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Hello Redken. I remember Mount Pleasant very well, I lived in Watery Lane and had a few mates who lived round there it would be nice to see some of your photos. I knew the Nattrass family, the Flint family and the Costello family. its brought back some good memories thinking of Mount Pleasant...

Monty Python, A now for something completely different. also Spike Milligan in the Q series What are we going to do now ?( repeated while shuffling off to the side)

My nickname as a child was Dad it was because i was always singing Dont you rock me daddy o by Lonnie Donnigan. It must have looked strange when adults were overheard asking for dad, then i walked in aged about 5. All the best formula t.

Peggy Mitchell from Eastenders Get out of my pub. also Ken Dodd How tickled i am.

Hello bill, looking at the photo it is kingston hill park as we used to run round that white concrete circle on the top section of the park. You can also see my old school in front of the blues ground with its clock and spire. wonderful photograph thank you for the link. All the best formula t .

Thats a great picture brummie nick its about 21 years before me. mind you he seems to be enjoying himself. ( bloomin vandal). you can just make out the stone steps up on the right leading to the top park. and i think the factory at the back is Warne Wright & Rowlands, in Keeley St. nice one...

And i always smiled when mom asked me to wipe the compensation off the windows (priceless). All the best formula t

Hello dec. I played football there now and again your right there wasnt much grass. but enjoyable all the same. A couple of coats for goal posts and off we went. I used Kingston Hill park more than any other ( or Keeley St) if you came from the other entrance. it was handy for me as the park...

Another snippet from the Birmingham Gazette(Friday 20th December 1935) ALDERMANS ANECDOTE Did i know Tommy ? Who didnt ? said Alderman W. E. Lovsey (chairman of the Birmingham Watch Committee ) to the Gazett last night, Why i claimed Tommy as my oldest peculiar friend. I remember many...

The church i recall was in St Andrews Rd, in the 60s i am fairly sure it had a flat top not a spire. or has my memory gone again All the best formula t

I remember the fair used to come most years to Garrrison Lane Park, just down from the blues ground. I spent my last 5/- trying to win this floral tea service on the bingo stall for my aunt. And as luck had it i won it with my last tanner. My aunt was well happy, it made my day. Does anyone...

That is funny, it made me laugh at the time and it made me laugh when i just watched it. Its got my vote Pedrocut. All the best formula t .

Hello Brummie Nick. Tommy often threw stuff through pub windows, the story of dismantling his cart is quite true, i think it was the bulls head in digbeth. The Mail did a story on Tommy in the 70s with stories and pictures. i have it somewhere i will have to dig it out and check. All the best...

One of my favourites was from 1966 its more of a quote really. Those great words They think its all over IT IS NOW. brilliant.

Eric you have amazed me yet again, a smashing painting. I can see myself turning the corner just in time to miss that bus. All the best formula t.

Here are a couple of little stories regarding Tommy Tank. In his younger days Tommy was a hawker in the market selling fish, on one occasion he had some herrings on his cart and was disappointed that a lady customer refused to buy any, about a week later the same lady did purchase some herring...

Hello Dashers You will no doubt come across a picture of an ancester of mine in there. He was blacklisted from most pubs in birmingham in the early 1900s, he was known as Tommy Tank due to the amount of beer he could drink. His real name was Thomas Larvin he was my Great Grandmothers brother. I...

Was it Hughie Green who used to say I mean that most sincereley friends.

An excellent picture eric, makes me feel like turning the heater up a notch. Talented indeed. All the best formula t.

Hello Paul I think it was an little once a week spot on ATV local news ( now central news) it was like a mini crimewatch for the midlands. Shaw Taylor was the presenter every week. i think he passed away some years ago now. It was early to mid 70s. All the best formula t.