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Thank you so much so far for your response i am resarching for some other site i visit :D

Can any of you more mature people out there :lol: remember the name of any restaurants in Brum during the 60s , any type of food English, Chinese Indian etc many thanks Pam.

Just to say i used to love playing polly on the mop stick as we called it my i had a few bruises to show for it. Have we had a face as long as Livery Street? We now say a face as long as a Bruce Springsteen concert, i remember seeing him at Villa Park in the 80s or was it the 90s :oops: you...

Well i think the flats are called Endwood Court so perhaps the house used to be there, i remember the Midland Red bus i used to think they were much more comfy and little up market compared to WM Transport. :P I can remember catching one to come over to Shirley to see my family as a teenager...

Diana i assume you mean Wellington Road island by the block of flats actually private apartments :lol: famous in the 60s as Noel Gordon lived in one and could be seen driving round HW in her Rolls Royce with the registration number Noel 1.Thanks for the information about the papers i shall have...

Your Grandad must have been a very brave man Diana. I lived in H. Wood and people still used to refer to Hamstead as the colliery. Do you Remember the no 16 bus it said Handsworth Wood and Hamstead on the front and Hamstead was the terminus. The Town Hall is indeed being restord thank goodness...

Yes i remember the pig bins but at school (Grestone Avenue) we used to play hide and seek round them the smell was awful but if you could stand the smell longe enough when hiding behind one you won. :D Of course nothing was wasted and the scrapes went to the pigs, so why the change?Was this the...

I remember my Grandparents having a scullery where they kept the food, i also remember we had sterilised milk because it kept better i had a friend who loved it she would ask for a glass when ever she came round it was in a tall bottle the other sort pas was in a fat bottle, i do no that they...

I was born in 52 in to a modern post war house so we always had a bathroom and hot water, but dad was still stingy with the water he said it cost alot to heat so we had to share our bath water :shock: that went on until we were teenagers, there was 4 of us ,we by this time were more fussy and...

Funny smell i don't no what you mean :wink:

Yes i remember Oasis it always smelt of burning insents :roll: I loved the clothes i used to like the indian stores cheesecloth shirts and blouses and embroidered tops, velvet trousers, Little coffee shops, record stores, people used to leave them unatended and very often you would have to wait...

Yes but we had boutiques also in Brum but apart from Bustop i can't remember the names of any others. :cry:

Yes i remember Henry's and i am of the same opinion as the men on this one i thought the stuff was substandard, i prefered Lewis's Etams, C&A and later on the boutique's, but can only remember the name of one Bustop, does any one remember the names of any others?

Yes Sue just like that the stethoscope always fascinated me :o In the seventies for Christmas one of our sons had the Fisher Price Doctors set it seemed so sophisticated compared to the one i had.

I remember my Postoffice set and my Bus Conductors set :D also of course my nurses outfit :D.

We never used The Heart Throb, we used to go to the Top Rank and The Lacarno, i remember the toilets were called the boudoir i thought that was ever so posh :D Also of course the good old Plaza Rookery Road, I was to young to see The Beatles but i remember the crowds outside, did any of you lot...

I think they closed the ice rink and changed it to a roller rink when they opend Silver Blades in town buy Hurst Street , i also used to go bowling there. You lot have an incredible memory for detail :o

Yes my brother complains that he has not had s.heart since Mom passed away .She used to stuff them with stuffing and pot roast them slowly.

Yes as children we used to have brains on toast :roll: i doubt you can buy them now i still however love soft roe on toast, could never get on with stuffed heart found it to strong. :?

My Dad used to draw a chicken every Christmas when we were young the insides were yellow. Chitterling i loved them when i was young we used to buy them from the pork butchers on Rookery Road, i had some recently they were not the same, not fatty enough :D Good fat then = bad fat now :cry: