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Hi All. Found this one any ideas? Pete

Hi All. I too am a "Journeyman", in my case a Journeyman Electrician, somewhere I still have the small card given to me in 1962 to carry to prove it! Pete

I believe that the gravestones are alongside the main pathway to the church, placed there when the work was completed. It must have been late 1970s or 80s

Thanks Wendy. I've made up for it now! The doctor says that I need to loose it now.... When we were expecting our first daughter in at the Sorrento in 1970 I stayed with the wife for 22 hours then went for a smoke and they wouldn't let me back in, I had to wait until she was born and the nurse...

Can I add my name to the ist that were born at the Sorrento? I was born in Sept 7th 1946 and entered this world at 2lb, only just survived! Pete

When I was courting my future wife our first experience of chinese food was at The China Gardens at the back of Lewis's always had egg, rice and curry on several repeat visits, all served in small dishes. We still talk about it. We also had breakfast at Lyons in New St, most days I won enough...

Last year we were given a greenhouse so I tried tomatoes for the first time and had about 120 tomatoes from the four plants that survived. This year a tried a 6 pack of seeds and at the moment most are green with just about 7 tomatoes red but I am growing one lot in the greenhouse and the other...

Do you remember Palmers just down from Mickey Philips who sold licorice? Mickie Philips moved to Belgrave Rd next to Tews the paper shop. Does anyone remember the sunday school on the corner of Hick St & Belgrave Rd opposite the taxi rank owned by the Page family? Sue.Petes wife!

Hi Pomgolian. My wife used to live in Balsall Heath and she asked about that shop! She also mentioned the cats, she lived in St Martins Flats and then Hick St before moving up to Billesley. Pete

Does anyone remember "dirty lil" who made toffee on a stick in the 50s?It was a corner shop just up from St Martins flats.

Yes paulE, you are correct it is called a Discatron and you could walk around and play 7" 45rpm records, an early Walkman! quite a clever idea for its time, found this one at a car boot several years ago but still looking for the "delux" model with the radio built in... In the 60/70s when the...

Here's an item from the past, still working but does anyone remember them? Pete

I've tried to get the DAB transmissions but I am not having much luck, I dont know why as its a radio signal and this is a radio !!

When dad worked at Cadbury's he bought an old Ford "Sit up and beg" for £5-00, this had been passed around the workers who always bought and sold it for £5-00 and each persons son used to learn to drive in it. It was a pig to start in the winter due to the 6 volt system and luckily we lived at...

Hi All. This is just outside the Birmingham area but someone might know about it. Several years ago I was driving down Fulford Hall Rd which is off Norton Lane Earlswood & I spotted this gravestone on the right hand side of the road, since then it has been damaged when the hedge was cut but...

I remember when the Tuder was showing "The Dambusters" and the whole of the side of the cinema was covered with posters advertising it. We used to go every Saturday and fight for the back row as that's were there was money to be found under the seats, I also remember going on stage on my birthday.

Hi All. The Honda 50/70/90 bikes all had a problem with rust under the rear mudguard , it could fail the MOT if to bad. Great little runabouts, had several of them and very reliable.Once brought a 4foot fire surround and fire on the back of one of them across the city in the rush hour and...

Re: Happy Valley community festival The Happy Valley Community Festival takes place on Daisy Farm Recreation grounds and is organised by the people at Warstock Community Centre, usually around June so contact the centre for more details.. Pete

Hi All. I asked someone by me who remembers going there as a child he said that Q homes which is on the corner of Yardley Wood Rd/Pendeen Rd was a sweet shop and as you approached the canal it was on the left hand side, not where the bus garage is as I previously said!, there was a public toilet...

Hi there. As far as I know there is a bus depot built on the site of "happy valley" When you look at pictures of the site it cant be on the "Billesley" side of the canal as the ground falls steeply down to the valley at the border of "Warstock/Billesley". Is there anyone old enough who remembers...