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Just came across a rather unusual, but great photograph, of L.M Region Coronation Pacific "City of Bristol" at Snow Hill station in B.R days, at the head of a Birkenhead-Paddington express train. Whether they went into New Street or not, they certainly went into Snow Hill!! Cannot work out how...

During the 60's & 70's I did a lot of cabaret work, mainly in Leicester at what was the Les Ambassadeurs Club (probably spelt that wrong!). We backed many top acts. including Matt Munro, Dave Allen, Bob Monkhouse, Tommy Cooper, Bert Weedon and others. Most of them were great to work with, and...

Whilst I am on this website, I think the following story will raise a few laughs. Chet Baker was a great American modern jazz trumpet player in the fifties, and until his death, I think, in the 1980's. In the later stages of his life, he worked mostly in Europe, and it was during this period...

Victor Feldman. I remember seeing him with Ronnie Scott, while I was still in the army, in a London jazz club. This would have been in 1953. I later saw him, again with Ronnie Scott, at a Birmingham venue, [possibly the old Warley, or Birmingham Odeon, or maybe the Town Hall]. This was just...

There was most definite a fun fair on the bombed Alfred Road site circa 1947. I remember I had to deliver Evening Despatch/Birmingham Mail newspapers there for a brief spell.. I also remember a circus on the New Street Big Top site. The other fun fair that I went to was on Hay Mills recreation...

There was a fun fair on the bomb site of Alfred Road & Beech Road after WW2. From 1946/48 my paper round took in the area, and I well remember walking past the fun fair during my rounds, and indeed visited the fair myself. However, I do not remember a circus. In the my Memories of a Birmingham...

A very tasteful pianist, Maurice. Delighted to see you chose a track featuring one of my all time favourite songs, My Romance. Now awaiting a photograph of John (oldbrit), standing outside the Lighthouse, so come on John. Eddie

A very tasteful pianist, Maurice. Delighted to see you chose a track featuring one of my all time favourite songs, My Romance. Now awaiting a photograph of John (oldbrit), standing outside the Lighthouse, so come on John. Eddie

Like Maurice, I did not have girlfriend problems, music was much more important to me. We had those that pined every day for the girl they left behind, and also saw a few broken relationships, caused by National Service. I enjoyed my army life, and once established in Germany, I played the drums...

When we joined up we were most definitely the 'Sprogs', with those that had been in longer, even a couple of weeks, would feel superior. So I guess we all loved to show off how much longer we had to do, and the less we had to do, the more superior we felt. We used to do silly things like shave...

There is a great old jazz song, often played in jazz clubs in days gone by. It is called BIRMINGHAM BOUNCE. Sadly it refers to Birmingham, Alabama

Mine was inside my suitcase lid. Of course you are right, why the hell did we do that, it never made life go any quicker, sometimes just the opposite? Eddie

For many obvious reasons, No real summer seaside holidays between 1940 & 1945. From 1942 till 1945, my summer holiday was reversed. Boarded away in the countryside I was allowed home for the Easter holiday, Summer holiday and Christmas holiday. So I would return from the country side to the city...

I still see people undertaking street, and roadside clearance, but these days I think it is mostly those given Community Service orders. Eddie

Very proud of all my old pals in the Royal Signals, Jan'52-Jan'54. There was the Korean war & Malaysian campaign. Lost a friend in Malaya. National Servicemen did a great job. Long may they be remembered.

Bhob.....As a professional musician for over 60 years, I have already posted many details about George & Cecil on this website. I knew both of them way before George opened his music store. Cecil was not in the least bit aloof, he just hated three chord 'pop musicians'

Hello Nico, Nice to read the story of your great uncles Hohner Harmonica. The button at the end means that it is a chromatic harmonica. In other words, it plays the sharp and flat notes as well as the ordinary notes, like the black and white keys on a piano. It really needs a specialist to clean...

Just heard the announcement of the passing of Peggy Spencer, aged 95. A most gracious lady. Peggy, and her husband Frank, led the Frank & Peggy Spencer Dance Formation Team. They were the greatest, winning every dance championship, and often appeared on the BBC "Come Dancing" programme. I think...

If I am truthful, and as a boy of seven when WW2 was declared, I had no real idea of war. Of course I knew that we were fighting the Germans, and our drawings at school depicted that, much the same as youngers do in current struggles. To hear the whistling of the bombs, the explosions, the red...

Watching the political show last evening, This Week, BBC 1 11.45pm. Very surprised to see Ann Nightingale, DJ, on the show. In the early 1960's we worked together on a music show, in London, for a week. In those days she was a vivacious, very funny young lady. Both of us looking much older...