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Typical A Wak? Only the Blues won! Somethings never change do they?

I wonder what William Shakespeare thought of Butter? Henry 1V, Part, Scene 11, Act 4: Carrier: “As fat as Butter.” But What did the Bard think of Echo margarine? Macbeth V, 3 "I would applaud thee to the very echo."

Among the vegetable oils used for food are those extracted from safflower seed, cottonseed and olives. Safflower oil is rated as containing the most linoleic acid, which is thought to work in decreasing cholesterol in the blood. Most of the cottonseed oil produced in the United States finds its...

Damson Lane?

I’m reading Michael Wood’s In Search of Shakespeare. In chapter one entitled: Roots, he makes the following comment. Quote: “His linguistic roots are here too – not in the more socially acceptable speech of London or the court. Shakespeare spoke with a Warwickshire accent like Brummie today...

Is it the Hurst street one, near the old Government Bookshop what used to be?

Ask Alf if you want, he'll confirm it, he was there!

Its the straight up truth Stitcher...Spearmint did win the Derby in 1906!

I reckon that 1920 picture is nearer 1910..Infact it was taken in 1905. Look closely at the horse in the left foreground...well that's Spearmint who went on to win the Epsom Derby the following year...

Great photo Stitcher...Left hand-side going up the Cov from the bottom...opposite was the Old Lodge Pub...Saturday morning after the matinee' in the Kingston, we'd belt down the hill on the grass you can see; either as Hopalong Cassidy, Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless, The Bowrie Boys or any...

I've tried to sharpen up the image a little. It may help someone to identify the content history.

Wak, Interesting that; the teams from 100 years ago. The Villa Goalie: Skiller...Skiller of the Villa, that's got a ring to it. Bache and Eyre sounds like a pair of grave robbers! Look at the Blues team, one called King and another named Beer, sounds class to me. But Pompey 5 Blues 2...you...

Two cricket pictures from the 1840's, set in Great Barr, Staffordshire.

When my mother got married in the 1930's, she went to Woolworth on the Coventry Road in Small heath and bought a small saucepan for 6d. We've still got it!

Sad to see the demise of Woolies. Do you know when I think it began? A long time ago really: When they ripped out the wooden floorboards.

Baron that photo dated 1008, I didn't know they had cameras then..nor bus stops come to think of it. Ain't history amazing! The things yer learn...

Burne-Jones

Have a look at Wikipedia: Coats of Arms of Birmingham.

too busy not bust

Seriously I think its Washington Irving. I never really saw the face of the clippy on the 28 bus, I was too bust trying to jump off without paying!