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During WW2 we often drank OXO cubes in water. Very good nourishing and sustainable nutrition. None of your fancy sugar rich drinks in those days! Eddie

Alice Faye was the heroine in the original KING KONG. Eddie

Absolutely, Viv.

Paper sizes were known as crowns, double crowns and quads. The Picture Post advert would have been quad sheets. Probably around 28 or 32 sheets. Certainly an even number. A quad sheet was the largest that a bill poster would have handled.I cannot remember the size of a quad. Too long ago. Eddie

I am not sure that the British public was deferential to Queen Victoria. Like her or not, she was a huge part of their life. Having reigned for over 64 years, for the majority of the huge crowd shown in the photograph, she was the only monarch that they would have known. Pretty much the same as...

In the 1950's I had parked in Corporation Street (it was possible in those days). A police car pulled in behind me, only he did not, he ran into the back of me. His front bumper went under my rear bumper, and his lovely chrome bell fitted to the front of his car, went over the top of my rear...

Yes, John. Colin married a band singer by the name of Phillipa Worth. She had worked with the Colin Hulme Band at Tony's Ballroom, in Hurst Street. She was still alive the last time I heard. Eddie

John, in answer to you question. Colin died around 2004 from a brain haemorrhage. This was around a year after Colin and I had met up a couple of times. Eddie

Enjoy your day, and best wishes from Norfolk. Eddie

Yesterday my wife and I were in B & Q looking at different things. While we were standing by the wallpaper adhesives, we started chatting to a member from B & Q about wall paper. and I mentioned that my father used to use flour and water to paste onto wallpaper to hang it. This young lady...

Re: Johnny Hocken. Maybe this is better. Eddie

Johnny Hocken lived directly across the road from us, in Anderton Road. He was a fine pianist, but a very strange man. He lived with his mother, and was almost a recluse. I often tried to have a conversation with him, but the response was always just "Yes, or No". Not a great conversationalist...

Came across this piece of sad news from 1967. Mavis Taylor was a very fine singer, and had joined the Colin Hulme Band when the band opened the Locarno in Birmingham. Later Colin moved to Nottingham, and Mavis went with the band, travelling from Birmingham to Nottingham each evening, and...

The first post war issue of The Sports Argus (The Pink 'Un), was around 1947. At the time I was a 14 year old paperboy, working for Jellymans Newsagents in Stoney Lane, and near the corner of Stratford Road. Obviously the newspaper could not be printed until all the Saturday football results...

Sad to read the passing of Paul Daniels. He was a much joked about personality, but he was a very talented conjuror, and magician. I can say from my own experience that he was a very professional man. Not only did I work with him on a couple of occasions, but in 1974 we booked him for the...

Still better than a Hershey bar, Smudger!

Nothing to do with Birmingham Library, but I have just seen a film of the work that has been undertaken by Japan after the tsunami disaster. Not only have they rebuilt a new, and very formidable wall, but they have completely erased the old town, and built the foundations for a new town, 15...

Also remembering another old friend who died three years ago today. Joe Morello was the wonderful drummer with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Before joining Brubeck Joe was already well established in the world of jazz music, but he rose to fame with his drumming on 'Take Five'. He rhythmical...

Just to add my own tribute to Sir George Martin. History will always associate Sir George Martin with The Beatles, but he was much more than that. I do know that he graduated from the Guildhall School of Music on piano & oboe, the same instruments as our own daughter. He was already well...

............................., A boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl & the Waverley pen. Forgotten the first bit. Very famous. Seen on all railway stations. Eddie