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SWOON TIME FOR THE MOMS. ( 1948 ish ). It was only natural for us kids to occassionally check our Moms state of mood or emotions ( I mean, it was no good asking Mom for a favour if you judged she was in a temper or agitated about something ). There was this Radio programme our Mom used to listen...

" GET YOUR SPOONS OUT FRANK, YOU ARE ON ". The Family House party. What a time this was for us kids. Uncles, Aunties and Cousins all coming over to our house for a party get to- gether. Mom spending the afternoon preparing sandwiches. Dad clearing the living room of unessarsary pieces of...

" BOTTLED OUT ". Somewhere around the 1940's. It was all about that business between the difference of ' from the ground looking up' and ' from up there looking back down'. The adventure started with a group of us kids, in Sutton Park, finding ourselves in the area of the Fair Ground over by the...

" Yeah, this ones good enough to take home ". In this period, and up our end, there didn't appear to be much attention paid by parents regarding their children's 'academic' achievements at school ( so long as their kids didn't get into too much trouble at school the Moms and Dads seemed to...

DIG FOR HISTORY. A Brummie that tells about Brum for the Brummies. Read him, listen to him, watch him and you see a man that obviously loves his city. Good luck in the future mate. Sketch : History Man.

Recalling some of the ' hiccups' of early TV and Sound Cinema films. Early available Television came to our homes, we were able to view such things as drama plays, variety stage shows, discussion programmes and many other picture and sound features. Rehearsals completed, stage set, sound...

A foreign holiday dance hotel. All guests invited to join in. ( Come on George, let's go down and give it a go ). Acrylic on paper. 2009. Roy Blakey.

Carrying out a search on the Internet I have come across a Birmingham City Council site " Children of the poor in Sutton Park". It describes the events of the slum- dwelling and under privaleged children of Birmingham who were taken on day trips to Sutton Park by the " Birmingham Cinderella Club...

Made another day out for the family. ( 1984 - 1995). What shall we do this Sunday ? How about we have a ride up to Brum Airport and go watch the Aeroplanes coming and going and if the weathers good we can drive over the road and have a picnic on Elmdon Heath. A good break for Mom and Dad and a...

A 1970's FIRST HOLIDAY ABROAD.

A SCIVE OFF. ( but rubber stamped by the teachers ). Around 1944. The schools classroom windows had been ' cross taped ' to prevent shattering during air raids but all the bottom rows of the windows had been fully covered with stuck on paper ( this served as a good anti-shatter protection but I...

A morning with Dad. Period : Pre-war. I was out in the street one Sunday morning, playing with my friends and I heard Dad calling to me from the bottom of our entry. I ran over to see what he was calling me for. He told me that he was going down Perry Barr to get some wood for the Chicken House...

From a brummie war-time kid. I would just like to add my own thanks and tribute today, in rememberance to Winston Churchill. The man that in the early years of WW2, when things were not looking too good, gave everyone that extra strength and determination that got us through in the end. Good Bloke.

I'M A BUS DRIVER TODAY. (Making a Bus trip with Mom ). Waiting in the queue at the Bus terminus. Here's the Bus coming. Smashing, got the seats right behind the drivers cabin. If I stand up I can see right into his cab. The bus driver has just climbed up on the front of the bus and turned the...

BLUEBELLS FOR MOM. This is a little story that probably spans the experience of many generations of children. ( another little lesson on the learning curve ). On this particular day our little group of kids decided that we would adventure from our base in Kingstanding and go and explore Barr...

Found this on a ' search ' and I think it more or less shows the type of Bullet Cigarette Lighter concoction mentioned on Post#484 of this thread.

" UP TOWN " another nice adventure. Being brought up in Kingstanding in its early years had a certain degree of a Rural feel to it, an occassional visit with Mom and Dad to Brum City Centre was a change and an exciting experience. We would start off by catching a ' 29 ' bus at Kingstanding and...

LIGHT THE BULLET. There was a period, probably around 1940 - 1950 ish, that the Bullet Cigarette Lighter became a favourite ' Foreigner ' ( term used to describe a personal, and sometimes slightly illegal piece of work carried out during working hours at the workplace ). These Cigarette...

A definite not to miss gathering of the family Children. ( Sunday evenings, the 1930's ). There wasn't a great many radio programmes available that were deliberately aimed at the Children during this period, but there was one that seemed to entice us kids and became a must on a Sunday night. "...

OVER THE GARDEN FENCE. Whispers to protect the Children. ( But the kids were already ahead of the game ). The kids had met up and were all playing in one of the back gardens. A couple of the Moms had come out and had started talking to one another ' over the garden fence '. This was of little...