Search results

When I laughed, after I had upset him, he would say, "You'll laugh on the other side of your face my lad" never really understood that saying!!

What nostalgia, and beautifully choreographed photo,love it !!

Great Woolworths in the Bull Ring Alan

I remember all those stores mentioned, seems a life time ago !!

Yes, even Wrensons, and John Favours, had chairs to sit whilst being served!!

great view Viv, was this the same market I went with my dad on Saturdays in the 50's , without the roof??

can someone tell me where I would have caught, the Sutton Coldfield, train from to get to the park!! I seem to think it was New Street , but unsure many thanks!!

Hagley Road now a duel carriage way , Blimey!!

I was there a few years before you, when Mother Mary Martina was HM, and Father O'Rielly was priest, it was very tough, though of course in the 50's there was not a word , called abuse, unheard of in those days when children were disciplined from birth really, thought nothing of it .!!

goes to show how the memory fails with age !!

62, going a bit off thread here Gerry, great to have talked to you!!

I did a stint at the AADW, when Williamson was depot Sart Major

Are next door neighbour, had a "James Captain" I seem to remember, back in early 60's , I used to see it parked outside his house, I think A red and crome tank, lots of crome everywhere, looked really fast to a young lad!!

2396

No one who served in the 60's would, not know those names, "Black Alec" was a legend, I started in boy service with another icon, "Perry Mason", and of course "John Blood, Joe Grindley"

I was a Coldstreamer Gerry!!

When a "Sprog", at Pirbright, my "Gold Bloke", made me get my hair cut 3 times in a morning, , never forgot it !!

I remember that saying Gerry, we had a grove near us in Hasbury Road where a infamous family lived , and their boys would always shout that when calling for my friends!!

Another saying dad said when frustrated about something was a bit odd, he would say, "I'll go to the foot of our stairs, and pick roses"? used to make me laugh thou!!

I missed out a lace where we lived when first born with my Nan and Aunt and uncle, and Pam and Lyn, my cousins for a short while in 47, 12a Vicarage Road Handsworth, Birmingham