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Picture the scene: Monday, wash-day! The kitchen walls distempered and streaming with water, mums got the boiler going, she's scrubbing dads shirts on the washboard. I'm trying to sneak into the pantry before she sees me...too late "I need you, hold this sheet while I run it through the mangle."...

They say that everyone can remember where they were when President Kennedy was assasinated. Mention of these cinemas brings that evening to mind. I was in the Alhambra Picture House watching the film "Heavens Above" starring Peter Sellers. First a note was scratched on the screen..."President...

Hi, Just out of interest, and since I was born in Sheldon - Do you think that rather than being called Sheldonites - that a finer sobriquet is: 'Sheldonians'? or indeed 'Old Sheldonians'

Icarus, I don't think your memory has deceived you, Bordesley Park Road was not, is not sloped...there is a very fine incline as the road runs under the railway bridge, but there is no bridge visible in the photo. The Old Lodge was run by Dan Tremelling. A black and white pub on the corner of...

Hi, There was, probably still is a Nelson Street near The Sandpits. Used to go for 5th year Physics and Chemistry there.

Dwilly, It could well be the same 'Tug', Of course I was only a lad in the 50's but I seem to remember my dad having a pint with Mr Wilson probaly in the Horse and Jockey, The Old Lodge or the Plume of Feathers.

Dwilly, Just out of interest was your wife's grand-father known as "Tug" Wilson?

Is it Craven Cottage or the original ticket office at Villa Park?

I mentioned earlier that I thought the Horse and Jockey was a Davenports' House. I've looked in National Archives for the brewery, found it listed, but can't see the Horse and Jockey among their premises, so perhaps I was wrong - either that, or the beer was stronger than I thought!

Hello Neville, I lived right by the Horse and Jockey - on the corner of Bordesley Park Road and Miles Street, I left in 1969, and it was still open then. Used to have a pint there now and then. From memory - and I could be wrong - it was a Davenports House. The other pub in Miles Street was...

Turkish Delight: Loukoum or rabat loukoum, meaning literally 'rest for the throat'

Hi, I recall it like this: "Barley Up, Barley Up, Bom Bom Bay, If you don't you will not play."

Hello, :) BlueGwen is quite correct. The Beamish Road Maisonettes were built I believe in 1948. We moved in as one the earliest tenants. The rent, I seem to remember my Mom telling me was 17/0d in June 1948. My A-Z clearly shows Beamish Road. See attached on previous post.