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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    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...
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    The fings people say

    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? :)
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    Chocolate Concrete

    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...
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    caylie not sherbet

    :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...
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    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    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...
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    Aston Cross Industry's Smells

    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...
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    Stocker (s?) and Purvis ?

    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...
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