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In one of my previous life forms I worked for a finance co. that specialized in small products finance. We were breaking into financing the sale of bikes on HP. this was about 1958/9. When I said to my boss I thought our interest rate of 18% was a bit steep he said it was better than the 26%...

That's it Viv, poor place has not been dealt with too kindly. Usual lack of congregation and funds. Job well done. Cheers Tim

Dear onceabrummie, l spent many an hour playing with strips of lead, small cable drum and a sash weight named Harvey. I therefore think that you led a perfectly normal life. Cheers Tim

There was a steeple on it when I lived in the area from birth 1938 to leaving in 1961. When I was at Stratford Rd Infants School we used that church hall as an annex for music lessons etc. I remember getting all excited about being in the percussion group thinking I'd get a bash at the drum. It...

The clock was over a Jewlers, think the name was Parkers, they had a clock on the wall outside that was claimed to be as accurate as the one at The Greenwich Observatory. My parents bought me a signet ring there for my 13th birthday which would have been 1951. Don't think that was a pub on the...

What can I say ! Cheers Tim

Are the chains those that had big spikes in them (like out of torture chambers) that were supposed to stop us sitting on them. Never put us off as we sat between them but they put you a bit off balance. Cheers Tim.

It's the sort of name that rings a bell !

Whoops that should be "I don't want etc.

With regard to the F... word, when we were about age 7 to 8 , say 1946/7 one of "Our Gang" said he had learnt a new swear word but didn't know what it meant. That didn't put us off so the 3 or 4 of us were outside our house in Tillingham St saying "F..." this and "F..." that. Suddenly the front...

Whoops again, trying to correct the capital R. I think the "Money Box Mine" was to help support families of those lost at sea. But as I would have been 3 or 4 I may be right off the mark. Cheers Tim

Regarding the bomb. In my fuzzy memory I think the bomb was hollow with a slot for donations for maybe restoration of some sort. I know that there was at one time a sea mine by The Hall of remembrance

Looks like a BSA 350cc with a Watsonia sidecar. Chees Tim.

Told you Lyn is a nice lady and very tolerate to us oldies !

Had an "Aunt" who lived in Evelyn Rd. far too sedate to have had a cinema, you would have to up to Stratford Rd for the likes of a cinema. Nice picture Viv.

Hi Eddie, I didn't mean that the area wasn't officially Sparkbrook just that I felt Sparkhill began when you had to start walking up the hill. I too lived in Sparkbrook, born there 1938 and left 1961.Also had a paper round and went to Golden Hillock Rd. School for a couple of years. Seem to...

I left Bum in 1961, I think Aldi was still at school. Cheers Tim

To me the bit between Walford Rd and Warwick Rd was a kind of no-mans land. A friend of the family who lived in Evelyn Rd. Sparkhill told how there was a Toll Gate on Stratford Rd at The Mermaid Pub when her mother was a young girl which I think would have been pre WW1. Maybe this is why I had...

I had a mate, think his name was Jimmy James who drove the vehicles from the production line at Longbridge, paid piece rate. Well paid but bingles were also deducted. Too many of those and you were stood down for a period, ala The Sin Bin. Also had a brother-in-law who was a fireman when they...

Viv think it would be the 1930s and he is playing on The White Russian sympathy, At the Balalaika Alan Jones movie sort of shingle ? Cheers Tim