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A funny old Christmas. We live abroad so this is the first time we have not met up with family and friends at Christmas since we left the UK. However the local community here is getting arround things. We meet up in the lanes and on doorsteps to socially distant exchange greetings and presents...

I worked in Bywaters during school holidays 1969/1970. A great food producer w I worked at Bywaters during school holidays in 1969/1970. Great fun and a great place to work. And yes their Pork Pies were superb. Bywaters was an old school company that kept an eye on quality from what I saw at...

Growing up in Brum from an Irish background one of our signature dishes was good old bacon and cabbage with mashed swedes and potato's. I went against the grain in my house as I loved to douse the whole thing in HP sauce. Still do...

I love a packet of pork scratchings with a pint of bitter. I believe that it has always been something local to us? I once asked for a packet of scratchings in a pub in Accrington. The barmaid looked at me as if I was taking the piss. Are scratchings a Brum/Black country thing?

I remember the Sons of Rest pavillion in Small Heath Park. It was opposite the bowling greens. In the late 60's myself and a couple of mates became interested in playing bowls after the green keeper showed us how to play the game. We often went there on summer evenings for a game or two and got...

It was a great Saturday job. We went to the Tysley depot for 0800 in 1969/70 Worked all day for a couple of quid. Was still at school then and this paid for a very good night out when a pint cost two shillings. That was the time when a tallish fifteen year old was easily served in most pubs...

Corona Pop Saturday delivery job

The Man from The Pru...

Looking at this pic of the part demolition of this storied pub makes me wonder if it is being dismantled rather than being roughly demolished. The brickwork on this pub, particularly on the second story and chimneys was superb. Anyone know the score around its demolition?

This is so very sad. Leaving aside the UB40 connections, this was one of the few authentic street corner inner city pubs left in Birmingham. In recent years it stood alone in what had become a bit of a wasteland. What stories it could have told. I have warm memories of a warm and welcoming place...

I remember the saying "A job in the town" being used to describe something good or special. It probably came from the fact that if you worked in the city centre (always called "Town" in Brum) you were a bit "white collar" rather than getting dirty in a factory.

Those were the days when employers provided sports and social facilities for their employees. Very little of that around these days.

Al Jackson worked for the Prudential, eventually becoming a trainer. I also worked for the Pru and attended one of his courses at the Pru's regional office opposite St Phillips Cathedral in the early eighties. He was a great trainer and quite a character. I also worked with Gerry Freeman's...

" Round the Wrekin" and "Bottle of Pop" were common Brummie saying when I was growing up. In the film 'Le Mans 1966' Christian Bale playing the Brummie racing driver Ken Miles uses both both of these expressions . His Brummie accent was pretty good as well. At one point in the film his son...

I don't believe the Woodman is coming down but it seems that the Eagle & Tun is. From the look of the image this pub falls within the new station's footprint.

Fascinating stuff. Moor St must be a good half mile at least from the old station opposite the Woodman. I had no idea of the ultimate size of this development. It does not appear to centre on the Curzon St site at all as I had thought.

I was of the impression that the platforms and concourse of the new station would be behind and to the side the old station structure including the area where the Eagle and Tun now stands. If things are to be centred on Moor St why all the site clearance around Curzon St and compulsory purchase...

The huge "Aluminum Shed" pictured was the old BR parcels depot.I worked there for a period during the mid seventies when it was a thriving place. Indirectly this job led me into a rewarding and much travelled career in Global Logistics that took me through to retirement. I have very fond...