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  1. wendylee

    Old style food still going strong

    Ly Lyn, my husband loves that, he calls it cornbeef hash as thats what his mum called it. I dont think its a typical corned beef hash. Wendy
  2. wendylee

    CHRISTMAS 2020

    Edit. Covid vaccine references moved to the Covid Vaccine process thread........... I am inspired by the different ideas you all have to celebrate a "different" Christmas or maybe looking forward to an Easter Christmas. :) So much positivity comes out in your messages here about Christmas...
  3. wendylee

    Covid vaccination process

    Its such good news to hear the vaccine is now being rolled out in the Uk and that you had a good experience about the measures taken to do it so well, Mohawk. Here in Australia we wont get vaccine until around March but we are doing ok after 2 total lockdowns but still have restrictions and will...
  4. wendylee

    Old style food still going strong

    Hi Vivienne, Mmm soft roes on toast, yumm.... but I am with you I have never eaten tripe :rolleyes:
  5. wendylee

    GET WELL SOON RADIORAILS (alan)

    Sorry to hear you have not been well Alan, best wishes for your recovery . Hope you can soon get back on the BHF. Wendy :)
  6. wendylee

    CHRISTMAS 2020

    I had already read your message then I read it out to my husband, by the time i got to the end there were tears running down my cheeks, what a beautiful thing to take time out to do, it has made that persons day . How wonderful for your son deciding to take your grandson next year. Best...
  7. wendylee

    CHRISTMAS 2020

    That sounds like our tree when we were kids, except we sometimes had the candles alight and one year our tree did catch on fire!! It was not a pretty sight! we must have bought a new tree after that but for the life of me I cant remember it! I only remember the one that caught fire it was like...
  8. wendylee

    Black Country Museum

    I can still remember the smell of Coal tar soap, i quite liked it :laughing: my mum always said I was strange kid haha
  9. wendylee

    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    Hi Susie its a while since you posted your message. I trained in 1967 at Telephone House, my maiden name was Hellon. A few names I remember in my group was Joyce Spriggs, Jennie Florence, Sarah Fitzpatrick , Jennie Jones. I remember the same things as you, loved it on the enquiries and 999 calls...
  10. wendylee

    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    Hi David, I worked as a telephonist at Newhall st telephone exchange from 1967 till 1970/71 then transferred to the Sheldon Exchange when it opened as a telephone exchange needing telephonists. I loved my telephonist job :) Wendy
  11. wendylee

    IT'S LYNS (ASTONESS )BIRTHDAY TO DAY FOLKS.

    Happy Birthday Lyn, have a lovely day, Wendy
  12. wendylee

    Sheldon

    Hi Peter, sorry I havnt been to Port Macquarie either . I do know Lyndon road though I worked at the Telephone Echange there for a few years right behind where the old Sheldon cinema was. We used to walk up from Common Lane to the lovely park in Lyndon road as kids, take a sandwich and a...
  13. wendylee

    Sheldon

    Hi "oldbrummie" we are in a small country town called Teesdale in Victoria. Lived in this town for 34 years now, we love it here. Population of around 1500 residents. Wendy :)
  14. wendylee

    Prefabs

    My husband lived in one exactly like that in the 1950's till we got married, they were quite spacious inside. It was in a lovely spot in Bickley Grove , Sheldon it backed onto open ground we used to call The Baggies. During our childhood improvements were made, a kids park and tennis courts , it...
  15. wendylee

    Printer and printing problems

    Grrrr printers, wonderful when they work , "horrid" when they cause problems just when you need to print something!:sob:
  16. wendylee

    Tastes Of The Past

    Hi Lyn, my dad used to tell my sisters and I to drink it as it was good for our skin, I liked it too, but not the "boiled to death" cabbage though haha Wendy
  17. wendylee

    Give us yer donny

    If we were sulking we were told " yer face is as long as Livery St" and yes I remember give us yer donny and all round the wrekin.
  18. wendylee

    Marston Green Hospital

    Oh Lyn i am so sorry, just found the two photos I had found already on page 4 :( but I am still looking online, my son was born there in 1976 and I thought it was a lovely hospital even though it was old. I had my daughter first in Solihull hospital and refused to go back there, my experience at...
  19. wendylee

    Marston Green Hospital

    Hi everyone, I found two more photos on the internet of Marston Green Hospital , am I able to screen shot them and post on here for everyone to enjoy? Wendy
  20. wendylee

    Give us yer donny

    Hi bull ring boy, , Yes we always said "barley" if we needed to stop a game for something, , if you were playing tag or chasey, you couldn't be tagged etc while you were "barley" with your fingers crossed. I lived in sheldon, i think it was a common word for kids to say.
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