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Was that on the right hand side going down Soho Hill? If so for 1/9d (o.9p) you got a seat circa 1960 to 1961 often to see 2 A movies, instead of the usual A and B starter. One Friday night, we went in at 1830 to see A Town like Alice and The Glenn Miller Story, no break between the two...

The Browser I am on is Internet Explorer and the set up is Windows 7. Bob

Superb picture Mort, but doesn't it make you realise how lucky we are that we don't live and work like this anymore. Presumably the rods leaning against the roofs are steel bars with which the ladies worked. Obviously these were dedicated chain making buildings, not living accomodation as...

I used to have to walk up High Street Harborne to change the accumulator that powered Grandad's Radio, because in !945 the house in Greys Road was still all gas. Uncle John put the electricity in after Grandad died. The first batteries I really remember where the double ones which fitted the...

Yes Tammy by Debbie Reynolds, yuk Bob

Thanks Maurice Bob

On my works computer which is networked from an outside source and I keep on permanently, is now showing a strip that reads 'You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.' I cannot upgrade...

Particularly fond memories of the Gaumont I had met June at the jazz club in the Golden Cross, she lived in a bedsits in Hunton Hill (off Gra velly Hill), saw her home (to the front door of course) and asked if she would like to go to the pictures next week. The Gaumont.? Yes she said...

I was wrong it was a tram stop, I quote from Robert Harley's Birmingham Tramways; Page 188 Stopping Stations iii Yellow Plates. "Cars stop here by request". Same as Blue Plates, but when passing these points and any cross roads adjoining, cars must be driven "Dead Slow" This is from the...

Do you understand modern music, rap, hip hop, garage, shed, semi detached it all seems to be tuneless, loud, people playing the right notes but not in the right order, which leads me on to John Cages 4.33, nuff said. Strangely enough there are actually quite a lot of pieces of music that on...

Singing in the rain my sister bought it as her first record for our new radiogram. Now I quite like it. Bob

Another selfie!!!! Bob

Nice healthy looking tongue you've got, but I would suggest you look at a partial denture for the upper jaw, no wonder your avatar wears a mask. Bob

What elegance and sophistication, how ties have changed Bob

To bring a little tragedy to the table, the partner of a friend of my wife had his injection at the Doctors Surgery about 10 days ago, on Saturday he was feeling unwell, went to bed, worsened and it got so bad they called the ambulance at 2am Sunday morning and he was taken to hospital, he...

Yes, but I was thinking of it in its old liquid form in the glass bottle. Bob

The Polio vaccine invented by Jonathòn salk was given to most children on a sugar lump , a dose was dripped on to the sugar lump, it was a simple way of giving the vaccine without the fear of needles. The smallpox inoculation was achieved by a number of pinpricks, hence the strange rosette...

Agreed in the fifties did a number of long weekday journeys on the ticket, Nottingham, Leicester, Glloucester (via Cheltenham). No problems Bob

Agreed Bob

Welcome back, trust you are well, thanks Viv your pictures worked a miracle Bob