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Something along similar lines. I remember hearing this song played regularly in The Tavern in the Town when I first moved to Tamworth. It still brings tears to my eyes when I hear it now. 'Green Fields of France' Well how do you do Private William McBride, Do you mind if I sit here down...

Ellesmere Road is just a few streets down from where I was born- Cranby Street. Don’t suppose you have a piccy of that do you?

I don't suppose you could name anybody on the picture? It's a bit before my time, but they might well have stayed in the area and I may have known them as adults.

Yes, I remember the 2 days being paid at unemployment rates but I don’t remember actually signing on for it. But that could be my failing memory. For all the faults, they were my glory days- young, reasonably well paid and on the town every night! I was earning less when I moved to Tamworth in...

Very enlightening, Len. Not just the refreshing of my memory but the timbre of the excellent essays you pointed me to. I now remember, (I worked at AMAC in Wood Lane) the struggles that were happening. I also remember our union, after several years of low pay rises in the 2-3% region refusing...

I remember the three day week in the early 70’s. I was still at school and we loved it. My dad used to give me a hurricane lamp to go out with! I left school in ’74 after doing an extra year, but remember a three day week later in the 70’s under Jim Callaghan. Anybody remember that? I was a...

Sorry, I don't doubt you word, mate. I meant that it looks quite pleasant compared to my memories!

Yes, Brenda, I’ve often been described as an ‘021’er’. Can’t say it now, though, can they? The expression seems to have dropped out of favour since the extra ‘1’ was put in. ‘’0121’er’ doesn’t have the same ring, does it? Brummies rule again!!

Arley-Barley: used to suspend a game- maybe tig or kiss-chase or ‘feet off ground’- remember that one?- while we discussed the rules or similar. Ackey 1-2-3 was used, as I remember when we had an ‘ackey post’ in hide and seek. Where you had to hide, and if you could get to the ‘ackey’ post...

As I remember, in the 60’s we called it ‘Pimply Hill’ named because of the stones that protruded from the ground. I have a picture of it in my mind, but that picture does not resemble any of the pics posted here. I’m sure the problem is with my mind, not your pics! It used to be pretty much a...

That’s never the Nechells Park Tavern? Just over Cuckoo Bridge off Lichfield Road? My mind must be playing tricks. I went there many a time. And the Reservoir. Maybe I’m getting old, but I seem to remember the surroundings (in the 70’s) being much more dingy and oppressive, and the pub much...

I remember The Norton very well- as Frothy knows! Bloody good pub and Horace (Stokes) must have been the best landlord ever. Well, except for the bloke in Tamworth (I won’t mention his name in case he is running a pub somewhere else now) who let us drink till 5 in the morning! Anybody have...

Lovely sentiment on the post card. Just shows ya. Brum ain't that bad. Accent an' awl!

I well remember the Art Gallery and Museum from my youth. In the 70’s, when pubs shut at 2 o’clock on a Sunday, with nothing better to do while waiting for the pubs to reopen at 7, I often, with a pal or two, used to go to the art gallery. I always found the place fascinating. I live in Tamworth...

'ello, Frothy. Yep. Sad sight. Most of the town is now closing, but the precinct you mention is going to be demolished and a new shopping centre built. They'd have done better to leave the town alone with all its lovely medieval buildings. You only have to go seven or eight miles to Lichfield to...

'Ello, mate. Just in the interests of accuracy (Ex-Brummie living in Tamworth) The Peel Arms is now Wilkinsons in Market Street- the next one down. Easy mistake to make if you don't live or visit here often. King Street, the walk through from Wilkinson's to Co-Op in Church Street had an original...

Excellent, Bren. The sentiments expressed in the poem are so real. Those, many of whom were afraid but fought anyway, are all so modest about their sacrifices. We must never forget.

When my dad was buried in Witton Cemetery in 1992, representatives of the Ex-Servicemen’s Association attended. They were not expected. They played the last post and recited the poem quoted. I was, not normally being a sentimentalist, quite moved by the whole procedure. My dad was an...

To those who sacrificed their all, their future, their humanity, so that we would not have to. For those who knew fear, but sought victory for our sakes regardless. To those left behind, whose loss is unimaginable and to those yet to make the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf I offer you in...

For information- The George Cross is the civilian counterpart of the Victoria Cross and the highest gallantry award for civilians as well as for military personnel in actions which are not in the face of the enemy or for which purely military honours would not normally be granted. The...