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I remember the advert for the Renault Dauphine on TV too. It used to be a jingle singing 'A penny farthing a mile, and you travel in style...dum dum Renault Dauphine.

I thought the same thing Sylvia. I will go back and have another look.

I agree with all your say Shortie. It must have seemed like a blank canvas after the war, and they were able to think up new big ideas to change the face of Brum forever. They should have left the best of the buildings and built in keeping with them. I think a lot of the one's there today, will...

Absolutely Sticher, we did have some of the best times in all the areas you mention. I have good memories of all those things and wouldn't want to change it for anything.

Of course there was Stitcher, but they just didn't think did they? Brum has become the most unrecogniseable city in the UK for us who were born and grew up there. I think what they did to that city is unforgiveable.

I don't think todays generation would have coped as well as we did sistersue. I think the difference is in our time it was a case of getting the priorities right. These days it would seem that things like a mobile phone, a computer and all life's little luxuries are just as important as learning...

What a magnificent building Stitcher. No wonder Brum has lost all it's character, when you look at what has replaced these places.

Yes Lyn, we did all survive and most of grew up honest and decent in spite of the harsh conditions we grew up in. I loved the story of your mom getting the orange shift dress and beige shoes for you...what a lovely mother she was. How I envy you that.

Lyn, at last I've found time to sit and look through all these wonderful photo's. Thank you so much for all your efforts in putting them on the Forum for us all to enjoy.

We had nowhere to keep a tin bath Charlie, so it was always a visit to Edgbaston baths to enjoy a soak. In between in was strip wash, having put the kettle on for hot water, because like you, we only had a cold tap too, and that hadn't always been the case. There was a time when water was...

Hello Alan, You are right Alibone and Batchelor, was always called Alibone's by us locals. My dad isn't the one who worked at Winson Green though, so you may have got me muddled up with someone else. You do remember Watty Green though, as you say it's a small world. (See Maggie UK's post).

I also believe that the worst of the slums were close to the city centre, and I believe that I lived in some of the worst, being Moreton St, Grosvenor St West, and Browning St. All facilities were shared by several other families, like the brewhouse, outside loo's and yards to hang the washing...

I remember Allibone and Batchelor's shop very well, and I had a quite a lot of clothes from there. My boyfriend at the time lived in Ellen Street, but I don't remember a hardware shop. There was a bookie in that area called with the name Watty Green, and he was my boyfriends uncle.

How very very sad Rupert. Those poor animals only had 6 weeks of life left after their arrival at Port Elizabeth. It's definitely a horror story... a by line indeed, its shocking.

This is a film I could never go and see either. I hate to see any animal suffering or hurt. I can't even watch the Grand National. Even in Western's I have to turn away when the shooting etc starts, I am sure a lot of horses in these films must have had to be destroyed through injuries. I...

Love looking at these old pics Lyn. Thanks for your efforts.

What a lovely building this was. I remember it well, and travelled from there on a number of occasions. I sometimes wonder what Birmingham City Council were thinking of pulling these wonderful buildings down. Thank you for putting this pic on Stitcher.

Hello Alan, I was very disappointed to read your thread because I am not the one who got the photo for you of Dennis Jelf's grave at Frankly cemetery, but would have liked to be able to help you with this. Can you put this request onto the Forum and hope that the someone who did it for you will...

As you say Barbinoz let's hope these thieves get their comeuppance. You know what they say 'You take something from someone, someone will take something from you'. I personally always hope that this happen's. A very sad story Suejoy.

Carolina, I don't know whether it was the one, but was it called 'Jive Bunny'? Perhaps I am totally muddled.