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Amazing photographs!!! :smitten: My Grandmother used to tell me about jobs she did during the war and her mothers jobs etc.. I hadn't realised till seeing these pictures just how hard life must have been in those days. :'( Didn't these women get to grips with these tough jobs in those days...

Mazbeth - that made me laugh about the waitressing job!! I did that type of job in Llandudno at a hotel and one lady was really rude to me "she got the job cause she could write" and she complained about just about everything all the way through the weeks holiday!! So by friday lunch my patience...

Fergie - I know Arkley Road and Lakey Lane School (my susters went there 1975 onwords - We lived Tavistock Road (near the Gospel Oak/Langley Lane sort of area) we went to Pitmaston school. I still keep in touch with some of my school friends from home - I guess I never really left Brum - just...

Robert and Fergie, Yes I did live Hall Green when I was in Secondary school years (late 70's) - I have lived in North Wales since 1982 Llandudno / Conwy area now. I still come back to B'ham as I have family still there so I do visit often - seems to change all the time there - everytime I come...

Pubs I can remember from childhood in Birmingham are Perry Common the Crossways and College Arms. Nechell's The Rocket Hall Green /Acocks Green The Dolphin, Three Magpies, Gospel Oak. There was a pub we did drive out to in the summertime in my teens when we finally got a car was the Black...

Alf, that site is funny :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: A GOOD REMINDER OF THE STRANGE THINGS WE SAY?? It really is true English is such a difficult language to master!! Aston my mum laughs at my "Terah - see ya later" she still calls me "me babby" and despite being the eldest in my family I am...

Astonian & Gillian, I have lived away from B'ham for over 20 years now and people often try guess my accent - usually they'll say southern or guess Liverpool (sure people are deaf around here :2funny:) I sound nothing like Liverpool it's just a wild guess from people who haven't a clue where I...

Cromwell - Ah Right!! :0) Look forward to reading about these people - I know so little about the Ravenhall's in my tree so far but will get to researching and knowing more very soon - I mentioned it incase it helped anyone as I have the marriage certificate for Elizabeth etc.. so far - it may...

i'VE GOT SOME RAVENHALL'S IN MY FAMILY TREE - An Elizabeth Ravenhall (c1872) Her Dad was Alfred - he was a Blacksmith - Elizabeth had a sister Agnes - not sure of others yet etc.. as I am still researching these people - all I know is there was a Sandy Lane census entry for them in 1901. Not...

WASN'T THERE A LOT OF SHOPS IN THOSE DAYS?? Cromwell St seemed to have all sorts of shops :) I can remember places like Cromwell St as a vague memory from childhood as we lived in Dollman St for a while before it was demolished - I'd forgotten how many shops there were in those days. It's a...

Hiya Gillian, I won't have a proper look until this evening - but I heard there is some Aston stuff there and some old maps and stuff on other areas of Birmingham etc.. I am sure it will be good to read through if only for back ground reading etc..?? I shall spend some time there later!!

Just fount this website that maybe helpful for researchers - not sure if they have been mentioned on here before but thought I'd show them anyway incase they help someone with background information etc.. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp...

Brenda - Aligator?? you were brave!!! :2funny: I would have imagined it to have tasted fishy with spending all the time in water?? Giant rats over there too?? ha ha Reminds me of when I went to Dominican Republic and they served "Rhum goat curry" - ha ha not a chance of me ever trying anything...

My Mum and Grandmother always said "stop mooching" :2funny: :2funny: Usually cause we were looking in cupboards for sweets, biscuits - generally stuff we shouldn't have been looking for as kids - or they'd say it if we were looking in sideboard drawers for something and perhaps shoudn't be...

Thank you so much for that!! :smitten: I used to love that roundabout when I was a child - I shall put that in my scrapbook for my mum as she had to sit there for hours watching that go round and round when we were little ha ha It will bring back so ,amy memories for het too!! :smitten:

My Grandmother used to work in the refreshment bar at Snowhill Station many years ago - she met lots of famous people like Laurel and Hardy there!! :D

Bestie, Thank you so much for that - lovely picture for my scrap book ;D

Thanks Jenny Ann - I shall have a look at that now :)

I am sure we said Hacky too when we played hide and seek - was told it's bad to drop H's ?? Had to laugh about ambidextrous (sp?) thing - I have two sons who are both Ambi.. thingymyjig - when they were little and learning to draw and write I write with my right hand - while their dad writes...

Thank you so much - I did try find a picture but seem to have found everything but this church!! ;)