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My wife grew up on a farm in a little town, which sits on the Cheshire/Staffordshire border, called Alsager. She talks about her uncle who used to eat Pobs. I must say, I'd never heard of them.

Remember the smell of the sawdust, wonderful !

My late first wife was from Denbigh and she always said "sailor's warning".

When left the army, in '68, I started work on the buses. I got into a hell of a mess with the money, I had been in Germany for three years and was used to metric currency so trying to get back to the medieval LSD was almost impossible.

"All round the Wrekin" is used here in South Cheshire too. We apply it to something that is un necessarily long - winded.

I remember, if someone told you to do something and you felt inclined to refuse, the standard reply would be, "I would if I could but I can't, so I woont".

I have'nt looked into it but there was a type of bottle, produced in Victorian times, by a firm called Cod. (The torpedo shaped one, with a glass ball in the neck).

Clearly the place had become an eyesore ! Remarkable to think that the area used to be part of the grounds of the Maypole pub.

Anybody notice that TV ad, the one with the Goths from the Midlands ? "Joy ? Oi thought yer said yer name was Rayven !"

Wops? That's enough to get a ban, methinks!

Thanks Lyn.

My Mother was born in Jan 1917. (Not only did her Dad survive the trenches but the influenza pandemic too). Mom avoided the 'flu, grew up in Irving St., and will be 103 at the end of this month. Sadly she now has vascular dementia & is in a care home but I often reflect on all that happened in...

I remember a small bottle of whiskey, bought from the outdoor, being called a quarten. As for your mention of" tip 'n run", wasn' t that another name for a game of "Tag" ?

Back in the 60s, drinking in the RWF club in Denbigh, I was told that, during the war the regt was nicknamed "The Brummie Fusiliers".

I think people, out of habit, blame a lot of the crime in their area on the nearest city or heavily populated area. When I was stationed in Woolwich, any of the many burglaries that took place there were said to have been done by East Enders. Here in Cheshire, when a Scouse accent is heard...

My mother was determined that I learned to swim and in the early 50s used to drag me to the awful cold Sparkhill baths. I too hated the place and learned nothing. When I started at Wheelers Lane school we were taken to Kings Heath baths, it was warmer and had a little, shallow pool for kids...

Sounds like you Sounds like you're in Gwynedd.

When my youngest son first heard that record he thought it was his uncle's voice. It does sound like my late brother.

Is Nick Knowles the one with that awful nasal voice ? Yeah I hate that accent. Is Doreen Tipton the woman I saw on youtube, delivering a scathing attack on our unloveable MPs ?

My wanderings away from Brum, since '57, perhaps leave me a bit out of touch. That being said, until I joined this site, I'd never heard the expression "Yam Yam". Re. Edifi's post. When I was posted to Woolwich, back in the late 70s, two doors down from us was a woman married to a soldier of the...