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Oh it's easy to be brave when it's over 40 years ago. We were a pretty poor team, but we still enjoyed ourselves playing. I did manage to play for some reasonable teams as well, so my football playing experience wasn't all that bad. Mind you, I reckon some of the modern footballers could do...

What a great web site. I've added it to my favourites and intend having a nostalgia trip as I read through it. Many thanks

I wasn't sure just which section to post this in, so please feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place. We certainly have produced some great singers/bands in Birmingham and the Black Country, but I'd like to put a word in for those who never 'made it' but were still part of a thriving...

I used to play for a team called Shirley Comets, but it should really have been Shirley Comics. However, we did win an award one season, The Sporting Losers Award. We really were that bad. We had one match against the doctors and patients at Monyhull Colony, a mental hospital in Kings...

You're right, it was a 'special place' and we're losing too many of these havens. The main area of the woods and pond was higher than a lower area that we called 'the bogs', a lovely, squelchy area where frogs abounded. An overflow from the pond led down to this area. This was like a concrete...

Thanks for those, Morturn. Yet more ideas. As you say, though, nothing is new. It's like all those games we used to play that are now mass produced with bells and whistles. Who needs all this fancy stuff to play Battleships when all you really need is a couple of pencils and some paper?

That's great, Anne, thanks. That will give me something to start them off with. Does anybody know any other moves, please.

Do any of you remember French skipping? It used to be played by linking knicker elastic together in to a loop. Two children would then stand inside the elastic, with it around the back of their legs. A third child would then perform a series of jumps or challenges into, onto and out of the...

With all these wonderful memories I wonder if there are any of this type of shop left, where you felt the people were your friends and the service really was 'service'. And how fascinating to see the thead from stivesbay, which takes the Woolley's shop back even further. I wonder if other ex...

I've managed to find a solution. I posted the question on the Ancestry.co.uk forum and got the following reply. Create your multi page report Then instead of directly printing it, go to Share and export the MPR as a "one page PDF" Then print from the PDF Up to reasonable limits, PDF doesn't...

Thanks, Shortie. I've tried to find print parameters in the program, but there's nothing, apart from quality of print and whether to print landscape or portrait. The printer works perfectly on all my other programs, including those where I have narrow margins set. It's just Family Tree Maker...

I had Family Tree Maker 2011 for Christmas and am trying to come to terms with it. I've transferred all my data onto it with no trouble. In fact, it was extremely easy. My question concerns the prining of multi-page reports. The single page reports are great, but those that go over several...

What a fascinating recollection, Cadeau. And I've also learnt about linishing from brummie nick. Cheers.

Ah, I understand now, Len. And Moss, your photo shows me exactly what was needed. I've been interested in genealogy for over forty years and, apart from the obvious enjoyment of 'the hunt', this is something else that makes it all so fascinating. You can learn so much and it helps to put...

Many thanks, both of you. So, correct me if Im wrong, dressing, fettling and polishing are the same thing really, and it's the final stage of the brass process.

At one stage, one of my ancestors was shown as a brass founder, but later on his occupation is brass tap dresser. I've tried without success to find what this involved, so has anybody got any idea what it was? Many thanks

Hi Steve Very many thanks, but I was able to go in on Wednesday and get the information I required. Have a good Christmas Dave

Some of you may have seen my brother, Doug Smith, and pupils from Swanswhurst School on Midlands Today last week, talking about the Birmingham Blitz and the on-line data base that the pupils have set up listing those who were killed in the Blitz. They also hope to eventally have a list of those...

Good grief, Sue. We must have had the same great aunts. At my great aunts, Olive and Grace, it was like stepping back in time. They always used to dress in Victorian fashion, had matching high back chairs with side wings, a lovely grandmother clock with the moon and the sun on it and yes, they...

Thanks for the link. And there was me thinking we were the only ones who used that exprsession.