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I remember that name well Gerry, I seem to remember it in a sort of rising sun shape, red? on the radiator front, but after so long may be wrong!!

great stories and history.

Memories are strange, and the oddist recollections, from a very young can persist through to old age. Mine, is sitting in a sort of pushchair, with my dad's arms very brown and a white shirt with the arms rolled up to his bicep, and I was looking through a fringe of sorts which was swaying ,and...

Great memories Morturn, thanks for sharing, when in the military , i did a short visit to RAF Locking, and went to Western for a couple of hours, was amazed at The never ending sandy beach!

Cheerio, "you silly boy", RIP Ian, thanks for the laughs!!

Love the Dalek story!! and the Uncle Holly!1 marvelous!!!

When it first opened in the late 50's early 60's I went to the American coffee bar/burger diner, "Wimpey Bar", in the ringway, extremely novel though expensive, a burger and bent sausage unheard of in UK at that time !!

We, in the technical 21st C, with the iNTERNET AND MOBILES, sometimes forget, that within living memory, children were bought up with nothing, but love, and handouts. This was not the unemployed, or skivers family's, but the "Working Poor", my dear old dad had 2 jobs, and my mom worked part...

Hello Louise, and welcome to the Forum, Carol was my first experience of death and affected greatly as a child, Barry was my best friend way back then. As kids we would all go to the "ressa", and on the way back would go into farmer Bullocks field by Scotland Road , where it bent down towards...

My memories as a boy, was the friendliness of Brummies, when I would go with mom or dad on the Trams, especially in the mornings, nearly all who got on , or off the tram would shout , getting on "Morning All", and when getting off , " Tarrah a bit ", lovely days !!!

For a very short time I was a "progress chaser", for PYE Telecom, Richard, then they promoted me to byer, but couldn;t stand inside work, and left!!

Ostler, Railway Porter, bus conductor.

Great story Viv, But I never saw one, despite being all over the city as a kid, must have all gone by 1958, when I was about !!

Being poor, !! and wanted so much to be a rocker , at the "Ace of Cards Cafe" , Bristol Road Selly Oak, the ton up boys would go there, much older than me of course, I would have been about 13/14, they wore leather jackets, with skulls and other signs and badges, painted on them, and blue jeans...

So very true Richard, being a poor boy , but with a paper round, and a very kind shop keeper who would help and sometimes gift, An old Ian Allen, for a twopence bus ride, on the number 11 , and penny platform ticket, would sit with all the travellers, going to places I could only dream of, and...

Snow hill, was totally synonymous, with my whole life , growing up in Birmingham, as child with my dear dad, taking me regularly to visit the trains, and visiting other parts of the Midlands. To train watching, as a boy and youth, left Birmingham to go into the army from there, and catching the...

Brilliant photo, from a time when large families, were the norm, even so , amazing.

I loved all the radio programmes from the 60's and 60's, even in the military , with our small transistors even when on stag!!

me too !!

I believe that my mates brother was killed at the airfield, surname Strong from weoley Castle!!