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Has anyone tasted tonic wine? I imagine it as being very sweet, like Harvey's Bristol Cream , perhaps. Amazingly, the Sanatogen one is still sold. My parents used to take a Sanatogen powder that you mixed with hot milk. I don't know why they took it, but you can still buy it at Boots, if it's...

I had never heard of this, but it's at Birmingham University, and there was an item about it on Front Row (Radio 4) on 5th July. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/visit/index.aspx

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-speaks-raza-hussain I hope the link works. It's a video of a poem by Raza Hussain inspired by a painting in the Art Gallery.

The hair might have been piled up over a pad of some kind?

I once had a vegetarian pate sandwich upstairs at Prana (which might at that time have been Holland & Barrett), and had to ask if they were sure there was no meat in it, because it really tasted like meat! I don't remember a lot about the bread etc. that they sold. There used to be something...

You're right about Holland & Barrett, Lady P. I think I might have the John Yudkin book, or perhaps he wrote another one? I've got some cookery books from the Vegetarian Society that I've had since the 1970s or 80s, and they're so grim - very plain in appearance, and also the recipes. I also...

I was thinking about Prana again today for some reason, and I think they used to sell their own ready-to-heat tofu burgers, which were very good.

Steven Knight (creator of the programme) is on the radio now, talking about one of his heroes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pf09d

That's how we used to eat them, but I think we used a straight pin! In one of Nigel Slater's books, he describes his father eating a pomegranate with a pin - I thought: well, didn't every one?!

And all those amazing hats!

Yes, I really liked maxis. You must be very adept to have altered a coat, Viv. That's tailoring!

Around 1970 I had a maxi dress from C & A for a school friend's 18th birthday party. It had a cream background with a pattern of broken-up circles in orange and gold, and the top was a bit smocked. It cost £3.00, which was probably a lot for my parents in those days (at the time I didn't realise...

I should have said in the Piccadilly Arcade.

I can remember two branches of Drucker's, a small one off New Street, and wasn't there a branch in the shopping centre below the station? They used to have very elaborate and alarming-looking cream cakes! I know that it's a different sort of place now.

I can only remember a coffee shop on the first floor of Rackhams. Once when I was there, they had ladies modelling clothes, which seemed like something from the 1950s (it was the mid-80s).

I often used to go into the Kardomah, Lady P. It was near Rackham's, I think? In the 1980s, cappuccino seemed really exotic!

The school archive is here https://www.saltleyschoolarchives.co.uk/ I've only had a quick look - some very good photos.

I'd never heard of this actress untill seeing "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner," in which she played the hero's girl friend, on television last night. She had a very sad life...

Of course, climbing the stairs of a tram, you risked someone catching a glimpse of your ankles!!

I'm sure I remember a glass case with a black dress or suit (1950s?) which was near what I think of as the side entrance. It's all different now, but this entrance was round the corner from the main one.