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That's how we used to eat them, but I think we used a straight pin! In one of Nigel Slater's books, he describes his father eating a pomegranate with a pin - I thought: well, didn't every one?!

And all those amazing hats!

Yes, I really liked maxis. You must be very adept to have altered a coat, Viv. That's tailoring!

Around 1970 I had a maxi dress from C & A for a school friend's 18th birthday party. It had a cream background with a pattern of broken-up circles in orange and gold, and the top was a bit smocked. It cost £3.00, which was probably a lot for my parents in those days (at the time I didn't realise...

I should have said in the Piccadilly Arcade.

I can remember two branches of Drucker's, a small one off New Street, and wasn't there a branch in the shopping centre below the station? They used to have very elaborate and alarming-looking cream cakes! I know that it's a different sort of place now.

I can only remember a coffee shop on the first floor of Rackhams. Once when I was there, they had ladies modelling clothes, which seemed like something from the 1950s (it was the mid-80s).

I often used to go into the Kardomah, Lady P. It was near Rackham's, I think? In the 1980s, cappuccino seemed really exotic!

The school archive is here https://www.saltleyschoolarchives.co.uk/ I've only had a quick look - some very good photos.

I'd never heard of this actress untill seeing "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner," in which she played the hero's girl friend, on television last night. She had a very sad life...

Of course, climbing the stairs of a tram, you risked someone catching a glimpse of your ankles!!

I'm sure I remember a glass case with a black dress or suit (1950s?) which was near what I think of as the side entrance. It's all different now, but this entrance was round the corner from the main one.

I think the crab ought to have a Facebook page! There is something frightening about large stuffed animals, I think.

Thanks for the photos, ellbrown. I think my dream was based on them and similar...must have blocked the frightening crab out of my mind, alan!!

I love penguins - wish I could remember them. The crab sounds nightmarish. Ages ago I had a dream about a lot of stuffed animals, which was probably based on these buried memories. The dinosaur used to terrify me, even as an adult. The pterodactyl was quite something as well.

I was a few years after you, and quite agree about miss Thompson. To this day I quote her about once a week!

I've got a very vague memory of stuffed animals, but don't remember a crab. Sounds awful!

I wonder what the GP stood for? Anyway, it was superb!

I didn't realise that, Mike. He does some rather odd programmes (like the tapeworm one), but I'd assumed he was a GP who'd become a media doctor.

Yes, that was strange. I was also thinking that Michael Mosley, who after all is a doctor, to be commenting on the Victorian diet.