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I remember Les's Cafe on Dollman Street too!! Mum used to send me over sometimes for breakfast sandwiches etc.. Les used to make me a "Tomatoe Dip" to eat while I waited - it was doorstep bread dipped in bacon juices and then tomatoe juices Mmmm!! I loved it :smitten: Isn't it amazing how bacon...

It's one thing we Brummies do is speak as we find ;D Those stories made me laugh - sometimes it's better we say nothing? :)

Thanks for that I so loved this at school ha ha the best part was when you hit it with the spoon to break it and either the spoons bent - or the slice of concrete went flying across table to someone else boo hoo!!! Great fun if someone else's slice came across table to you though and you ended...

:crazy2: Mmmm!!! Caylie I loved it - ised to buy it to eat with a lolly pop if I had the money - otherwise a sticky coloured finger that took ages to wash clean!! There used to be a little sweet shop on Dolman Street in Nechells that sold it - I can't remember the name of it though. On...

I don't think we are ever too old to be called "Bab" - I am in my 40's now and my younger brother brother still calls me "Bab". I visited home last week and walked around the Bull Ring Markets and so many people said "anything else bab?" and called me Bab my sons found it hilarious my youngest...

My mother used to make us walk to visit my grandmother in Aston on Saturdays (we lived in Nechells at that time!! No surprise I am only 5ft 4 is it?? ha ha ). We'd walk along by where the HP and Ansells factories were - I loved the whifff of both those places!!!   We used to have Chips or...

I am trying to do my Family tree and need some help with information on some surnames I am researching - my family have Aston connections with all the names I am researching - although later some of these names did move to the Perry Common, Kingstanding areas (Erdington) I am looking for...