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Do I recall this correctly Stirchley Bowl was also a moving picture house ? I recall my folks in a bowling league there and even going myself with friends to play, renting those cream and cherry red shoes.

The park is called Coften Park spent many a afternoon in the summer there when I was young there was a entrance at the end of my street, Birmingham City has a nursery there for growing plants for the islands and such. Sadly the little fun fair fell out of favor and by the mid 70's it was still...

The arcade was called Fletcher's and the one down towards the island was owned and run by the smart family when I left the UK my friend Sam Smart owned and ran the arcade.

Fletcher's Copper Coin owned by Jim Flecher's sadly no longer with us you can see the where the sign was on the right. Now owned by Joe Fletcher Jim's son and my best and long time friend. You can now understand where the name for the bar comes from. The arcade was modeled after a Las Vegas...

Santa Barbarra a great place to start a drive up the coast thru Big Sur and onto San Francisco one of the best drives ever, I made the drive with my wife in her XJSC years ago. San Francisco"s trolley are cable cars there is a steel cable that runs under the street and never stops the driver of...

It was the sound it made, like a wooden roller coaster climbing the first hill before the the drop .

I can see now my mother keep't a big secret from me, not only did Santa Claus live on the top floor of Lewis's department store they also sold great ice cream. So the best thing for me was the old wooden moving stair case Ha Ha

Henley was always good for a drive out and walk the high street then buy a ice cream. One of the best things growing was a "Knickerbocker Glory" on holiday in Cornwall. then of course a Tonibell oyster shell, we did not see the Tonibell van that often and I remember them being blue

I did not need to turn the sound up on the add because I still sing it all these years later along with a Teetly Tea add and the teddy bear picnic song.

Well its been at least 40 years since I was in Barnt Green but when I was young we would go there all the time as I lived in Rednal it was a short bike ride. My pop just had his 90th birthday party down there in September, looking at the picture the place has not changed much since my youth.

To this day I can not eat liver and onions or brains on toast both things my folks liked I could eat the tined roe from the chippie but not fresh roe. Kidneys with chips on a Saturday night was a favorite, steak and kidney pie also, the Fry Bentos ones are sold in the English store here I...

Batchlor's dried peas 1/9d a box best ones for a pea shooter, emty the box into your front pocket good to go.

Can't remember the last time I had a bowl of porridge, with some milk and sugar on top. It's strange I loved it as a kid made for myself all the time, must be 50 years since I made it. Porridge and scrambled eggs was the first things along with toast I cooked. Here it's called oatmeal ...

Same here to much citrus, people buy a home here and get all excited they have fruit trees till the fruit comes then the fruit rats Ha Ha. A lot of times people put the fruit in a milk crate and leave bags out front with a sign saying free, just to get it gone.

Maurice, your oranges then and now probably come from Florida, California only exports about 10 percent and most goes ta Asia. Florida exports to Endland but a lot of oranges are grown in Brazil. I live not far from the Tropicana processing plant and when it's running the whole area smells of...

Thankfully your memories did not go in the skip, the funny thing about our memory it tends to recall the good times.

It took me a while to figure out what was wrong with the before picture ?. No road ! of course I see that young mom shoving the pram through the mud and my heart went out to her. She has done a days work just getting down the street that's not there, then the other thing no trees. Then just to...

Hmmm a couple of slices of malt loaf with Lurpack butter after tea on a Sunday luvely. Crumpets on a cold damp night hot with the butter melting watching Police 5. Maybe have a little blackcurrant jam on one.

John I am so glad you mention Eddie, I am sure he could have told us a couple is stories. Any one wanting a a real treat read Eddie's thread a true delight and a journey in drumming starting in Birmingham.