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  1. paul stacey

    happy christmas 2024 thread

    Thanks everyone for your seasons greetings!!!
  2. paul stacey

    Hagley Road

    Yes , Stokkie, had a few jars myself in the Ivy Bush , sad all the old pubs are gone!!!!!
  3. paul stacey

    Hagley Road

    My dad worked there n the fifties as week end doorman porter, met the famous Australian, Tennis star Rod Laver? he gave him some of his unused white tennis tops, which I wore for a few years. Any one remember the "Ivy Bush Pub"?
  4. paul stacey

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    My dear old Mom wore hers till about the mid fifty's!!!
  5. paul stacey

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    I remember Viv, and the head scarf, tied into a bow at the front, this was daily dress in late 40's and the fifty's...
  6. paul stacey

    happy christmas 2024 thread

    I wish to pass on all my family's, Seasons Greetings, and for a gentle 2025, to all!! , on this forum!! "HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE"!!
  7. paul stacey

    Mitchell's & Butler's Ltd.

    We did't know it then Stokkie, but we were witnessing, the very last, of the old Victorian customs that had come down the generations!!
  8. paul stacey

    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    I am sure, The Odeon was on Soho Road, my mom told me she lived there as Teenager,
  9. paul stacey

    Lewis's Department Store

    It must have been in the sixty's, Michael, I joined up in 62, rarely went back. Yes happy memories for me too.
  10. paul stacey

    Lewis's Department Store

    Do you know what year, the light display, of the deer is Viv, or was it every year. ? As I seem to remember, it well!!
  11. paul stacey

    Wrensons shops

    never took to them Richard, I suspect from the job described.
  12. paul stacey

    Wrensons shops

    I worked at Wrensons, as a Saturday boy, delivering and sweeping, and packing, "Glazed Cherries" (which I hated), in the Loft, burning box's, Bristol Road , Northfield, about 60 ,61, I was hoping someone on here, was there, and remembered me, I cannot remember any names now, but the girls were...
  13. paul stacey

    Valor Heating

    My only contact with Valor, was the only heater, on our landing, in winter, which supplemented, the only coal fire in the Lounge! "Happy days"!!
  14. paul stacey

    Mitchell's & Butler's Ltd.

    Good friend to have Mike!!
  15. paul stacey

    Mitchell's & Butler's Ltd.

    Slightly off thread! I haven't spoken of this for a very long time, ( thought people would think I was making it up ), but has any one a memory from the late 50's early 60's, of this!!! I was drinking, (Illegally), under 17, in the California pub in Weoley Castle, sitting by the door, incase of...
  16. paul stacey

    Mitchell's & Butler's Ltd.

    Does anyone here remember the lovely old dears in the snug, in yesteryear?? They sat together near the fire, curlers in headscarves on, drinking " barley wine and stout together, which they called "Black and Tans ", all night?? I now marvel at their constitutions (That generation were...
  17. paul stacey

    The Stonehouse, Selly Oak/Bartley Green/Weoley Castle border.

    I had my very first pint, in the Stonehouse, would be about 1961, it was a popular and wonderful pub in its day.
  18. paul stacey

    Vehicle Registration Numbers

    Thank you Janice!!
  19. paul stacey

    Electric Milk Floats

    When a kid, our milkman had n Orse and Cart.
  20. paul stacey

    Mitchell's & Butler's Ltd.

    I remember some of those adverts, really takes me back, I was an M&B, drinker, loved the black mild , started when I was 14. It is Dick Emery before he was famous, thanks for posting Alan!!
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