Search results

Kings Heath Woolies had a sort of tandem machine, one side was peanuts and the other held hot cashews. I loved the cashews, still do !

We've got a seperate post office and WH Smith's here in Sandbach too. The Post Office has three windows and is busy, whereas Smith's seems to be in decline. No doubt amazon and particularly kindle, is responsible for that.

Further to my personal tales of dental woe. Around 1953, when I was about 12, my Dad took me to a dentist in Kings Heath. This fool attempted to extract a tooth but broke it instead. I was sent home with a broken tooth and spent a weekend in agony before being taken back to have the job done...

Having read that article, I just KNOW this bloke's going to get away with it !

There was a great chippy in Highters Heath Rd., when I was in my youth, called Everetts. The best of it was my kid brother worked there, so I got my fish 'n chips buckshee !

That's the sort of tower I was thinking of but the Chester one looks distinctly Victorian.

I'm inclined to agree Eric. I've seen a shot tower in Chester and that is a stand-alone building.

And then you joined the army mate. I bet you were more use to your country than that lot were and I bet you had more self pride.

'Er Indoors watches CTM and likes it more than I do. I do have one eye on it though, for the gorgeous Trixie, played by Helen George. Unlike Smudger, who will, no doubt find himself marking time for going off thread, I keep out of trouble because Helen is a Brummie !

I remember it being a cold wet day, with most of the grownups staring at an interminable cermony on the telly. We would shout in to them, "ennythin' 'appnin?" to which would come the reply "noooo !". A stage was set up in our road and a bored - looking dance troupe, (Betty Barnes I think) did a...

Left school at 15 and was employed by B'ham co-op as a trainee manager (errand kid) in No 6 Grocery, on Moseley road. Left to join the army at sixteen and a half.

Looks like a nice big house, I bet he's got friends in high places. I wonder how long it will be before he gets that grey utilities box shifted too ?

Fantastic film ! There's so much to see for vintage vehicle enthusiasts and historians. Considering the year the film was made, the Hall of Memory looked like it had been there for a hundred years.

Yes, I remember the pink cleaning paste, less messy than Vim. It had a nice smell too.

I remember once when the Brylcreem machine in Kings Heath baths developed a fault and dispensed the stuff without money being inserted. It wasn't long before the news got out and all the kids were running around plastered in the stuff.

Thanks folks, for the replies on this subject. Baz.

Think you'll find it's Warley woods mate.

Alright, smartarse, how do you keep your shower cap dry ?

I can see his next victim, see the geezer with the tree behind him ?

I remember Huss and Rock Salmon when I lived in SE London, in the late 70s. I'd never heard of it but accepted it because it was what the natives ate. It was OK. Do chippies in Brum still serve Roe ?