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Don't know how far back your're going, but my first car, a 1952 side-valve Morris Minor, didn't even have a heater! It was possibly the most uncomfortable car I ever had, but it was at least mechanically reliable, and ended its day being driven (by me) into the rear of an Austin Cambridge right...

Hi OM, I just traced your route on my 1972 Lucas Atlas of Great Britain. Basically, you were following the A34 and the A40, a route to London I also knew quite well. Way, way back I had relatives who lived in the Hanger Lane area, and I remember my old man driving us down there in his Ford 100E...

Very nicely turned out, I must say. On a sad note, Linda Semp, who used to organise the Sunday afternoon sessions at the PoW and at other venues, passed away recently. She was a very keen and enthusiastic promoter of amateur live music in Birmingham. The main problem with Sunday afternoons at...

There's a lot of info and photos on the net about Paul Cashmore, William Cashmore, and Price & Cashmore, all gun-makers in and around Birmingham in the 19th century. From what I gather, Australia was W Cashmore's major market for his shotguns, and I also have a vague memory of reading that Annie...

Another musical connection at GD was Kipper Print (full name Harold Celestine Print) who was a past Chairman of West Bromwich Operatic Society. I liked old Kipper, whose chemistry lessons were usually quite entertaining. He was also very easily distracted - as he'd been in the RFC and RAF in...

Ref: the view of Town Gate on Post 1445, there was a small petrol-station on the left side of the road, just before the gate. The pumps had overhead hoses that went across the pavement. I've got a very vague memory that someone connected with the petrol-station once posted something on this...

As far as I'm aware there is still a charge (£1, I believe) on Sundays, if you visit by car. When I was a nipper we'd just sneak in through a hole in the fence or hedge somewhere, and avoid the 3d charge. G

You must have been watching...... G

I'd forgotten about this thread. I loved The Odeon, usually where I'd take my girl-friends for a first (and usually last) date. The last film I recall seeing there was 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade', the one with David Hemmings and Trevor Howard, in about 1969. When did it cease being a...

Kaolin & Morphine mixture is a mainstay of our medical cabinet! It works! After an evening's over-indulgence, two teaspoonfuls of K&M the next morning works wonders. As does Milk Of Magnesia (liquid, not the tablets) if you need to, er, get things moving. This year has been very bad for me...

The Ratpan was always The Upper Grounds, never any other name as far as I know. Billy Beer was still the landlord for a few years after the end of the War, and one of his barmen was Harry Harman, a friend of my parents. As I said in an early post on this thread, my dad was a regular there for...

Radiorails, I think that (unfortunately) your quote will be totally lost on the majority of posters to this Forum.... Max Bialystock

The so-called 'celebrity' TV chefs aren't promoting the food, just themselves. The only TV chef I ever thought worth watching was Keith Floyd, who produced proper, wholesome dishes that didn't look like works of modern art. You can blame all the current TV nonsense on Fanny Cradock! I had a...

I just checked, and see that the Berni brothers started the chain, their first restaurant opening in Bristol in 1955. There were about 150 Berni Inns by the mid-1970's, including some in Japan, which came as a surprise to me! Getting British working families out of their kitchens and into...

I think the first Berni Inns dated back to the late 1950's. I left school in 1963 and I remember a family outing to a Berni Inn, I think in Lichfield, when I was still at school. Can also remember, much later, going to a Berni Inn in York, and there was a long wait for a table. We waited, as my...

Keith Floyd, led a turbulent life. He had a restaurant in South Devon in his later years but was rather exclusive - I never dined there. In his early days he opened three restaurants in Bristol, and all went bust. We went to the one in Clifton, Bristol, called 'Floyd's Bistro', only to find...

And at 81 I now eat what I enjoy! Quite right, Maurice! Same here. Not so long ago a young GP told me 'Never use olive oil. Use the spray cooking stuff'. Like Hell I will. Can't live without olive oil, me. My old and long-since retired GP (from Goa) told me once that 'if you can't eat and drink...

We still eat Marmite, Maurice, but sadly not on dripping....and you didn't see the amount of dripping Mom shovelled onto the toast! Illustrative of our change in eating habits - much less red meat that 60+ years ago, and much more fish. I did once buy a tub of dripping from somewhere, and it was...

Marmite was/is definitely made from what's left over after brewing beer. The main factory was (maybe still is) in Burton-on-Trent, which was noted for brewing (and still is, thankfully). I had a customer (a large steel foundry) right opposite the Marmite factory on Wellington Road, and the smell...

Old Mohawk is correct - the railway was in Perry Hall, not Perry Barr Park. IIRC it ran through the trees and was to the left of the Perry Avenue entrance into the Park. I have a (very) vague memory of there being an accident connected with the railway. G