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Re: Birmingham History WAS IT A " PORKIE ". ( 1942 - 1943 ish ) . As kids one of our roaming / adventure areas was the open fields of " Old Oscott Hill ", Birmingham. At this time there were fields on both sides of the road with banked hedge rows and road side ditches. The only buildings...

Re: Birmingham History As you say Paul. Numerous buses and a huge variety of ' Cross City Routes' available. For local City travelling it would almost have been a ' Sin ' at that time to ' Lust' after a Car. What a cracker anyway. No initial purchase cost of a Car. No Car repair costs...

Re: Birmingham History NICE TIMES. Going back in time a little, the natural living locations of many extended families would be found to be ' Living close to one another '. Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins would be all living within a few streets of one another or at worst a short...

Re: Birmingham History WERE GETTING THERE. ( If you are enthusiastic about Television Adverts you might want to look away now ). 1947 ish. Early Black and White Television is being viewed, thanks to the BBC, in ever increasing homes. ( Marvellous even though there was very little viewing...

To oldMohawk. I've to-day posted a painting/photo ( IPad style ). Bearing in mind the problems I've encountered with a mixture of up-side " thumbnails " etc, etc. I tried this latest photo post to the Forum by bringing up the original painting/photo from my IPad and then re-photoing this image...

Re: Birmingham History We played the ' Jews Harp ' ( ouch ). There was a period ( around the 1940's ) when a bit of a musical ' fad ' arrived up our end of Brum. Some of us kids had tried the mouth organ ( with limited achievement) and some had even ventured into trying to play the piano ( no...

A typical happy holiday marriage abroad. Panting by Roy Blakey. 2012.

Re: Birmingham History A TRUE BRUMMIE. Historically it is said that a True Cockney would be " One born within the sound of the Bow-Bells of St Mary-le-bows church in Cheapsiide,London ". Here's one to ponder then. What might our our equivalent be for a " True BRUMMIE " ?

Re: Birmingham History The Code. Hopefully posting now a photo of the back of that letter.

Re: Birmingham History The Code. Hopefully posting now one side of that letter

Re: Birmingham History THE CODE. Kingstanding ( 1940 ). Mom's and Dad's gathered to make the decision regarding whether to allow their children to be evacuated or not. The decision in General was made to accept the evacuation. My Dad suggested to me that when I sent any letter home that I...

Thanked, Thankee Mohawk . That's more like it. Good Man.

Evening moHawk. I did a little experiment only yesterday . I ' rotated ' the photo stored in my IPad (180 degrees). Was tempted to copy this and send it to-day but I wasn't too sure what the out come might have been so as you see I've posted the ' original ' IPad photo. See what happens now...

This previous posting is identical to the original ( No 1 post ). BUT. As experimented with and tried out by ' oldMohawk ' it appears that IPad viewers interested will need to ' tap ' on to the upside down thumbnail picture to expose the full screen picture ( the right way up ). For Laptop...

Since I no longer have the original painting I am unable to take another IPad photo. So using the original IPad photo I try again to post it on this thread.

Sunset painting ( Post No 1 ). Apologies to one and all. Cannot correct the failure of the ' posted photo '

To oldMohawk. I will try contacting ' admin '. I believe that the presentation as it stands is not suitable for the Forum and can only confuse any ' viewers '. Thank you again.

To oldMohawk. Sunset painting problem ( loss of full size painting image ). I wonder if it is possible that the ' edited ' exercise might have something to do with it. It seemed to operate OK previously.

Sunset painting. Is anyone else having a problem bringing up the painting from the " Attached Imagies " ?

To mhemery. The geezer ' topping up ' the plastic cup. Cheers Michael.