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Alan, I remember Goldbergs very well, and one item I recall was a pair of green and white striped pyjamas with white borderie anglais trim, the legs were quite short finishing just below the knee, they were about 9/l1d old money and I thought they were very trendy. I also remember Heath's China...

I remember Hawkins just up from Burlington Hall, it had coloured glass squares in the windows, red, yellow and orange, I never liked shellfish but my mother, eldest sister and husband did, and they often used it. When my mother was a little girl about 10 years old her dad was a bookie and used...

Eric, so sorry to hear of the loss of your companion Sam, it is always very sad to lose a much loved pet, as others have said try to remember the love and happy times you shared.

Wilton Street ran from 146 Gt. King Street to Carlyle Road, B19. so definitely St. George's and quite a fair way from Six Ways, Aston. Hope this is of some help.

Great to have had your company for the last 5 years Eric, it will be 12 years in August since I joined.

Interesting tale Alan, but the cinema was the Astoria not the Adelphi.

Lynne sorry Bella was not your family - but at least she can be ruled out.

I had been racking my brains to remember the 3rd child, I had a brainwave this morning, I think it is Sheila. I knew the family very well, the parents were Ev and Ron.

Alan I hope you are feeling better, I have had a new battery fitted - so far no trouble. I never ceased to be amazed by your posts you seem to have worked or known almost every district of Birmingham.

There was a family named Carless who lived at the back of my grandparents in New John Street in the 1940/1950s, the only name I recall is Bella who was the mother, at that time Bella would have been in her 60s or maybe 70s.

I used to work in Highfield Road, I think it was No.18 a firm of Consulting Engineers, Calthorpe Estate owned all the land round there and were very strict on what you were allowed to do, I remember when our offices required a new roof and we had to use Welsh slate on the stipulation of C.E...

GazC, just been reading this thread my sister lived in Yew Tree Road, for many years next door to Mr.Cox the barber, Neil Cooper is my nephew and now lives in Belgium, next door the other side was David, Anita and ??? Stokes.

Re Silver Cross prams, the daughter of a friend of mine aged about 18 and unmarried bought a Silver Cross pram for when she hopefully married and had a family, it was some 15/16 years later when she married and had a baby and finally got to use the pram. She said every time she went out people...

Alan, I got my g/g/grandfather's Will by going to the Probate Office in the old Lewis' building, I had to fill in a form with the date of death etc., I had to pay £6 or £7 and they forwarded it on to Leeds, it came back quite quickly 2 weeks I think. The staff were very helpful.

Thanks Mohawk for the information, I could see they were celebrating and a mixed age group, some dancing, it must have been marvellous to have been there. Wonder why there was no flags or bunting, perhaps they had just heard the good news.

It was liquorice root Smudger, it used to leave a yellow mouth, I think most chemists sold it, we used to get ours from Timothy Whites on the corner of Phillips Street and Newtown Row. This was in the days of sweet rationing, ugh the very thought of chewing it now.

Old Mohawk that is a great photo, I wonder why there is such a large crowd, no flags so don't think it was the end of the war, although it looks as though it was taken late 1940s or early 1950s.

Does anyone remember a drink called Green Godess I mentioned to my son that his grandma liked it, we searched the internet but couldn't get a definitive answer to what it was, I thought it was some sort of cocktail but a number of hits said it was absinthe, but I can't imagine my mom liking...

Thanks Lyn for your encouragement, it isn't impossible, I have one of the Rose & Crown, Lichfield Street, (later Corporation Street) I think, which my g.g. grandfather ran in 1845, don't know the date of the photo though, which John Houghton found for me, and posted on the forum.

Thanks Mike for highlighting my grandparents house, I do remember it as I was about 10 or 11 when they died. It must have been a very small pub, only one room downstairs but it had a large bay window complete with window seat which I liked to sit on. My grandma did most of her cooking in the...