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16. Gaslight

35. Blade Runner.

24. The Graduate

47. All about Eve

A very interesting quiz. If we are just about finished with this then the answers can be seen via the link below. Only just found it, honest. Looks as if we all did very well. Dave. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9105603/Can-50-hit-songs-hidden-inside-one-picture.html

How much is that doggy in the window. Far left

King of the Road. Middle right

There was a programme on BBC1 this afternoon called "The Farmers Country Showdown". It started at 3-45 pm and featured the market at Moseley Village together with a small amount of filming at the swimming baths. It is currently on iPlayer and you need to look from about 25 minutes into the...

Pockets would contain handkerchiefs, coins, comb, packet of polo mints and perhaps a door key. If wearing a school blazer, then there would be a row of pens in the top pocket. Nowadays I carry a small shoulder bag for: at least two masks, sanitiser, mobile phone, spectacles, small notebook...

The Sunday Mercury on March 15th 1959 was advertising "Summer with Monika" at the Cinephone. This was a Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman (Imgar in the advert). It was a film about "the intimacies of an adult love at a tender age". I wish I had seen it. Showing also was "Twopennyworth of...

Hope you are much better very soon. Dave.

Profitt and Westwood was a popular shop for buying plants and gardening materials. I think that there were several in Birmingham but I'm not sure of their locations. Dave

Hi Jonob. Might have been "Leslie's"? Lesley is the usual spelling for a woman and Leslie for a man.

Never wear suede shoes at a wedding as they do not come out well in photographs. I wore a pair of new hush puppies (brushed suede) in this highly cropped photograph of 1964. You can see that they look quite grubby compared to the polished shoes worn by the groom. I did receive an adverse comment...

Hi Nigel. If you use the search facility for "HKPS", not titles only, this will lead you to an existing thread on Handsworth Kindergarten and Preparatory School. Hope this helps. Dave.

Happy birthday Lyn. Hope you have a great day.

Just read in today's Sunday Times that the Ian Allan Book and Model shop near London Waterloo station is to close on 31st October. It was mainly used by people over 50 and they are not traveling to London anymore. I got the impression that this was the last of the Ian Allan bookshops and...

Today is Trafalgar Day and 215 years since the battle. Just wondered if a ceremony of any sort takes place at Nelson's statue in the Bull Ring? Dave

Hi Jim. According to the Radio Times both the London and the Birmingham sites are reported in tonight's programme. BBC 2 at 9pm.

The above quote from Norfolk Brummie was made on 28th January 2015. It refers to Gerry Freeman, drummer in the Applejacks, being seen around 2012 at the National Drum Show in Birmingham.