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Well back again . Neville I'm sure I knew Keith Abbot as Willie and believe that as a youngster he had polio and used swimming as a aid to his recovery. He became very good at it and I remember seeing him in a schools competition at Moseley Rd. Baths. He became a hero to a lot of us when he...

Hi, sorry to not get back, been buying and selling houses but settlement is next Monday then perhaps we will be back to somewhere near normal. Long story ,short as they say! Cheers Tim.

You must be a very nice person, wish you well. Cheers Tim

Sorry pressed wrong button, will come back tomorrow as am falling asleep after a few hectic days Cheers Tim

Well young Neville what can I say about this blast from the past. Bobby Pritchard was my mentor when I went to HTS as he was a term ahead of me and sort of took me under his wing, or lead me astray. He and I were in a funny little club who's after school challenge was being able to unlock every...

My Uncle Chris made my Mom a new prop, he was a retired commissionaire and I think it took him a couple of weeks to hand saw it in his spare time from a long plank. We had the one and he and his wife had the other. He lived in Smallheath and we brought it home to Sparkbrook on the number 8 bus...

Though I lived in Sparkbrook can't remember ever going to The Tyseley. It can't have been because it was a flea pit as when I was a kid I went to The Olympia in Ladypool Rd (The Lane to us locals!). Cheer Tim

Happy memories!

When I was about 15 my brother -in-law undertook to create a rockery for my parents in our Tillingham St garden. He was a fireman when they did a 24 hour on shift and 24 off and like many of the fellow fireman he worked a "fiddle" or part-time job on his rest days, in his case a gardener. A few...

Whoops ,eating dinner and pressed the wrong button! Signed something to the effect that if the problem could be fixed at the army's expense I was in. It couldn't and I didn't. Two of my mates were in the RAF, one applied for overseas and the other for home postings, you guessed it, homeboy to...

Failed on medical conditions so no N/S. In error I was originally graded as A1 and was about to sign up for the 9years ,out after 3, when I was recalled to be told the reclassification. I still signed something to the eff

Hi Brian, I may be very wrong ( often am!). I left Golden Hillock Rd. School in 1952(?). I think I recall a Mr. Mitchell had red wavy hair and wore a blue pinstriped suit, also ex RAF. Like the story about throwing the hammer, must have been a low flying Hun! Cheers Tim

Wow some of my old buttons pushed tonight! I was kitted out at the Scout Shop when I joined the St Agatha's troop in Sparkbrook. I also bought a lot of gear from Zissmans in the early 1950 's. I had a claret red corduroy draped jacket which set of my pink shirt (styled exclusively for Frankie...

Can only remember going to Yates in Corporation Street on one occasion I was in my late teens and was on a pub crawl with a mate who was home from a tour in the merchant navy. We had lunch at a pub near The Bull Ring then went to The Odeon to see The Vikings. We were politely asked to leave...

Doesn't the Rover look such a classic when compared with the BMC offerings. Mind we have to remember the price difference.

I was going with a girl who's father was foreman on the prototype production line for the Mini. The only thing I remember from the few conversations I had with him concerned the tires for the small wheels. He said that when Dunlop were approached and asked if they could produce a tire that would...

Well done Tom, your mom always knew you make it. Cheers to you both .Tim

Happy Christmas James, but what has happened to Santa he looks upside down. Did Nanny read the pattern a wee bit wrong ? Cheers Silly Old Tim.

Thanks for the photos, you're A Brick. Cheers Tim

They don't make them like that anymore !