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Lady P you are not supposed to inhale milkshakes through the nose ( that's only for recreational medication!). Cheers Tim

Think you are right on the button Phil with 1935. I was born in 1938 and from the style of clothing it was that bit before me. The only names familiar to me were Mrs Green ( we didn't use her shop much as we were clients of Oscar Aldworth just round the corner in Turner St. but my mate Gerald...

We always referred to the street traders as "Barrow Boys", even if they didn't have a barrow but traded out of a suitcase. These days market traders are called "Stall Holders", well here anyway ! Cheers Tim

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We had a couple of elderly ladies who lived opposite to us in Tillingham St in the 1950's a widow, Mrs. Young and her lodger young Miss Clark (?) who both wore the long black skirts etc. Miss Clarke was literally put out on the street when the tenants either died or lost employment from their...

What a bummer for you Lyn, you'll have to wait for the photos like the rest of us no shows! Get well soon. Cheers Tim

Ain't it nice to back to normal our kid !

Think the boys were Telegram Boys.

When I was at Stratford Rd Infant School c1945 we had a boy from Dudley join us. As far as accents were concerned he could have been from Mars but it didn't take long for him to start to talk proper like what the rest of us did. As my parents were foreign, Dad from Buckinghamshire via Solihull...

As kids we used to loosen the screws on the strikers, just for fun. When they started using Phillips head screws we thought that it was to thwart us, how self centered can kids be?

Used have to argue with the bus conductor when they gave you tokens in your change. They argued that they were legal tender on the buses whilst we said only if they were giving change for the larger valued token (the green one?). Glad to say we won, even resorting to bringing the driver into the...

When I worked in the sales dept. of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds I was once discussing the clever but naughty advert of A&P and said it was a pity GKN didn't have something similar. She drew my attention to our letterhead that told the story of the inmates who escaped from the mental asylum, raped...

Somewhere on this forum I mentioned that my Mom was the original manageress of the Wimpy Bar on Snow Hill and then in Broad St when they started to expand. The strange thing is only remembering going into the latter when I must have been so near to the one in Snow Hill as I travelled to...

Hi RR, Was going to say you didn't miss much but maybe you did as it was a cut above the others, thick red carpet and there was an Usher there (can't recall his name, maybe Ron), good looking bloke my one girlfriend had the hot for him. Must admit he looked like a movie star in waiting, wonder...

Well what was I doing in my mis-spent youth because I have no memory of live concerts at the Odeon though I saw many films there. A mate and I were spending a few hours painting the town red and popped in to have a bit of a rest during the afternoon (maybe the pubs were still closed 2.30pm till...

Other than Special Days when we were on an outing ,maybe to "The Licky's " our everyday playground was in the street. You played "Marlies" in the gutters or sailed little hand made or matchsticks down them when it rained. You played such games as "London" or "May I Cross Your Colored Waters"...

Hi Maurice, "this is only a feeling in me water" as my mom used to say but I feel your Dad may have been employed directly by one of the railways. It is only based on when I traveled to and from Handsworth for school I would see metal signs (about 1 foot square) hung in the windows of shops and...

Thanks for the photo Phil. At one stage in my life I spent a lot of time gazing into shop windows like that. Priory Cycles had two shops that had to be checked out a couple of times a week for their displays of such beauties as Bianchi with the crackled paint finish. Always bought my bits and...

Hi John, thanks for the pictures, bring back memories. No club for me have never been competitive and a bit of a loner. Cheers Tim

[And thanks from me too young lady. Had seen it before but nice to go over it again. The sad thing is the fact that many of the old posters are no longer on the scene which makes me wonder if they have dropped of the twig (as they say!) or may be they are busy with other endeavours and will pop...