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Think it may have been in Moor St. Think it was there I bought my duffle coat for 5 quid though that sounds dear to me. It was a genuine one that had been in store from c1943.The material was as thick as what you got in the neck of a bottle and the imprint of the wooden toggles wouldn't come...

I don't have a lorry but I do have a fairisles jumper. It was knitted by my mother over 60 years ago and I have seldom worn it as the long sleeves are a wee bit short and I live in a pretty temperate climate. I can't bring myself to part with it but fear the worse for it when I depart etc...

Hi Maurice, forgive me being flippant but when I read your post I couldn't help thinking how great it was to have someone in the family named after a famous biscuit. Cheers Tim

Thought the design of the soap packet could have been borrowed from England's Glory Matches. Cheers Tim

Well remember the smell of the new bread being loaded on the vans as we walked past along Kyrwicks Lane to the Alhambra picture house on Moseley Rd. Maybe that's why I bake my own with the aid of a bread making machine. I sometimes forget that it's doing its stuff and have the smell wafting...

Keep them coming Stitched and throw in the odd one of your needlework to please the missus. Cheers Tim

Is that a Wellington or Lancaster flying in the background?

Thanks Jonob, can't say as neither strikes a cord. Can only remember (?) that there was a bar upstairs and you could have your drink as you stood and watch the ambulances arrive. This was before the drink/drive times and I even then thought we were maybe a bit stupid. The barman would pull the...

Think I used to have the odd pint of Guinness in a pub opposite prior to 1961. Am I right if so what was it called. Cheer Tim

I had forgotten about parking meters as we live in rural Victoria here in Oz. Was recently in Melbourne and was amazed that meters have gone and that I was expected to download an app on my phone to organize a bit of parking. A local lady told me to ignore it, which I did. Who would have thought...

I find it so hard to believe that such jobs existed. Born in 1938 I always feel that such tasks were done with machines as shown on Pathe Pictorial in cinemas prior to TV . No wonder kids these days believe that there is such a product as Mc Donald's meat and that real meat don't come from cows...

Saw Gil Merrick once in Lewis's. It some sort of promotion in the sports dept. You could try to score against Gil, think it w's c1952. Cheers Tim

Maybe the ghost lines are cranes either for or near Lewis's. Cheers Tim

Well you wuz on the tether side of town ! Never mind eh!

Lyn yours were posh ! We would go to the ironmongers in Highgate Rd and for a couple of pence you could buy two 1 inch bolts and one nut. You screwed one bolt half way into the nut, put your cap in then screw the other bolt in 'til it just touched the cap. Threw it in the air and on impact you...

I maybe wrong but that looks like a 1954/5 Ford Consul. Cheers Tim

Hi Alexander, the pictures show the street looking towards Turner St. from about half down the street and the latter looking down towards Ladypool Rd. I would say this was taken from about no 9 or 10 as we lived in no 7 and just missed out. I calculated this based on the door steps, sounds daft...

Funny thing is my parents always insisted that I avoid talking with a Brummie accent and I have lived in Australia since 1961. So it always surprises me when some people pick me as a Brummie. The most recent case was only a few weeks ago, but he said that whilst he was from Bristol he had been...

As kid going home to Sparkbook on the bus I used to think it was The Union Gold Storage in Digbeth. Thought it was a bit open to robbery as there were no armed guards or the like. Only in later life did I realize that the only gold was the color that the signage was painted. Cheers Tim ( the...

Hi Lisa, My mom you to say something like " If you don't ask you'll never know ". So give it go my Luv ! Cheers Tim