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Yes indeed, Astonian. There are several British surnames which automatically give their owners a nickname. You have quoted one of the best known, White, Chalky White. Another that comes to mind is Clark/Clarke, Nobby Clark/Clarke and anyone with any combination of Mc or Mac is often known...

Excellent, Eric. You've truly captured the experience of being there. Brrrrrrr! Brilliant! David

Thanks Terry for the photographs and the memories. My fellow articled clerks and I would often stay in the office for 15 or 20 minutes after 5.30pm on Thursdays and then wander off to the Minstrel to be there for opening time at 6 o'clock. Long dreary days of assets, balances, audits...

When still at school, I worked for Sheldon Industrial Cleaners on High Street, Bordesley at weekends on and off for three years (1964/67). Besides keeping the assembly lines at Longbridge rolling by removing excess paint, grease, and sealing wax from walls, pits and spray areas - along with...

"Don't be like that! ..... stop messin' about." Kenneth Williams in Hancock's Half Hour and elsewhere. David

Hello, Phil, Fascinating photos indeed .... but whatever happened to the indigenous trees in the top half of the first photograph? Were they diseased and had to be cut down? Why does Man have to play with Nature? Surely the young majestic Horse Chestnut on the left and the other two 'English'...

...... and then there are the classics : "Come down off that wall! It's far too dangerous! ........ well if you fall off and break a leg, don't come running to me!"

Christopher, Thanks ever-so-much for asking ........ it was one of those cases of "Well, errr, we'll let you know ......". But they never bothered ...... D.

Christopher, You have probably heard the story of a young bloke who met an elderly gentleman at their local bus stop one Monday morning; the gentleman had a stick of celery stuck behind his right ear. On the Tuesday, again the chappie found the very same old man waiting for his bus. Wednesday...

Hello there, Christopher, I missed this post in August - away with the family on holiday - and although I never played for or against any of the school teams you mention, I did play wicketkeeper for Bordesley Green Primary for two seasons during the summer terms of precisely the same two years...

A rather forlorn GWR 28** Class 2-8-0 Churchward designed engine for heavy goods traffic standing at Platform 5 photographed on 20th June, 2007, when I was in Birmingham for five weeks nursing my Mum after a second hip replacement op. Ninety-nine of these engines were initially built between...

I haven't, Bernard ...... but I'd fly home tomorrow and buy a ticket at £25 if I was offered the chance! Where did you photograph this splendid model? Look after yourself, David

Can't wait to get my fingers rapped! Mike always does it so gentlemanly. Get back to the Forum soon, Mike. David

Hello there "Old Boy", Private Ernest Fellows was from Birmingham, Private Robinson came from Nechells, Birmingham and Private Thompson from Holloway Head, Birmingham. They were shot when they were 29 years, 31 years and 25 years of age respectively. During the First World War there were 346...

Although this is probably an inappropriate thread, zak14 has this moment jogged my memory - so I hope I will be forgiven. Has anybody on the Forum any news of Stan Nettles. Stan is a great blues mouth organ/harmonica player who once told me he had played with Black Sabbath in their early days...

The Cream at Birmingham University; The Who at the Town Hall; Georgie Fame at a club on Constitution Hill (?); Jack Bruce here in Salerno; Simply Red, Dire Straits in a small town in southern Italy called Cava dei Tirreni; and the Rolling Stones all crammed into one large car (possibly a Humber...

Sadly they were all shot at dawn ..... on 26th July, 1915 these five men of the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment were executed on the ramparts of Ypres in what became the largest single execution by the British during the First World War. They had all been found guilty of desertion.

Hello there, Postie, I'm still downhearted about not having won the "atlas and guide" :sorrow:. But no, it wasn't like the one above. This is the eBay photograph : ..... and here's the description : this is a bartholomews pocket atlas and guide to birmingham dated 1952 it is a collectors...

I've just missed out on a 1952 edition of Bartholomew’s Pocket Atlas and Guide to Birmingham on eBay. :cry: I upped the bid from £0.99 to £5. I hope I haven't trodden on a fellow member’s toes and that it went to a good home. Someone wanted it far more than I did. Pity ……. but good luck whoever...

Here you go, Lyn. This was posted yesterday, 23rd October ..... bringing to the top....the bhf bandwagon rolls on..:thumbsup: hi everyone...now i know its very early but we had to act quickly on this meet up in case of problems booking a room...which has now been offically booked and deposit...