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I can remember two branches of Drucker's, a small one off New Street, and wasn't there a branch in the shopping centre below the station? They used to have very elaborate and alarming-looking cream cakes! I know that it's a different sort of place now.

I can only remember a coffee shop on the first floor of Rackhams. Once when I was there, they had ladies modelling clothes, which seemed like something from the 1950s (it was the mid-80s).

I often used to go into the Kardomah, Lady P. It was near Rackham's, I think? In the 1980s, cappuccino seemed really exotic!

The school archive is here https://www.saltleyschoolarchives.co.uk/ I've only had a quick look - some very good photos.

I'd never heard of this actress untill seeing "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner," in which she played the hero's girl friend, on television last night. She had a very sad life...

Of course, climbing the stairs of a tram, you risked someone catching a glimpse of your ankles!!

I'm sure I remember a glass case with a black dress or suit (1950s?) which was near what I think of as the side entrance. It's all different now, but this entrance was round the corner from the main one.

I think the crab ought to have a Facebook page! There is something frightening about large stuffed animals, I think.

Thanks for the photos, ellbrown. I think my dream was based on them and similar...must have blocked the frightening crab out of my mind, alan!!

I love penguins - wish I could remember them. The crab sounds nightmarish. Ages ago I had a dream about a lot of stuffed animals, which was probably based on these buried memories. The dinosaur used to terrify me, even as an adult. The pterodactyl was quite something as well.

I was a few years after you, and quite agree about miss Thompson. To this day I quote her about once a week!

I've got a very vague memory of stuffed animals, but don't remember a crab. Sounds awful!

I wonder what the GP stood for? Anyway, it was superb!

I didn't realise that, Mike. He does some rather odd programmes (like the tapeworm one), but I'd assumed he was a GP who'd become a media doctor.

Yes, that was strange. I was also thinking that Michael Mosley, who after all is a doctor, to be commenting on the Victorian diet.

The arrival of the Irish brother and sister (who was wearing false eyelashes!!) was interesting. My grandfather and family came over in 1900, and already had relatives in Birmingham who had come over before, so I assume had work to go to. In the programme, the pair arrived with no money at all...

I didn't spend as many hours in Greys as I did in Lewis's, but looking at the photos, wish I'd explored it more. Lewis's always seemed more interesting and organised. Was there a young person's clothes department in Greys called Way In? Or am I thinking of another shop?

It was interesting. Did the children really have nothing to eat all day? If so, how safe or ethical was that? The man with the amputated leg was really brave to use a "Victorian" one. And the man who did his back in....

Braces don't seem popular theses days. Perhaps there's an association with red braces as worn by Yuppies in the 1980s?

Richie, I think I can remember shoes like that. I had to look up the trousers becasue I hadn't heard of the label, and found this: https://www.soul-source.co.uk/soulforum/topic/44014-fashion-victims/?page=2 Does that sound right? I've seen programmes about Northern Soul, and was very impressed...