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you can veiw telly savalas looks at birmingham on youtube its how i remember it as a kid trouble is its propper 1970's cheese lol the over 40's disco had me in fits well worth a look if only for a gigle yes its my kinda town so long birmingham heres looking at you lol

hi lune dont know if this will help but i shall be going to winson green at the end of the month handsworth cen and to tread my old stompping groud but be more than happy to take some pics for your of foundry rd school be great to see my old school again lol let me know if you wont some pics...

hi astoness yes there is a school called foundry raod junior and infants school its on the corner of foundry road and yes the school still satnds i use to go there as a child if you use google maps street view it will show you the school hope this helps celia

i consider myself a true brummie even though ive not lived there for 30 years i was born in dudley road hospital i lived in winson green 5 mins walk from the prison i went to foundry road junior and infants school the 11c outer circle stopped right out side my house so did that route many a...

what a small world i grew up in winson green on the handsworth new road in the 70's i went to foundry road junior and infants school and used grove lane swimming baths with the school played in black patch park summerfield park and handsworth park i remember a few of the pubs round handsworth...

thankyou kerion for posting the history on the black eagle i have very fond memorys of that pub as its was my dads local and i can remember my mom sending me and my sister to the pub many times to drag my dad out as his sunday dinner was going cold oh happy days

i have read this thread with great interest and now im in a bit of a whatsit as to what to do i said i would take my 13 year old son to the think tank when he is on his six weeks hols as he is brill at science at school and its something that really interest him but having read the thread im...

hi robrose im searching my morral family tree to my great great grandfather edward morrall was born in morton bagot hadnt a clue where it was till i google maped it its just the other side of redditch in the parish of studly not sure if your morrall's and my morrall's are related or if im...

handsworth new road winson green moved to tamworth early 80's

is there anybody out there that has used or uses handsworth central working mans club on nineveh road i ask because as a child my father was a member of the club during the 70's as a family we would go most saturday nights to be entertained by a DJ and bands doing the pubs and clubs curcits...

thankyou to everybody who has replied to this thread i did have a funny idea that the church might be demolished such a shame it would have been nice to see where my dad got married first time round lol thankyou mikejee for posing the pic it really dose look a wonderful church it must have...

im not sure if this thread has been done before if so i aplogise in advance my dad and his first wife were married at all saints church winson green christmas 1954 now ive looked on the web cant seem to find it and ive looked on google maps but i still carnt seem to find it dose anybody have...

my nan and grand dad were married at st michaels church in 1929 they spent all their married life in mostyn road have had a look at the church on google street map its a very inpresive church

the only realy big moth i have seen was a elephant hawk moth a few years ago it was on a plant and i picked it up ever so gentaly to show my hubby i have never seen him move so quick lol when i asked him why he ran he said thats one hell of a big moth told him they dont bite or sting he said i...

i had never heard of big moths being called bob howlers and im a brummie lol but hubby swore black was blue that the big hairy moth he saw as a kid was called a bob howler and wont have it that its a brummie word for a big hairy moth

a few days ago my hubby told me a child hood memory he has about moths and why he dosent like them to this day my hubby recalls as a small boy climbing the stairs to go to bed one night. A very large hairy moth was on the landing wall. It frightened him so much he wouldnt go to bed and he had...

here are two pics of my two wonderfull dogs 4 year old fred who an otterhound and came from dogs trust in kennillworth and 2 year old baliey who we rescued from racing kenills because he cant run anymore and would end up being destroyed

pete i have never laughed so much as i have done this evening and it has bought back so many happy child hood memorys for this nearly 40 something lol and its true our mothers fathers and grandparents had pride even though times were hard and money was very short it would never do to be letting...

thats just wrong on all levels at the start of the thread the question was did we smell in days gone by and to be honest i dont think we did the statards of cleness and personal manners were a lot higher than they are today althought there is a wide choice of personal hygene products to day than...

goog god no i couldnt use anybodys loo for a you know what and i dont like useing public loos if there are lots of people there thought it was just me lol we arnt fussy just polite folk lol