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  1. Lumpammer

    Help With Street Address

    My mothers maiden names was Hull, Alice Elizabeth, but they lived in Talfourd Street, Small Heath, near to Victoria Street.
  2. Lumpammer

    Paradise development 2018

    Thanks, I didn't see it down there.
  3. Lumpammer

    Paradise development 2018

    Is there any chance of a "Back to top of page" button?
  4. Lumpammer

    Graham Squiers

    I have one of his book(let)s up in my loft since 1985. It is called "Aerbut and Gaertie in War Time". It contains six dialect monologues, but I do not know anything about the author.Here, hopefully is a photo of the cover.
  5. Lumpammer

    Parkinson Stoves & Blowlamps, Stetchford.

    There are few pubs "at the top of the hill" around there. At the top of of the Audley Road hill was The Glebe. At the top of Stechford Road is The Fox And Goose. At the top of Yardley Fields Road is the Yardley Arm and over the hill of Flaxley Road is The Iron Horse, I can't figure out why there...
  6. Lumpammer

    Sweets We Used To Have

    These are not sweets but the sweet shops used to sell Hot Salted Peanuts from a machine.
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    Sweets We Used To Have

    I used to like the ones with a liquorice straw.
  8. Lumpammer

    Sweets We Used To Have

    Re: post 189, yes they were a laxative, better than Syrup of Figs!!
  9. Lumpammer

    Sweets We Used To Have

    We used to buy Liquorice Imps. They were small hard squares of liquorice, about 3mm square. Are they still available?
  10. Lumpammer

    Aston Villa Match Report

    Which match do you want the report for? They only played Blackpool and Chelsea at home that month.
  11. Lumpammer

    Aston Villa Match Report

    Try looking at this site https://www.11v11.com/teams/aston-villa/tab/matches/season/1958/
  12. Lumpammer

    Phyllis Nicklin's Working Life

    I had this trouble some time back. I am now using Mercury browser - no more problems.
  13. Lumpammer

    Burford Photo Albumn

    Yeh, Ipress it every time, thenafter I've read acouple of posts I see I am logged out or I get a message "You need to be logged in to see this photograph.
  14. Lumpammer

    Burford Photo Albumn

    Can anyone out there tell me why I keep getting logged out? I have been browsing BHF for about 10 minutes and have had to login 3 times.
  15. Lumpammer

    The Valley pub, Billesley

    I can remember having a pint outside the Valley and watching a Spitfire, a Lancaster, a Vulcan and the Red Arrows flying over. It was in 1973. What a fantastic couple of down the pub!
  16. Lumpammer

    Various street pics

    This looks like the Olton Tavern. It is up the hill and over the island just past Solihull Ice Rink I think it used to be called the Olton Hall.
  17. Lumpammer

    Bread Vehicles

    Lukers owned the bakery and an off-licence which were separated by an entry. During the early '60s, I used to work at Lukers on Saturdays, delivering the bread and booze around Moseley and Kings Heath. They also used to cure their own ham which was to die for, especially when served on a Lukers...
  18. Lumpammer

    Tubes Limited

    Thanks Astonian, but I just wanted to see the pictures as the only Tubes I know was Tubes Industries at Bromford. I thought if I saw them it might trigger something. TI has long since gone. It brings back memories of train spotting at Bromford Bridge in the early 60's. I think the race course...
  19. Lumpammer

    Tubes Limited

    Thanks for that.
  20. Lumpammer

    Tubes Limited

    I would like to see all these photos that have been posted, but I can't see anything to click on. There are no thumnails or links. Pleae, somebody, HELP
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