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Thanks morturn You say your mom started work there when she was 14, would that have been a Saturday job or full time

Haha that's so true about the reddingtons label, I've got a couple of old hawkwind and tangerine dream albums I picked up from there years ago and they still have the label on, I reckon they'd been on that long they had fused to the album cover :):)

Those are great Wam, I would love to see more if you have them. I bet there's not many of these around anymore, it's one thing you wouldn't think of keeping. Some years back I had 3 year's of the music paper "sounds" I think from 1980 to 83, I gave them away and have regreted it ever since, I...

Love these forties events, went to the one at Arley station a couple of years ago and it was a great day, thanks for the photos there awesome

My aunt worked in woollies in Birmingham, she worked on the poster counter in the early seventies These pics are woollies in the fifties, the first ones a jewellery counter Alberta

Amazing pictures yet again

I can imagine the "Neptune" lounge in the sixties, cocktails, champagne, ladies walking around with beehive hair do's and very long cigarette holders :)

I woke up one morning with a tooth abscess, I was probably no older than 10 I reckon and that experience you've described there was exactly what happened to me, been forced back into the chair and the smell of that rubber Mask!!! I was already in pain with my face been twice the size and having...

haha shrewd thinking that :) so what year would this have been and where

A friend of mine done as most of us done at the time just walked in and asked for a job but this was at the Clifton cinema on the walsall road, thinking he was onto a winner at 13 years old and been able to see all the movies for free he was delighted, so after 4 days of only handing out...

What's more impressive he was the treasurer at 13 :) :)

Happy days indeed Viv, that feeling of been given a responsibility and getting paid for it at that age was great, then going to buy something with your own money without having to ask your parents for it was special. At that age we all wanted to be grown up, now we're all grown up we want to be...

Every kids dream job I reckon that toy shop would have been

Imagine doing that nowdays with all this health and safety business :(

( sorry Lyn put this reply on one of your other posts by mistake) it was at the bottom of perrywood road Lyn, where perrywood road is split by booths farm road, there was a little row of shops there on the corner, it was between the chip shop and the wool shop. It was owned by Mr and Mrs Pitt...

it was at the bottom of perrywood road Lyn, where perrywood road is split by booths farm road, there was a little row of shops there on the corner, it was between the chip shop and the wool shop. It was owned by Mr and Mrs Pitt, they opened another shop opposite the old horns pub on beacon...

They don't even put the nut on a walnut whip anymore absolute sacrilege

That was 1976 Lyn, I felt l'd won the pools when I had my first pay packet :) mind you it was hard work though, I eventually ended up doing 3 days a week after school aswel but it really gave me a sense of purpose plus all the fruit and veg I could eat :)

Going back to our youth and school days what was your first Saturday job whilst growing up in our great city, I was 12 years old and got my first Saturday job working at Pomona fruits in Great Barr, it was hard work and a very early start but got paid well, I got 6 pounds which was 3 times the...