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Janice thank you but, Oh Dear, perhaps the result is the reason that Villa, like most teams now include foreign players. On the other side of the coin last season a premiership team, I think Chelsea, fielded a team with no English players I do not think I will bet on England to win the Euros...

Hi All, I am a Blues supporter but last night on TV I learned something about Aston Villa that warmed my heart. They are, in fact, the last team to field a team consisting of all English players in the Premiership. I missed the exact date but it was a match against Coventry City about...

Hi All, I am so pleased that your granddaughter survived and brings so much joy today, all thanks to the NHS. I myself, approaching 90 years of age, am depending a little too much on this still excellent service and beginning to wish that it was all over. I also agree, Eddie, with your...

Hi old Mohawk, As you were only 4 you, presumably, was not at school. Pre school children were only evacuated if the mother went as well. This would obviously cause many difficulties, not least the parents being apart so there were not many such evacuations. Old Boy

Hi All, The absence of traffic in the Lodge Road photo shows how much calmer life must have been in those days. Note the people walking or just standing in the road and the small group of boys with a hoop. Old Boy

Robert, Sorry I have only just picked this up. If you want a definitive answer I can say, hand on heart, that there is not and never has been a police house in Barrows Lane. A police officer might have lived there but it would have been in a private house, either his own or rented...

Hi All, My tale of the Annual Inspection at Tally Ho. I was a constable in Chief Office at the time so did not take part in the parade. It was before the new club was built and refreshments were being supplied to VIP guests in a large marquee. With others I was serving drinks and I asked...

Hi All, This was almost certainly the annual inspection. Each year the Chief H M Inspector of Police would oversee an inspection of the force. It usually took about a week with the inspectors visiting various divisions and departments etc. On the Sunday after the inspection an inspection...

Hi All, I am fairly sure that prior to WW2 there were no such things as care homes. Old people either fended for themselves or were looked after by their children.. Now every city and town has care homes usually privately owned and run for profit. What does this indicate? Were children of...

Hi All, This was obviously a girls grammar school as it was only the grammar schools that wore full uniform at that time. My guess is either Handsworth or King Edwards, Camp Hill. Old Boy

Hi All. Having been a police officer and ending my service at the airport I have witnessed a few royal visits some of which I will probably mention from time to time. There was the occasion when the Princess Royal arrived by helicopter at the police sports ground, Tally Ho. The...

Afternoon All, We are reminded that today, 6th August 2015, is the 70th anniversary of the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima. There is little point in reopening the debate on the previous posts but I have to say that Post No 4 by Postie sums it up in my opinion. However in...

Weicome Mark. Let us hope that many more will follow your example and tell us a little bit of their history. We older memebrs could also open up and tell us all a little more about themselves. I will think about it. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)

Hi Froth, It looks as though we have been barking up the wrong tree. Blues were relegated from Div 1 to Div 2 in season 1949/50. During that time Blues had a popular mascot who paraded around the ground dressed similarly to the figure on the tie who is shaking hands with the Blues...

Hi Gill, IT IS OR WAS PUBLIC HOUSE. I THINK IT WAS CALLED THE BIRMINGHAM ARMS BUT I AM NOT SURE. Welcome to the forum Old Boy

Hi All. It is fair enough to contribute towards a present for a teacher who is retiring but giving a gift to a teacher on your leaving school is a NO NO NO in my opinion.. Old Boy

Hi All, The Germans bombed my chippie. Jacks in Green Lane, Small Heath. Old Boy

Hi All, At the start of this thread I told you about my first glimpse of the sea. When our first born was about 18 months old we decided to take her down to Weston for a week It was her first sight of the sea. We stayed in a caravan at Uphill, just outside Weston. Unfortunately it leaked...

Hi Roy, Re Bobbies on the beat although I became a police officer myself the only way I had anything to do with them when I was a nipper was running away when we saw the local bobby caoming down the street whilst we were playing foorball. I made sure that they never caught me. However, I...

Hi All, My favourite film is "Beau Geste" simply because it was the first A film I saw by getting into the cinema on my own. It was The Elite on Bordesley Green. I was 14 and should have been 16. Other films I remember enjoying tremendously are "Mutiny on the Bounty" The original with...