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Graham, Top class. I've just read it through to my wife in the kitchen, preparing lunch. Her family were hop-pickers too. Guess where from...The Black Country - I wonder if they were the gypsies, it wouldn't suprise me. You mentioning the Schoolboard man; he used to put fear in to our hearts...

I didn't play in the league but a few of my friends did...I think they were in a team called SANTANA

I can recall a Lyons Tea Shop, however in my memory it was on the corner of New Street and High Street. In fact both my mom and sister worked there. I seem to recall too that a piano was played there on certain days of the week of course it could be simply my imagination or just a faltering memory.

A couple more photos from York.

I was up at the National Rail Museum in York a couple of weeks ago...Here's The Duchess of Hamilton in her streamlined coat.

Yer dead right Brummie Nick...mind you it's been a long time...when I was there last they still kept a pig in a sty just near the corner of Watery Lane and the Cov...and I ain't been drinking either.

Re pubs on the Cov, you'll need to add The Old Lodge which was on the corner of the Cov and Bordesley Park Road. Then nearer Bordesley Station there were two pubs, I might be wrong but I think - The Lamp and The Dolphin...

Go to the top of this page - see SEARCH: Under thread type in Small Heath, go to the bottom of that page and you will see Small Heath [Postie] click on this, page 1 and you will see a photo of Bolton Road...on the right as you go round the slight bend is where if I remember right is where...

Mah, Go to search, type in Bolton Road, Bordesley, you might find some info there. In the 50's I used to call in to my mates on the way to school, he lived at 224 Bolton Road which must have been more or less opposite 223. From memory your number must have been close to The Ex Serviceman's Club.

Stebro, My first job after leaving school too in early 60's. Money was no different then. Still enjoyed it there. Recall some hot summer days just popping into Moseley Road Baths during lunch interval for a cooling plunge. Somedays I was let loose when I'd go on the book deliveries with the...

That's right Old Boy, mek 'im suffer!

The Shadows eh? a bit more rock and roll than Side Saddle. Oh no! Just the mention of it and I can't get the tume out of my head...

Well hush ma mouth Len...You are quite right. I mean the Old Market Hall in the Bullring.

Thanks Bernie..I don't remember it being stuck up against a wall though...and I must have been Munchkin if I had to be lifted up to drop coppers in there...:D Still think it was red ...

Thanks Len...That Pet shop over the road, I bought a Java Sparrow there or rather me dad did. I think it was 7/6 or was it 2/6??? Right then, let me think, let me scan my brain - that wont take long - This is how I picture it. Went up flight of steps into old King's Hall Market. Then came to...

Was the bomb just in front of a place called Pimms or am I imagining things again?

Wendy asks "Was It painted red?" Thats interesting because if you would have asked me, what colour was it? My reply would be "It's painted red." I'm convinced in my mind that it was.

Suze, It was either the Tivoli or the Adelphi, probably the Tivoli.

We were so poor we never went to the pictures. We had to make do with Dad making shadows on the wall...That's if we could afford the candle to cast a shadow...I'm only joking. I can't remember the first film, although it was probably at either the Kingston, The Grange or the Coronet. I think it...

Must have made his money off pigeon fanciers and those hard dog biscuits he used to sell...Just down the Cov on the opposite side there was a Foster Brothers, where they used send the cash through a tube and on the same side as Turners, past Woolies there was McGauley's toy shop, don't suppose...