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I've had it. It's quite nice and makes a change, but I do prefer the black pudding. The white pudding is part of the traditional "Irish breakfast" and when I first had it, for the first time since I was a lad around 20 years ago, it was available at the hotel buffet alongside black pudding. I've...

Can't beat a bit of black pudding, it's a crucial part of the "Great British Breakfast". My wife also considers square slicing sausage with a morning roll, as a breakfast staple (aka Lorne sausage). As Frank Skinner warned at the Alex on Saturday though, "If you're a vegan, don't go into a...

Sadly Chico passed away recently. Here he is outside his boutique in the 70s:

Those "bad" jokes are so funny though aren't they? I may have heard them before, but in most cases, it is like I've never heard them at all. It's the way he tells them (to loosely quote Frank Carson)! :laughing:

I still tune in to Tony Blackburn on Saturday mornings. I still have an FM radio in my car. ;) Tony and his "Sounds of the 60's" show, is one of the few programmes and of their few older presenters (along with Johnnie Walker), that they seem unable to take off the air and long may that continue...

Members of the Royal Family have made visits to Villa Park and such visits have become increasingly regular as Prince William and his son George are fans of the club. The first photograph was taken in 1951, when our late Queen (the then, Princess Elizabeth) arrived to watch a physical recreation...

Here are a couple of photographs. The first is "The Marquis of Lorne", the second is Greenway Street, which is off Arsenal Street, so it may give some idea of what the properties in Arsenal Street, may have looked like (I wasn't able to find any old photographs of the housing in Arsenal Street):

Here are some notable Brummies, some of whom I didn't know were born in the city: 1) Barbara Cartland (born in Edgbaston), 2) Alan Napier (Alfred - born in Kings Norton), 3) Steve Winwood (born in Handsworth), 4) David Harewood (born in Small Heath), 5) Adrian Lester (born in...

I have sent him a message. Thanks for mentioning what I needed to do.

We had an incendiary bomb fall on our shop in Slade Road in Erdington. It went through the roof, burnt through the ceiling in my Dad's bedroom, through his bed and then through the floor to the room below, which had a stone floor. Fortunately for me and for my Dad (who was still at school then)...

I had so many hours of fun with my Escalado game, sixty odd years ago (which I think was originally my Dad's). It had a metal box base and the track itself was metal, and it moved with the winder. There were 4 lead horses, I often wonder what happened to it.

My son wanted to be a vet when he was around 11 too, but after my mother pointed out that the animals that he would be treating would be ill, there would be blood involved and that some of them would die, he soon changed his mind. :mask: He's a teacher now. ;)

Sorry that I'm a day late.

Yes, I have had the same thing in the past too. Unfortunately, a BBC presenter's late mother was subject to the same text scam and unlike us, fell victim to these heartless crooks. It was on BBC Midlands News last night, link below: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68684193

I guess i have been lucky with my e-Bay purchases, although I do check the seller's approval rating from their previous purchasers.

The Rose & Crown is @ 294 Gravelly Lane. We used to pop in there on occasion, it was near the old tenpin bowling (Chester Road), that is sadly long gone. A couple of photographs of the inside of the pub below: