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What a classic social history picture. Best of all is the guy wearing a tie on the site. No hi vis jackets, safety boots or hard hats, no ear defenders and most interesting of all no mechanical plant. The strange thing is that although the picture is only 70 years old, it shows the...

Touche Bob

John Thanks for posting a fascinating article. The 'boom box of the day and if you were not wearing a hat on a wet day,, you could pull the horn over your head. Boom Boom Bob

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Thank you all so much, now me and the four yeaŕ old next door are going to play with your ideas, I will let you now how I get on. Bob

Lady P How cruel at this point in the pandemic to show a man a picture of a pub.....how could you:):):) Bob

Mine was purple well a sort of light lilac colour.

.....and so say all of us, ask a question and the answer is there before you have posted it. Bob

The lady wife and I had our second jabs last night, 1705 hrs, Westward Ho! Baptisit Church. They were doing 1st and 2nd jabs, so running a little behind times with everyone turning up early. But after a wait (twas zunny and warm), got done and then down to the sea front for a 'ockings ice...

Very surprised that none of the cognoscenti have commented on the new Tuesday night programme 'All That Glitters' that came from the Jewellery Quarter, from the School? that is located there. What I had not realised was that Birmingham was still such an important centre when it came to...

Thank you Cookie, another blast from my past, after Chester Road, Baptist (never knew the reason why), but the Cottons (he was the Pastor) moved from over the road and we were suddenly going to Boldmere. Dad and I followed the football team for years, alternating them with Villa, although one...

Takes, thank you for the Erdington photos, brought back some memories. Bob

Many thanks, remember the Kiffs and the Ponters, at 392 were the Dudleys, 394 the Millers, at 398 the Grays, 400 the Greenhouses. Last of the older pre war houses lived Mr Wall the bus inspector. I live in North Devon now, retired last Thursday.. Bob

Robin I lived up the road at 396 from 39 to 59 and Mum and Dad left about 61, I went to Green Lanes and BVGS, the boy Edwards whose Dad ran the Greyhound also went to BVGS. The only names of Children were John and Jill Milner, Barry and Susan Gray and the Glendon or Glendenning boys who...

Lady P Thanks for the pictures, Dad and I could be amongst those spectators Bob

Gosh what a picture, as there was nothing except thee three cottages and the 'Barracks' above the Greyhound until the late twenties and early thirties and I think this applies also to most of Court Lane from just below the Greyhound and the old terrace of houses that included Mrs Davies's shop...

Thanks to you all for your help, advice and pleasant words, any problems, I know where to come Bob

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Are there any pictures of Short Heath Park in Court Lane and Goosemoor Lane. Not a particularly interesting park, no boating lake or band stand, just some football pitches and changing rooms. I used to be a Sunday morning regular late forties early fifties to watch the football matches Bob

Yesterday was the first day of my retirement. Beautiful day, hot, got sunburnt, my youngest son, his wife and my granddaughter, came to the garden for a socially distanced picnic, Saffron buns, jam and cream and champagne. After working continuously since I was 16, (68 years), I felt the...