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Thank you Anthea, It was "andy carrier" that she used to shout out. dont know where my "carrier bags" came from.

A favourite memory I have of Birmingham, When I went with mother as a child, to the market. At the side of the steps leading up to the Fish market, there was always a little old lady there selling paper carrier bags, I can still hear her today shouting "carrier bags".

Hi, If you lived in the area of Sutton Coldfield, entrance to the park was free, but we who lived in Birmingham had to pay an entrance fee, this if I remember correctly was 3d for adults and 1d for children, and they used to sell a "must have" map of of the park, at the gatehouses too. I...

Hi Nursesue, The man made pathway you mention would be the one that goes from Pinfold Lane, about opposite where the caravan park is now, up past the old quarry, and out onto Beacon Road opposite the road that takes you up onto Barr Beacon.

Hi, Great pictures, Our friends had one of these Heinkels, unlike the Isetta, the Heinkel had a bit of a foot well behind the front seats and I remember going out Ten Pin Bowling with them, perched on the top of the shelf at the back, can you imagine 4 people in an Heinkel.

More on my Isetta, I did tend to feel vunerable in it when amongst large lorrys, because they could not see my little car. It was so light as well, I could take hold of a bumper rail, they were on each side to protect the front opening door, and lift the car up to inspect the underside. It...

Yes, Those huts were in great demand before the motor car became more available, I believe it was difficult sometimes to find an empty one, could'nt share could they !

It was 1960 that I bought a BMW Isetta, super little car, Door opened to the front and left hand drive, beauty was, by blanking off the reverse gear, you could drive these cars on a motor cycle licence, This is how I started, and after 9 months driving experience, I passed my full car driving...

When my Dad bought a new bike, a BSA 250 C15 he left his old BSA Bantam 125 in the shed, that, I rebuilt and on my 16th birthday obtained my provisional licence. I learned to ride on that bike then, on passing my test I bought myself a second hand BSA 250 C12, great old bike, Happy days.

Barr Beacon used to be virtually on my doorstep when I was young, used to walk up there frequently, In those days the hill was dotted with small wooden huts amongst the gorse bushes, very popular with courting couples, the huts that is. There used to be more trees on the top than now, the Dome...

I think I got Foster/Forster wrong, He was our form master at Birchfield Road School. I think Iv'e got it right this time

Re: Birchfield Secondry Modern School I was at Birchfield Road School 1954-1956 from where I passed the 13+ to go Handsworth Technical School. I remember how some lads managed to get down onto the railway track (how?) which ran alongside of the school and put pennies on the track. those...

My Dad worked at a Pen factory in Birmingham, it was called "Perry Pens" and was situated off Lancaster street, I cannot remember the name of the street, Perry Pens was sold out to British Pens in 1961

Great report, I'm sure I have mine somewhere, A thorough search is required.

Thanks Bernie for those names, they do ring bells, my two mates were John Dudard and Peter Derbyshire, they have better memories than I have these days, As far as I can remember we had a Mr Foster for english, or it may have been Forster. Does anyone remember the ceiling in the history class...

As far as I can remember, it was Mr Woolly, who took us for woodwork. with another teacher, his name I cannot remember but we called him "The Martian"

Hi, I started work at Turner Bros, straight from school, in 1958. I was put into "K" Department, which was opposite the main building along a little bit. That department had recently moved from Weaman Street Under the watchful eye of "Sandy Palmer", anyone remember him?, I began my career in...

This is the Anvil and its aluminium casting, its not faired to badly over the last 50 yrs. I was at HTS 1956 -1958, this must have been in the final year, I was in class 4A1 when I made this.

Hi Rupert, The woodworking shop takes me back, I still have my anvil, which I I made in the woodworking shop which we then cast in aluminium.