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My mom used to live in Crawford street 6/11, but, the family left in the 40's and moved to Ash Road. My Aunty ran Crown Mission and I attended there on Sundays for Sunday School and Tuesdays for The Temperence Society. I had quite a few friends that lived in Crawford St. and Cranby St. That...

My Auntie Marge was probably telling the truth then.

My mom worked opposite Hughes biscuit factory, at Thornley and Knights. She would pop over there during her lunch break to buy a bag of broken biscuits, and they would sit in her bag the whole afternoon, soaking up the smell from the Tekoloid (paint). By the time she got home with them they...

Not sure.

Remember Harry Ramsdens on Coventry Road, me and my mom used to get two buses to get there. Didn't do that too often.

My Auntie Marge, used to work at Typhoo Tea, and she said that the tea in teabags was the loose tea swept off the floor. (of course she was joking?)

Yes, I think it is.

Hi, lovely to see all these pics. I worked at Jefferson 'B' Fashions, 24 Albert St. I worked there from 1972 - 74 and there was no parking lot then.

So, is there some special reason for us to have been born at Sorrento Hospital?

My mom tried to get tokens for me, too. They said my journey was not ten miles ( I was traveling from Ash Road, Saltley to Hodge Hill Grammar) so, my Uncle took the journey with me and measured the miles in his car, it was just over ten miles. So, my Uncle or Mom, can’t remember, queried this...

Yes, I think she may have had a brother, didn't really see much of him.

That would have been my Aunty Gwen and Aunty Wilson (although she wasn't my real aunt).

My family lived in 6/11 Crawford, but, moved way before your time. My Aunty ran Crown Mission on Crawford Street, until the 70's, I used to attend the Sunday School and Band of Hope on a Tuesday night.

My Aunty Edie lived at 59 Phillimore Road.

Yes, the shops and the first house (#6, where my Aunty and Uncle lived were demolished) in the late 80's

Hi Sue, Gillian Tailor, a name from the past. She lived by my cousin, Mary, an we used to hang out with her. Also, Rachel, did you know her?

Doesn't that sign, in the right hand window say "Flowers for all occassions"?

Spent my first weeks wages on a pair shoes from that Stylo's. I worked in Albert Street and used to check every morning to make sure the shoes I wanted were still in the window.

Yes, it was. I worked in Albert Street, not at the Beehive, though.