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Do you remember the lady who plsyed the piano?Not sure which floor it was,all the latest hits from sheet music.I would listen,enthralled while she played for a while,then half time and I expect she went away for a cup of tea(or maybe a G and T ) !! It was very difficult to keep away from the...

Hey,what about that Masons pop,surely it had to be the very best;it certainly seemed so in those long ago,much missed days.The big special bottle,the curly stopper with the thick rubber seal to keep your pop nice and fizzy!Even the labels were special.All the flavours were really tasty and the...

This week decided the dickies needed some more food and some new feeders as the old ones were getting a bit rusty and needed replacing.Went to local store that has good stuff(no rubbish for our dickies),got topped up with mixed seed,peanuts,suet fat balls,nyger seed,new feeders,the works.Took it...

I wonder if Woollies in the Bull Ring is not THE iconic memory of the past.It was part of so many other wonderful,but hopefully,not forgotten memories around it.The Midland Red and Corporation buses dropping off and picking up around St.Martin's,the barrow boys,the bloke in chains,Ernie...

Apart from train spotting(great excitement if it's a NAMER),in 1950 there was a quite a craze for collecting cigarette packets.A lad at school,Neville Howard,collected about 200,which,by other vollectors,was regarded with admiration and envy.There were plenty about,along the roadside,at football...

Cup of tea or not,we did see each week how Paul's love and care enriched many lives.I thought he would be quite happy to move home to Battersea to look after all his friends.I hope,maybe,we can all be so caring about each other. Be nice wouldn't it.? Tojo.

A caring man,Paul,will be missed by many,especially all his pals at Battersea. Tojo

Hey I just remembered a ferocious maths teacher Mr Wilde,called Jimmy,because of the boxer Jimmy Wilde."Jimmy"was well named because he was very handy with his hands.During one lesson,a kid committed some demeanour and Jimmy swiftly approached him."You see this hand said Jimmy to the lad while...

Hello Moe,I think I was getting ready to leave as you were starting but I expect we share many teacher memories Beak/Boss,Scotty,Float,Barney etc. Tojo

Hi Brummies,I posted earlier mentioning Mr Whiteley aka "The Beak"and how feared he was.Some time after I left school I was on a bus and as it turned into another road I sawMr Whiteley standing on the corner looking lonely and totally lost.I don't know if he really was having a "senior"moment...

Hey thanks John,that's got to be it and Rowington sounds right as well.The pub looks sort of familiar but surely its been updated from yhe 60s.Blimey! I just realised how long ago it was.Never mind,I'm still only about 14 really.Have you been to the Tom? I'm going when I get the chance--hope...

In the early 60s I used to go with a pal from work to a pub called The Old New Inn somewhere in the Lapworth area.I've tried,without success,to locate this pub.Does anyone remember it? Is it still going under another name perhaps? It was alongside the canal. Tojo.

Anyone remember Hardings bakery in Yardley? My dad had a bread round and went to Hardings to load up his van before delivering to quite a large rural area in north Warwickshire.I often went with him and well remember the delicious aroma of all that just baked bread. Tojo.

Thats exactly how I remember those times.Nobody seemed to be rushing around like mad,things were slow and sure.Yes it was peaceful.Will it come back? Sadly,I don't think it will by itself,like years ago but I believe we can and should,make our own "old days"whenever and wherever we can. LET'S DO...

Glad I wasn't with you when you saw him--I think new pants would have been required ! I think he was only a little bloke but he sure was scary. Tojo.

Hey Welder,did you live in Tile Cross? I lived at the farm opposite the White Hart for many years, up to 62. I knew of old Harrard but only saw him once or twice.He was a mystery man to us kids and we were all a bit scared of him.He lived at this(to us) spooky hall or mansion and nobody seemed...

I was thinking some more about those old pubs in the old times with the old gaffers always there as though part of the fixtures and fittings often playing crib or shuffling the doms.What magic times,but you only realised it much later--like now !. I'm thinking that modern pubs are much...

I lived at a farm in Tile Cross opposite the White Hart pub,which I believe has been rebuilt.In those days you had a choice of beer--a pint of mild or half a mild!! That was it !! At Xmas however,M & B put on their special Old Ale.If I remember correctly,it was 2 bob for a half and it was lovely...

My first experience of the racing world was a visit to Bromford Bridge in tbe late 50s. What a fantastic sight and occasion ! I arrived in the silver ring just in time to see Brian Swift win on Miss Romper to be followed by an afternoon of strange new sights and sounds.The noise,shouts...

I went to Waverley 1946-1952 and remember Miss Howarth being known as Float,never knew why! The hesdmaster was Mr Whiteley aka the beak/the boss.Although he looked a meek and mild man,he was feared throughout the school,particularly among the boys,of whom he "coshed" many. A devil may care lad...