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hi yes what about life with the Lyons on a Sunday. Meet the Huggets Forces Favourites the only Pop Station we had. Sunday on the Light Programme. I always re-tuned to Down your way. Mike Jenks

hi as ive said before the BBC scrapped a whole host of wonderful programmes. Dick Barton Special Agent was replaced by some country yokels from Ambridge. Amazing how a No 1 programme could be sensored out by a Tory Government. A number of programmes were felt by the Government to be too...

Hi The Beacon Great Barr fabulous place. 1962 to 1965. must have seen every film. Superb Fish and Chip Shop the Scott Arms what else did you want. Mike Jenks

hi Where's Andy Pandy and Muffin the Mule plus Humphrey Lestocq with the Saturday show with that obnoxious string puppet Mr. Turnip (the invention of Joy Laurey) and his hapless stooge Humphrey Lestocq, known to all as HL. Mr Turnip ... mike jenks

Hi wow not sure of 50's I remember the various shapes in the 70's. Those hours of lining up and Top and Bottoming. fantastic pictures. I think these shapes from the 50's and styles live on for ever. It was a new dawn a new era. mike jenks

Hi Tv Photography not perfect but its a way out if you unable to get anywhere . Just a few I took of the London Marathon. Most Modern TV's can freeze frame. I photo via Digital Camera and Bobs your Uncle. I leave the freeze frame Symbol via Virgin. Its a horrible job to remove with Paint brush...

hi Yes the Bond Mini Car. Yes Bryant retired at Craythorne he must have been there Dec 58. I think Mends took over from Jan 59. It was a Period of Mends Chaos that last term. Left in a mess nobody had done our leaving reports or Certificates so we hastily bundled into an Office where a...

Hi Yes 7th out of 28 and still had to walk the plank. Never mind my Technical drawing skills and Metal work skills gave me a great start in the Technical world I entered. It still cant take away the despondency of rejection Dad was furious but there was no appeal I was gone and that was that. A...

Hi Another one last one before departure 4B1 Mike Jenks

Hi Im sure our second year at Craythorne Ave we had a Mr Lavender for French. I don't remember Martin there. Like his name he was a proper Gent. Still didn't make much improvement but I tried. Yes his initials were BL One can see my slide into oblivion Mike Jenks

hi yes there's a beast from the past. Martin the French teacher at Boulton Road. Clearly all this canning didnt work left virtually illiterate as far as the French Language was concerned. I was OK as far as the Dubois Family were but once the French Grammer kicked in I was dead in the Water...

Hi Yes the several weeks I lay there covered in plaster tape unable to move. Initial treatment for polio suspects. I remember those Lamps hanging from the ceiling. One day a large group of Drs came two nurses tore off the plaster tape. loads of prodding and pulling limbs. Then I heard the words...

Hi Yes two Super stores within touching distance. Both were awesome sadly for one reason and another only the New St Building survived. Happy day's Mike Jenks

Hi Sorry there were Hundreds of people packed into the various areas. Mike Jenks

Hi Yes things are gradually biting on this one. Severn Trent are diverting circa many millions of gallons of Birmingham Water which we don't use its hard Water under ground ours is from Wales via the huge Elan Valley complex, through Hockley Brook the River Tame and into the Trent. East Anglian...

Hi Continuing with this thread all contributors have unearthed the atmosphere of that decade. One could roam around disappear for the day turn up for tea without a murmur. Our pocket money was minimal 1/- 2/- an absolute fortune. Most bus fares were around 1d 2d. Other than the Coop divi 211790...

Hi Yes how the west was won. Still see those joins but they were spectacular days mikevjenks

hi happy days four superb snooker tables at the Top. Superb little bar staffed by a little guy called Dai. St Andrews or Villa Park in the Afternoon. Back to Yates for another session of Snooker. Then an evening at either Perry Barr or Hall Green Dogs. By 10-30 my Shoe came off for that 2/- for...

hi yes that's one in a million picture. well done mike jenks

HistoryThe flight was opened in December 1799 on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal. In 1929, the canal was renamed as the Grand Union Canal (on unification of a number of operators) and the decision was made to widen the Hatton stretch. In order to accommodate traders with heavy cargos of coal...