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Well I'm shocked nothing looks familiar to me, I was born in Selly Oak, l worked in Selly Oak then travelled through it every day into town I know Selly Oak or use to ?. Going to fire up the desk top and street view Selly Oak.

Hmmmmmmm who ever said English food was boring.

Loved to twist the top off a small one and spread some Lurpack and take a bite, makes me think of summer.

I miss bread the good gear I grew up eating, Mother's Pride, Hawley's a tin loaf something you could make a real sarnie out of with out it falling apart The bread we get here if you make a bacon and egg sarnie with HP falls apart you have to use both hands to hold it almost cradling it. What...

I have held off from posting here waiting on all the pictures. First thank you Lyn with out your work 2020 would not start off so well. Let me assure you I was there just like a Brummie girl who is trying not to get her bum burnt right now, or guy dodging earthquakes in the Med, and a man in...

The same here glass bowel on the table for Sunday tea.

When I read the clue for 15 I was going to post how on Earth could I possibly know that !!!!. Now seeing your post I have to admit I know the name but I don't know why.

I had to chuckle when I read Skeggy I have never heard it called that. But that must have been a long ride back in the day, even now headed to that part of England from Birmingham can't be good. I remember day trips to Western Super Mare home of the mud flat beach when the tide was out. We...

It was like melt that marrow in your back, or growing pains non of it true Now if they had said growing old pains !!!.

I use to like a swig of malt vinegar when I was young, I forget which one of my folks said it would dry up my blood .

When I see what has become of the city center with the loss and tower crane all over, I have to ask myself what chance does a old pub like the Eagle and Lion have

Vinegar and cucumber salad my pop calls it a " wet " salad one of his favorite things The river Rea ran at the back of our house and yes just like every kid we would build a dam. The allotments were at the top of our cul de sac but we could get to them from the field at the rear of the house...

The garden shed a early "man cave" now I am rethinking the whole Allotments deal,

Under hood beautification a large plastic cover with some silver stipes and a badge. The man I served my apprenticeship under George Garrett good guy forever broke had four boys. But new his " stuff " when it came to Rolls Royce never owned a car rode the bus to work and smoked Park Drive. I...

Do you mean the office tower by Snowhill Station ?. I cant recall the name of the big island there now, but there use to be a hamburger stand right there we would go to and hang out late at night with guys that had custom cars etc. i worked with a fellow whose pop owned it so we ate free, they...

The last car I owned in the UK a Ford Ranchero with a 400 cu in engine (6.5 Litre) a V12 Jag 5.3, thankfully a friend owned a gas station on the by-pass from the Maypole to Redditch but to get through the weekend I had to fill jerry cans.

There was a time when you wanted to drive round the world you had to buy a Land Rover, then maybe a Volkswagen Bug that way parts were available. But now if you want to drive round the world you need a Camry.

One for you Porsche guys, if you are wondering who that good looking guy is next to the 16 car its yours truly.

Yes a Austin J built in Wales, a factory set up by Austin along with the government for coal miners who could no longer mine A real surprise coming down the stairs Christmas morning and finding that in the hall way painted bright red.

Here you go my first car, that cutie next to me is my cousin who has not aged at all but is now a grandmother.