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Sorry to say but this seems to be "The New Green ". We live in Gippsland, Victoria Oz and on a one hour trip today we passed two new gates sporting this green. My wife pointed out to me that a shopping centre in the town of Cranbourne features a huge drive-in entrance is right in your face with...

Can anyone help with where L H Farmiloe were in Sparkbrook. I was born in 1938 so maybe they were gone before my time. Thanks in anticipation and Cheers Tim.

Great story Good enough. We found our bit of family scandal when I had a bit of a win on the pools in the 50's and shouted my parents a European Tour. Turned out that his mother was a widow and didn't marry for a couple of years until after Dad's birth. Apparently it was an open secret in the...

Hi Leona, missed your visit to this site. With regard to my father he was born in Brill , Bucks. He is on the 1911 census there at Lays Yard under the name of Guntripp. Long story, you say your daughter was the daughter of Andrew Turner, is he no longer alive or was that the slip of the pen. As...

A few of the pubs I drank in had either a Ladies Lounge or a Snug. Most of my drinking was of a social nature and in mixed company. Many will say that drinking was a social pastime but some of the pubs were for serious and hard drinking and not where Ladies should or would want to go and maybe a...

I'm in the 75% of drivers who are in the group of being above average. To my surprise I was recently fined $317.00 and incurred 3 demerit points for driving at 53 kph in a 40 kph zone. As it was during an off peak time and I feel there was either no other traffic or I was going with the general...

Read this to the wife and she said that we now know the ins and outs of the game now. Sounds as if it were scripted by Abbot and Costello!

Did Austin make planes before WWII, got a feeling they may have.

We have a similar statue in Melbourne for Mathew Flinders and I always wonder how they managed to do all those things with only half of a very small boat, or am I missing something. Cheers Tim

Think you may be right there R R, we had a lady warden in Tillingham St, think her name was Edna or the like. After the war she always dressed in clothes of the same style and color (complete with Berry ) but without the badges. Maybe the War gave her the reason for living, who knows. Cheers...

Nice bit of manure to the right, should be ripe for the compost bin !

Hi Eric, I too have strong memories of using these oldies to go with my mates to the Lackey Hills in c1948 and our disappointment when the closed in models turned up. Cheers Tim.

Looks up to no good if you ask me ! Cheers Tim

Nice one Stitcher, always glad to see Corporation Street which to me always felt like the essence of Brum. There was always something going on. My Dad was the head waiter at the New Victoria Hotel for some years from 1946 and I seem to have spent hours looking down on the passing parade of life...

I bet a Quid that it is a Roman road, saw a section in The Forest of Dean in the 1950's and it was the spitting image of this. I remember I was skeptical due to the width. It was pointed out that it only had to be possible for three Legionnaires to march three abreast and they were on the small...

Hi Alexander , sorry to say can't recall your family. As I said in a post last night I must have lived in my own self centered bubble. In my memory's minds eye I think I could go right to no 40 as I lived in the street for 23 years and had a paper round which included the street and locales...

We had a Foster Bros in Ladypool Rd Sparkbrook and all the comments made in previous postings also applied. I was most offended when the salesman called short trousers "knickers. Can only remember going there once but the memory stuck as not being very with it. Maybe it was because of a...

Think it is a Ford Consul, but wouldn't bet on it.t Think Alex went up market c1958 by opening a shop near Cape Hill selling Fleur-de-Ley pies before opening in the city. When we were in B'ham in 1974 we were in the arcade opposite what was left of Snow Hill Stn. Royal Arcade? (seniors moment !)...

Do you think that the boulder is being guarded in the event of an attack by The Boers ? Sensible replies only. Cheers Tim

I always try to find the good bit when hit with these sad bits of news. Guess in this instance it is that Eddie seems to have lived a very full and active life and was well thought of by his peers and we his fellow members. R.I.P. Eddie.