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In the Dance Hall there was as well the opportunity for the ladies to open a conversation with a young man that they might be interested in and as yet had not had the opportunity. The announcement of the ' LADIES EXCUSE ME DANCE ' Now any lady could, without any embarrassment , approach her...

Reading your ' post ' farmerdave. Got me visualising that first approach used very often way back in the Dance Hall days. Young fella wants to have a dance with that well presented young lady that he's spotted standing at the side of the dance floor. Doesn't know her name. Makes his way over to...

Opening a conversation with strangers ( the changes as we grew up ). Approaching and opening a conversation with a stranger ( without prior introductions ) we tried to sort out some sort of ' title ' for that person and as I remember it these were and probably still are typical lead in openings...

1930's - 1940's . Here's another one of those kids home made play devises that showed up in this period. ( The elastic band gun shooter ). No more ' pretend ' Cowboy shoot outs, this was the real thing. We now had our own guns that we could shoot little elastic bands from and get ' hits ' on...

NICE TIMES. Here was a lovely time for children growing up in Brum. Here was the period when the kids participated in and were able to experience those special ' fresh air ' activities. The frequency of Motor Vehicles around the new Brum estates was fairly rare and the streets at this time were...

" CAN YOU TAKE ME IN PLEASE ". 1940's. Another tale about the kids. They had spotted that the new film showing round at the local Cinema had two of their favourite film stars in it and looking at the photos being displayed outside the Cinema it was going to be a really great film to watch...

The playground ' UP - AND - DOWNER ' . Occasionally School play ground disagreements, between a couple of the kids, would blow up ( a wrong word spoken maybe, something that had been simmering for a while or that one to many verbal dig would spark it off ) . Voices raised, bit of pushing and...

WE AINT BEGGING. ( and that's begging ). " Got any Gum Chum ". 1942 ish. About this time we kids began to see numerous American Soldiers ( Yanks ) around Kingstanding. They ( the Yanks ) proved to be, in the main, a very friendly and generous collection of new ' grown ups ' now in our area...

A TROLLEY FOLLY ( 1942 ish ) One of the lads got his Farther to build a ' trolley ' that could sit Four aboard. It really looked good and we were eager to try out a fully laden downhill run on it. One morning Six of us of us set off to the Old Oscott Lane hill ( A Country like sloping ditch...

Their first baby and a new little Brummie is here. For new Mom and new Dad a fast track learning curve and a new growing up experience begins. Some of new Dads thoughts : He's proud of his wife and thrilled at the arrival of his first little one. He's worked it out in his own mind as to how he...

Waste not, want not. Nearly every street had at least one Lamp Post which during the war became virtually redundant ( Black- Out ). A fair number of the kids around the estates used these lamp posts as ' climbing frames '. The Girls were likely to be seen using the lamp post as a ' swing ' by...

The kids helped out. ( Early 1940,s ). Im not sure how many schools across Brum were involved with helping out with ' War Effort Farm Cropping ' but I remember the Senior pupils at Peckham Road School were asked to volunteer to help out with harvesting the Potato crops at farms around Aldridge...

Waiting for Dad. ( Sketch ). The Conversation : Worro Charlie, I'm waiting for Dad , he's gonna bring me a bag of crisps out soon. Lo Frank, our old man's gonna get me a chocolate biscuit bar I think and he will get some jelly sweets for our Mollie and he usually gets a Nutbrown to take back for...

Oil Painting by Roy Blakey. ( 1985 ).

Oil Painting by Roy Blakey. ( 1986 ).

To StewieA : Not sure if this is of any help but if the company name you are looking for is " George Ellison Ltd " there is an existing Forum thread (12 Posts ) under the thread heading " George Ellison and Tufnol ". Photo from thread incl.

Cracking sketch farmerdave. Love it. Keep em coming.

Probably not the earliest of childhood memories but as a young person you couldn't help but remember your first visits to the pre-war Bull Ring. What might you have seen and experienced. The Escapologist performer struggling to get out of his ' straight jacket ', ropes and chains. His hat...

Brought up in Brum ? What do you believe might have been your earliest childhood memory ? Bit difficult this one but I guess a lot of folk have tried to pin down what they believe is their earliest memory. I would guess the setting or story of anyone's believed earliest memory might not...

That was a nice period when the existing ' Six day working week ' started to become ' The Five day working week '. On the Saturday mornings it allowed the Dads to do those extra job bits around the house or help or join the ' Missus ' on a shopping run. It was great for the kids too because Dad...