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Thanks All. I was born in 1946 and I dont remember them at all. Thanks for the info. Pete

Perry Barr Shoppng Centre This thread brings back memories as I worked on this site in1963 from start to finish. It was that cold winter in 63 that we started laying conduit runs in the snow and it used to stick to your skin and would ripe the skin. It always was a windy and cold site even when...

Do you remember the pea soupers we had in the 50s---70s? I was working in Perry barr and had got on the bus at Perry Barr shopping centre, when it arrived in the City centre I changed to the No 24 to go home to Billesley but the fog got worse and we crawled along until the driver stopped and...

Thanks Barrie. I printed the article to give our neighbour, I dont remember them at all. Pete

G'day Hi Pete. The G'day catchphrase was used between myself and another collegue in the Satellite trade and was our usual greeting over the phone.I had T- shirts made with the logo "G'day brothers" because we used to do a lot of jobs together. I still have mine. Pete

An elderly neighbour has asked me for information about "British Restaurants" He thinks that they were all around the country usually in wooden huts on vacant land. They were put up after the war and supplied cheap meals. He thinks that there was one in Billesley and Balsall Heath. Pete

Hi All. I am looking for info about my father who was in the Home Guard in the Kings Heath/Billesley area and was also a despatch rider,His name was Herbert Haylor.I have looked on the websites linked to this website with no luck. Thanks. Peter Haylor

Hi All. What generation had the best life? I would say the generation born after WW2, my generation....... Born 1946 into a new world,new health service,etc Enjoyed school, walked straight into an apprenticeship, plenty of work in the redevelopment of Birmingham,Bought a house easily, got...

Hi All. What generation had the best life? I would say the generation born after WW2, my generation....... Born 1946 into a new world,new health service,etc

Sweets we grew up with When we visited "Farmer Teds" at Earlswood there was a sweet shop there that stocks a lot of the old type sweets and if you ask them they try to get any other ones you can remember. Pete

Pinfold House Hi Nick Found this pic and text on the net. 17th century, altered. Timber-framed; stuccoed; old tile roof. Two storeys; 4 bays. Ground floor with a window, a modern door within modern surround but with original flat moulded hood, and 2 windows. First floor with a window, now...

Aprons I have to remind my wife to take hers off before we go out, it's like a second skin! she feels undresses without it. Pete

ghosts? When I got married one of the guests was our neighbour who had lived next door for over 50 years and had an obsession with cleaning, even to the point when she polished the exposed waterpipes and they started to leak because she had polished them through. We moved and only returned to...

Hi All. I got talking to a neighbour about the unique taste of the orange juice we used to get from the welfare in the 1950s, what was in it, was it concentrated, as everyone I know used to drink it as it came? or was it just full of sugar. I have never found anyother juice to taste like it. Pete

Bordesley Flyover Hi There. Here is a picture of the flyover ,I found it on the Internet. Pete

Silver Blades As teenagers we used to go several times a month to the Silver Blades, but only one of the gang could skate so he would pull us around the ice ring until someone fell, then we went to the bar! We saw many now famous groups play there over the years.If we missed the last bus we had...

St Patricks School Hi Again. St Patricks School was in Highgate St and is still there.St Patricks Church was at the side of it but has now been demolished.

Hi Dolphie. I'm sory but I dont have any photos of the bakery . I can't go and take some as the frontage was demolished years ago, I believe the back of the bakery is still there and used for car repairs, I will take a look next time I am in the area. I found this picture of dad caught when he...

Hi There. has anyone got any pictures of the above school around 1955------1965 or any ex pupils out there that would remember Susan Osborne. Thanks

Houses the Bakers Hi Dolphie. My dads name was Herbert Haylor known as "Bert". He left just before the selling out and went to work at Cadburys until he retired. I dont know any of the owners names but dad was friendly with a Mr Bates, who also worked there, they lived in Shard End and we used...