined the Birmingham History website and noticed that you'd asked for details about the company. My dad worked for Evans and Kitchen for many years after the war, right up to its sale...

Thank you so much for your replies and the pictures. I could go on for hours about the times I spent in Hurst street and the surrounding area as a kid, including endless trips to The Hippodrome to see the variety shows and the pantomimes. I think my sister and I were taken to the theatre because...