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Raggy Allen...Brown suit, brown shoes, brown tie, brown belt...Didn't know Nogger Evans. Knew PT Evans as Killer Evans. What did you get as choir boy eh 2/6d for weddings?...Miss Beal, was she the one with the tuning fork?

Bill, 'superior knowledge' I went to Oakley too. Must have been a good school.

I've played footie too at the Oaklands. Henry Road junior school playing fields and Belchers Lane the seniors.

Moi! Mean the Villa players. Oh Jean, how could you think that of me? Now would I???

No offence intended Jean. Only it was you who put the idea in my mind...

Thanks Alf, Actually I'm quite widely read. It's just that Aston and Fairies seemed quite a logical connection to me...

Black Bob? Wasn't he in the Beano or was it the Dandy? Doyle 999

I believe he did Jean.

Hi oldMohawk, I can remember being handed down overhead, but for me it was at St Andrews...What joy!

Villa oldest first-team player: Ernie "Mush" Callaghan, 39 years 257 days v. Grimsby Town, 12 April 1947

Saturday 12th April 1947 Villa 3 v Grimbsy 3

:) This time....

Try again...if no photo, having difficulty uploading. :(

No pictures of the houses, but this is the top end of Arthur Street and some of the kids

The Yardbirds Manfred Mann The Seekers The Nashville Teens Keith Barron and the Cheetahs There are others but I was there in the 60's and I don't remember it...Oh! Yeh of course, The Beatles at the Odeon. I saw some some bands too when they made the film Privilege at the Blues ground. Bob...

Yep, that's Miles Street...half-way down was the Plume of Feathers. Don't suppose anyone has a photo?

Mike...Keep Right On!

Where Jean? Lewis's

Talking about being thrown out, I got chucked out of Lewis’s in the 50s for jeering at the man selling an apple de-corer. He said “Ladies, they cost just half a crown, and if you were to go to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Bingley Hall today, you would be charged 2/11d.” Whereupon I shouted “Big...

I was in the Alhambra Cinema on Friday, November 22, 1963. A date indelibly fixed in my Memory. Watching the film Heavens Above, starring Peter Sellers and directed by the Boulting Brothers. A note was etched on the Screen that read: President Kennedy has been shot....and later a further...