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Re: pan cakes ; Hi All, My wife came out of hospital on Monday We had completely forgotten that Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday but my wife mentioned it in the late evening. I think that it is the first Shrove Tuesay since I was born that I had not had a pancake. Surely the end is nigh...

Hi David, Yes it is Mr Lunn. He was second in comand of 2030 (Yardley Squadron) ATC during the war years. As you can see he also ran our football team. We were quite sucessful but always got beaten by BSA Sqadron. I found Mr Lunn to be a very nice chap. No one,as yet...

Hi Wendy, Yes, a very interesting photo, but I doubt very much if it had anything to do with the evacuation at all. I myself was evacuated. We knew that war was imminent and radio broadcasts were full of it. We actually evacuated on Friday 1st September 1939 and were informed by radio a...

Hi All, My sister used to say "I will be glad when this fire has gone down.My legs are burning" Old Boy

Hi Eric, No. You are not alone. It is a terrible statue that has been used in the main for commercial purposes and moved from pillar to post. It has no relevance at all to Birmingham and why people are pleading for its return is beyond my comprehension. Old Boy

HI Remus, My brain is certainly addled. There is a Brick Kiln Lane off Greenholm road which, itself, is off Kingstanding Road. It is the Perry Barr district.I should have looked at the A to Z first. Old Boy

Hi Remus, Summer Lane and Marsh Lane are nowhere near each other so Brick Kiln Lane could not be close to both of them.. My addled memory may well be wrong but I seem to remember that Brick Kiln Lane was near the city centre off Newtown Row. In fact, it may well still be there...

Hi Dennis, No. He is nothing like Tom Finney and he certainly did not play like him. However attached is a photo of 2030 (Yardley) Squadron ATC footballl team. It is a poor photo but you or someone else may recognise the captain, holding the ball. Alternatively old boys of Bordesley...

Hi All. I imagine that someone has fallen in that area and is blaming the pavement and probably suing the Council The council will have to show that there is nothing wrong with the pavement. Compensation payments are ridiculously high these days. Another unwelcome import from the USA...

Hi All, As a child playing in the street I remember an older boy, who today would be classified as 'learning impaired'. I believe he lived on Bordesley Green or nearby. When we saw him coming down the street someone would shout "Look out. Here he comes". We would then scatter and hide...

Hi Terry, Thank you very much. Sorry for the delay - the New Year has intervened. I have been told that shortly after the war my grandparents were visited by an old friend of my uncle who told them that he had been killed by a shell landing nearby and had died instantly. Of course I...

EUREKA Old Boy

Hi All, In both wars women often took up posts normally occupied by men. In WW1, for instance, many postmen who went to war were replaced by women. This photo is of five such women. The lady holding the cat was my wifes' mother (then Clara Giddings). I never met her as she died, sadly...

Hi Tony, This is another I missed and I am sincerely sorry. Yes, the Arthur John Beresford you tell us about was indeed my uncle. He was actually killed at Wielge, Passchendale. I have managed to visit his grave a few times. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)

Hi Terry, I must have missed this when it was first posted. What a tragic event but probably little noticed amongst all the other goings on in that war. Reverting back to my uncle (Post 1) he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps when it was formed. Is there any way of finding...

Eddie, You beat me to it. Jean has certainly blotted her copybook Old Boy

Re: st marys chapel loveday st Hi All, I think that it is time to tell this little story. Sometime about the end of 1976 I was on duty in Bradford Street Police Station when we were called to a building site where a body had been found. On arrival we found that a digger had unearthed a...

Anne, It is not an offence not to have your chimney swept. The offence is allowing your chimney to catch fire which I suppose is the same thing really. I certainly imagine that an insurance company would have an excuse not to pay out if a chimney fire spread and damaged the property and/or...

Hi All, This is a photo of Heybarnes Utd who played in one of the Sunday leagues. I am in the photo and played for them in ther late 1940s. Any man who lived in the Haybarnes area may remember the chap in civvies second from the left in front row. He was Billy Stokes the barber whose shop...

Hi All, The point about Lord Haw Haw was that you did not tune in specifically to listen to him but he broke into broadcasts in the UK. You could be listening to a popular show such as ITMA (Its that man again) when his voice came over the program spouting his German prpaganda. The BBC...