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Thanks for that Lady P

Must have been so frustrating to think you're going to be able to do something you liked and then be landed with cleaning etc. I was so glad that, being a technical kind of guy, I was able to train as an aircraft engine mechanic. Certainly proved useful in civvy street to repair all my old...

Thanks Lady P. Strange that I have no recollection of it at all, but probably because Stockland Green end. I was attending Handsworth Tech until December 1946 and use to go to Salford Bridge to get the tram to Villa Road so rarely went up that way. What is the name of the book you mentioned? Is...

Izzy, the ingenuity of kids in those days. Not sure whether they have it these days

I still say that today. Trouble is I need ten of them at a time these days

Well done Mort, great photo

All this talk of experiences at the barbers reminds me of when I first started work at McKecnie Brothers. I was 15 and one day went to a nearby barbers, never been in before. While cutting away he asked if my Dad was bald and when I said yes he then pronounced that I would be before I was 30...

You folk are now digging deep and bringing back memories. Dinnefords, Beecham's pills, Gripe water. What about Fennings fever Cure, Yak!!! Being in the RAF I was a true Brylcreem boy, and still am. Though very little hair now, if I don't use it I look as though I'm taking off. Now in a red...

I'm glad it's in your garden Izzy and not mine. I would be having nightmares!!!

Pete, that pic. of Zebrite brings back memories, my Saturday job, but didn't get paid for it !!! Also the Blackjack. I had an abscess on my right ear when I was about 9 and Dr. Butler, whose surgery was at Stockland Green, gave Mom some Blackjack which I had to put on for a week. When I went...

No idea when the photo in John Ls post was taken but long time after WW11 in view of flyover and indeed the lighting. We only had gas lighting in and after the war. I lived in Abbey Road, born there in 1931, and lived there until 1958. I can't remember ever having a flood on Slade road. Sadly...

Looks an interesting book Lady P. Does anyone know when the flood was on Slade Road, and whereabouts?

Does anyone know how long it took from start to finish to build Spaghetti Junction. Often think of the times I walked down Slade Road, under the railway arch to get t Salford Park, to sail my yacht, or get the No 5 tram up to Lozells and Villa Road, to go to Handsworth Tech

First time of reading this thread. I, nor my Dad or brothers were ever interested in football. We lived in Abbey Road Erdington near Brookvale Park so every Saturday Villa were playing at home we could always hear the roar of the crowd when they scored. There was one of the Villa players lived...

We had a smaller galvanised bath which was used regularly despite having a bathroom [with a bath]. Water heated from the old black fire grate so in summer Mom used to heat the water in the big gas boiler situated in the corner of the kitchen. I always had to go in the bath after my brother to...

As they say Pete "Here today, gone tomorrow" As far as ties are concerned, does anyone remember the ties on elastic. The tie was permanently tied on a short piece of wire with hooks bent at both ends. A piece of elastic with loops on the end was then attached. They were very neat in appearance...

Had my slide rule, used at Handsworth Tech. in 1944/45, until few weeks ago. Read of a nine year old lad in Torquay building his own Museum, so sent him that, with a number of other things, that were like me, old and ancient. Suggested he gets his friends and family to guess what they all were...

Must be a bit slow on the uptake as only just come across this site about the GEC. I, [ Neville Johnson], worked there for about four years until the middle of 1958 in the test room of Small Motors. Due to age can't remember many names apart from Bob ? the foreman and Herman Herman a labourer...

It was indeed Slade Road infants and Junior school, the Star Cinema next to it. I loved in Abbey Road and like Smudger spent many happy hours in Brookvale park and the Star Cinema

Hi Vivienne. I was taken with your Corinilla, shown in #185. I ordered one and it came this morning. Whilst only a small plant it is lovely and in bloom. Love to see all the photos of various plants on here, thanks to all who put them on