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Nick, We must have met all those years ago. You weren't the lad with the lotus elan were you? When times were tough we used to go to The Cedar Club and say we were nurses from Dudley Road and they let us in for free. I dread to think what would have happened if some-one had had an accident. My...

I loved The Rum Runner too, used to go there late sixties, early seventies, also used The Opposite Lock, Sloopy's, Top Rank, Dolce Vita, The Metro Club, sold hot dogs outside Mothers in Erdington and had my hen party at Bloomers. I worked at Rebecca's (named my daughter Rebecca) Barbarella's...

In 1969 I was an operator at Hill St Telephone Exchange, it was a terrible job, even timed when we asked for 'a casual' to go to the loo. Didn't last long there, awful management, loads of old maids working there because not many years before you had to leave if you got married. Would probably...

As I remember it OldMohawk, around that time a phone call cost 4d and wasn't timed so you could sometimes wait for ages. Bit different nowadays!

I was 11 years old, just started senior school, my favourite Aunt Joan was visiting when the news came on TV. She was mid twenties, became hysterical and prophesised the start of WW111. Thank goodness she was wrong, for once. Anne

How lovely Ken. That's a great story.

In my last year at Kingshurst we had a brilliant teacher called Mr Bellamy. He was always pulling one over on the headmistress Miss Caswell who was a bit of a dragon. When we went to Stratford on a school trip he got us to secrete the cricket kit about us as we marched off to the coach past her...

Kingshurst Junior School. We were learning to write with dippy in pens and needless to say, got ink on our fingers as they weren't much better than quills. Later that day, we went to another teacher Miss Woodward for a different lesson. I was absentmindedly running my finger around the rim of...

My father was stationed in Italy during the war at a military placed called Pozzuolli, he absolutely loved Sorrento and The Amalfi Coast, he used to talk about it often. My eldest brother Bruce was born at The Sorrento on March 26th 1948 but sadly died of leukemia in 1950. This year my son and...

In 1970 I worked at a company called Air Call in Cherry Street. Before mobile phones, it was a company that connected drivers through radio control and pagers i.e. BBC news reporters and I recall Alan Whicker was one of our clients. Some strange people, one chap refused to sign up unless his...

My brother worked at Lynne's Candy Cabin at weekends about 1964, we lived in Overgreen Drive and both of us went to Coleshill Grammar. He seemed to spend all his wages on chocolate and the rest of us were always jealous because he didn't give us any. I used to go to Scotfords every morning to...

Does anyone ever remember being bitten by a flea at the pictures?

Also did rain drop racing, two ball up the nearest wall (Inky Pinky Ponky etc.), skipping, handstands up the wall, balancing on the concrete and metal pole fencing around the flats in Overgreen Drive, putting on shows asking 1d entrance fee and spending the 1ds on refreshments, collecting rose...

I missed the television programmes, so have spent 5 hours this weekend catching up on iplayer, mainly due to the comments on this thread. My Aunt lived in Garrison Lane until about the late sixties and I remember her house well, as I stayed with her on a number of occasions, so I feel a...

Brumgum, My Dad's family moved in to Cotterills Lane in 1928 to a new council house so it would be 20's though some could have been later. Anne

The story in my family is that my brother Bruce who died from leukaemia aged 2 yrs 2 months in 1950, when corrected by my Dad used to say ' I love my Daddy, not, I love my Mommy ooh aarr' and I recall ooh aarr being used instead of yes. He also used to throw his glass milk bottle over the top of...

My great grandparents Thomas and Annie Farley lived at Court 3, House 1 Sherlock St, my grandparents also lived in Sherlock St where my Mother was born in 1926 but I don't know which number. They were rehoused in South Yardley in 1938. If anyone has any photos of Sherlock St or knows where I...

My husband's family were hawkers from Ruiton near Lower Gornal in the Black Country. They sold cattle licks all over the area, travelling in horse pulled wagons. On a visit to the Black Country Museum, I was talking to one of the guides and she told me that there was a hawkers wagon from Ruiton...

Hi Nico, That sounds more like it. I must have printed that about a thousand times so I should have remembered although it was nearly 45 years ago.