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That record shop redken, was where I bought my first EP Elvis Volume 2: So Glad, You're Mine - Old Shep - Ready Teddy - Anyplace Is Paradise. Can't remember if it was 3/9d or 6/9d. Played it to death on my Dansette Record Player (A red and grey un). I can hear my mom now: "Turn that noise down!"

Wasn't Walls best seller: Aston Vanilla with the slogan The Team Everybody licks?

Hi Angela K, Here's the pub on the corner of the Cov and Bordesley Park Road. The Old Lodge, my mom was the bar-maid there for donkey's years.

Here's a few pics, although you may have already seen them. Kingston Park, The Kingston and bus stop. It wasn't the morning World Cup Final day, but the evening before that Reg proudly showed me his bike. Strange how you mentioning that has brought the memories back.

Hi Redken, You right of course, John Joy, so I must have been in your house at sometime. What a tragedy when Reggie was killed. We were close since we had both stopped on at school an extra year. On the morning of his bike crash, I was kicking a ball about in Beamish Road and Reg came along on...

Great to see those pics. I used to play footie with Billy Costello in Kingston Park, and my school mate Reggie Thomas lived on Mount Pleasant and another lad I knew there was Johnnie Joyce. I can remember belting down the slope on sledges at the back of the houses toward those that were the...

I know let's call it the Market Station Hotel or the Station Market Hotel or to be really posh Le Gare Marche Auberge en Le Rep Ancient

I can remember standing at the bus stop, I think perhaps in the late 60's and Tommy Docherty the then Villa manager came out of the Station Bar, crossed the road and said to me, 'are you going to the match this afternoon?' to which I replied 'not to watch your lot I'm not.' I've been trying to...

This is the place I always knew as the Station. There is another pub in the same street about 80 yards to the right as you look at this pic.

Sure do. It was in believe it or not, wait for it..............Station Street

I think the statue was Thomas Attwood

I don't think Victoria was square. I think she was quite with it...

Could it have been the Marquis of Quasimodo ? Cos he rang a bell...:)

That was a re-working of earlier fashion. In the 20's collar-pins were in use and could well have pre-dated then. So you never know, garters could make a come-back.

No need for the garters anymore, elasticated socks. Yes cufflinks and arm bands, unless of course your shirts are bespoke and tailored to the correct arm length. Collar studs not generally, unless making a fashion staement. Tiepins less so. Structured suits from Savile Row, more relaxed from...

In 1890 Mr Foster patented table tennis which everyone knows is really PING PONG. Fact 1 Mr Foster is presently the Blues gaolie. Fact 2 So there is a link between Ping Pong and the Blues keeper.

I think you'll find that was his brother Ping Pong. King Kong was definately at Witton. His scientific name was: Megaprimatus Villatus Kong

Didn't he sign for the Villa?

Back in the late 30's or early 40's my mom and her sister had been out for the evening and travelled on the number 11 route. When they got to their bus-stop on the way home, my aunt had fallen asleep. Rather than wake her up, mom paid the conductor to take her round again. Although she herself...

You were obviously there before me Bill. The school camp in my day was on Kinver Edge...A place near Redhouse Farm if I remember right. Miss Turner was head over the gals.