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Had forgotten about those blinds. Worked at a shop for a year and had the pleasure of pulling it down each morning and putting it up at end of trading. The art was flicking it over the sort of top dead centre. Cheers Tim

When I saw the title I thought of Joseph Locke !

Can't help feeling the fiery cross looks a bit KKK . Anybody know the real symbolic meaning. Cheers Tim

This is one of those times when several posts have very personal memories. This is my old parish church and played quite a big part in the life of our family. I wouldn't say we were goody goodies it was just part of what we did. I went to Sunday school, Boy Scouts, Church Lads Brigade, Alter Boy...

Hi pjmburns, that's how our entry was at Tillingham St. Sparkbrook, built about that time. Fortunately the gates into the rear gardens were at an angle of 45 degrees. When I bought my motor scooter I did not take into account that it was to live in a shed in our back yard and this angle allowed...

I thank You all for the memories. I would add getting home late to a dried up meal which Mom left on top of the saucepan on the gas stove, no microwave ovens. I was one of those kids with the taped up lens on my glasses to make my "lazy eye " correct itself ( it didn't work ). When I failed the...

Bliley Stitched you have lived a varied life. The weird thing I must have been at or about the same place as you at some time. It's a bit of a worry ! Cheers Tim

Think it maybe Vivienne, used to travel up Wolford Rd to Golden Hillock Rd. School for a couple of years by bus or on foot and in later years did a bit of courting there about. Then again I seem to have lived a bit of a tunneled life, still do.

It was used as some part of the munitions program during the WW11 remember seeing the shell cases moving along the conveyor line past the open doorways one summer when going up Conway Rd with my sister. Later used the skating rink when I was about 12/13 years old. Remember coming off the rink...

Born and bred in Sparkbrook, 1938/61 and whilst I've always thought of it as "Residential " I realize that there were many small factories scattered throughout the area. As kids we would help ourselves to goodies from skips just inside the doorways, which must have been placed there for pickup...

Ah the old "Bath on the Wall" we had the spare bedroom converted into a bathroom in the early 1950's. Mom and Dad went 50/50 with the lady owner of the house we rented under some government home improvement scheme. It must have made a big improvement in our lives and I wonder what became of the...

Oh Dear, makes you count your blessings. Tim

It's a Tardis landing beacon, don't blink !

Nice picture of two "Op shops" ! Cheers Tim

My memories of the Market Hall would be about 1950/52. One of my weekly jobs was to go to the stall run by Ada Vickerstaff. To get there I would catch the bus from Ladypool Rd , Sparkbrook which ran up Stratford Rd, through Camp Hill, Deritend and I alighted at Moor St. I would cut across The...

As my old Mom used to say " Class will out".

Great improvement, brought back a bit of style (classic!). Cheers Tim

I read through this site and was quite envious of all these wonderful hobbies and interests that you wonderful folk have been sharing and of the pleasure you get. As I thought about it I wondered why I was missing out, what had gone wrong with my life ! Somewhere in the '80's I gave up my well...

Well that bus in #69 is about the ugliest I've seen. Not only that it is about the least happy one I've seen. No wonders they were taken over.

From memory only I think anyone was welcome at any of the Co-op stores which often had slightly lower prices across the range of goods sold. As Radiorails says the Divi was an added incentive for families on a lower income to join. Being a member was also something of a tradition, Mom was in the...