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Great pictures, wouldn't it be great to have a museum big enough to show them all? the handcart took me back to my youth,pushed one for many a mile loaded up with timber

I'mafraid to say this, but there aren't the craftsmen about to day who can create our old type victorian buildings examples like the B'ham law courts using terra cotta and other fine materials look at the council house,the town hall, no ugly concrete in that lot

I quite enjoyed the information, reads like fiction don't it? I heard a bit about it years ago ,so it was nice to get the full picture thanks guy's

Oh Memories of a small boy, to see those wonderful machines working away in our streets when they used to resurface the roads,the smell of the tar,you can bet your life,we got some on our footwear, and clothes,used lard to get it off our legs

Keep them coming Graham, i always find them interesting O0

Rod, I quite understand the problem with all too many photographs appearing, will bear that in mind in the future all the best Dennis PS any pics of mine you are quite within your right's to remove and No offence taken O0 O0

another view of Hurlingham Road again in the 1930s

A couple of pics taken in the 30s sorry to say the place looks a bit neglected now

still have quite a selection of old records up in the loft dating from the 30s 40s.50.60, mostly all 78s can't play them now,also have some 6p "Eclipse" records from "woolys" plus Joe loss,everly bros,Vipers skiffle,lonny donegon's Cumberland gap, Rock Island line etc

Hi Wally, did you know the Kirby's that lived Esher Rd.? O0

Graham, I was a patrol leader in the 1st Kingstanding scouts that was my first uniform 1944, but I would think that the photo of a 1949 scout would be a lot earlier

Graham, I have been wearing a poppy every year since I was a kid, and what's more proud to wear it

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Reply to #26 John, brought back some happy memories, Got to know the Gibson family quite well, and there was a miserable old lady serving in linington's kept the fag's under the counter "Pasha" or "Turf" only she cried

Phil, you can get the book direct from Alton Douglas postage paid....... Alton Douglas, 371,Rednal Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham. B38 8EE Tel:0121 458 5599

I'm with Aston on that one i.e........ "All dressed up like a dog's dinner" that's the one I know

Cor,Ain't the place gone down the nick would'nt recognise the old place now :(

Aston, next to the railway on the left hand side, was "Kings" cafe, the other side of the railway, was the Perry Barr Greyhound Track

I got to know Birchfield Rd, quite well in the 40s walked up and down there 100s of times trying to get ciggies for the motley crew of builder's where I was employed as an apprentice. Like Aston, I bought a lot of my tools from Dodd's and also used to take the picks and crowbars to be sharpened...

Hi Graham, once again a great set of posters could never understand why our Merchant Navy Lads were not rewarded,their danger was as terrific as the RN