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charlie the staff there are fab full of information and great caretakers of places like the pen room without these people places like this will be forgotten forever and they do it all for the love of it sistersue you must go if your really into pens then its the place to visit the pens there...

my self and my daughter visited the pen room last year. we walked in and started having a look round one of the volunteers asked if he could show us round and it was amazing he took us through the process of how a pen and knib is made told us about the conditions the people had to work in the...

hi all currantly at the moment my new history project is the second world war. i think why im interested in is because my mom remembers the war from her childhood and her dad went off to fight and ended up as a pow in burma. so i tend to read anything of interest in books and on the web on the...

Re: Birmingham History Galleries: Do you have a suburban story? (oral history project Hi all. Hope this is the right place. Today my daughter and myself took ourselves off to brum for the day to visit the museum and the Birmingham history galleries. What fantastic gallerys they are. With...

paul your a man on my wave lenth i too struggle with this new fandangled modern world where everything moves at the speed of light and anything that has just came out is so yesterday five minuites ago i too was bought up to use my manners respect my elders and never judge anybody untill youve...

yes dave it was the green soap with the baby in the nappie stamped on the front and do you think i can find it in any of the shops nope begining to think they dont make it anymore but i shall have a look on the website youve posted

Occupations i remember from my childhood the coal man who used to come once a week with a sack of coal and put it in the coal house for my mom. the bin men who used to carry the metal bins on their backs to the wagon. snugs in pubs my dad spent many a happy time in them. out doors me and my...

talking of products that have faded away. ive been hunting hi and low for fairy soap. I remember it as a child my mother bought it when we went away on holidays. The smell reminds me of my childhood and many a happy holiday in weston super mare, but do you think i can find it in any of the shops...

I had to order this book from tamworth libary and had to wait a week for it to arrive but its here and i cant wait to settle down in my bed later and read it. For those of you not famillar with the title it was telivised a few christmases ago titled house wife 49. Victoria wood played nella...

i did make a treacle sponge last week the old fashioned way when i turned it out and looked at my handy work my son whos 15 said "what in gods name have you made mother" "treacle sponge i replied feeling rather proud of my first attempt. He looked at it poked it and sniffed it and said "give us...

my mother who is 77 comes out with some absolute corkers.. when the paralympics were on i had gone down to see her and whilst sitting there watching the tv she asked my to pass her the bleeper for the tv. I asked her what she wonted to watch her reply i wont to watch the cycling on the paraletic...

hi all ive just been reading through this post and its bought back so many memorys for me bread pudding, dripping sandwiches, rice pudding to name but a few. I work in catering and one of our supervisers is a lady in her 60's she makes the most wonderfull bread pudding on a large scale, the...

hi all if this is in the wromg place sorry inadvance was wondering if anybody can help at all im now back on my family tree picking my way through and found out that my grand mother's father henry roach and his wife beatrice were living in court 6 3 house high street aston birmingham. can...

hi all been a long time since i was on here last but i thought i would pop in and have a nosey round and came across the soho road thread and oh how it bought back some happy memorys. As some of you may know i was born and bought up on the handsworth new road in winson green during the 1970's...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FORUM thankyou jim for stepping in and saving this fantastic site and for putting in all the hours and hard work thankyou to all the mods who again give their free time to make sure the site runs smoothly and thankyou to all the members on here who have such a wealth of...

hi all im from the green well the bottom end opposit handsworth new rd school well its not a school anymore its apartments i often go home to the green and yes i agree the whole area has fallen into a state which is ashame because the green was a fab place to live

quick update on contacting gary smith brewin books replied to my email and said that i can write to gary smith and post it to them and they will pass it on to him result lol so i shall be putting pen to paper this weekend thanx for everybodys help celia xxx

hi maggie thankyou for your reply i did as barrie surgested and have been on brewin books wonderfull website by the way far too many books to choose from anyways i found a email address and have emailed them in the hope that they will reply if they dont then i shall contact radio W.M and see if...

they are fab reads barrie not very big books took me about to house to read them inbetween doing other thing lol but worth it thanks for the tip i will see if the publishers have an email address if not it will have to be snail mail lol celia

i would like to recomend to lovely books some of you may have read them most if not all of you have come across them they are WINSON GREEN MY WORLD A WALK UP THE GREEN both are by gary smith both these wonderfull books are a must for those who lived on the green i myself is from the green...