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  1. oldbrit

    11 Plus Exams

    I passed the ll+ exams OK, in fact I was always good at math and had the choice of a tech school or an art school, but my parents knew that I loved to draw and paint, so I was sent to Moseley School of art. This was I think? one of the many mistakes I made in my life, It affected my job, in the...
  2. oldbrit

    Record shops in Bham

    Funny how things come back to you, BUT re record shops.There was a shop downtown I cant remember just where, BUT as a teenager I was always chatting up the "BIRDS" GIRLS!! There was working at this record shop one I fancied, one day I went after having a meal and I got talking to her, she said...
  3. oldbrit

    Thanks - post your thanks here

    Dave, It is also amazing that we both went to Moseley School of Art!!!
  4. oldbrit

    Emirates A380 returning to BHX

    UAL and Continental did fly into Brum but they stopped why? We did fly from Denver Colorado USA to Heathrow on a UAL 787 not bad in business class, that is why I married a stewardess 57 years ago HaHa. Brings back memories of March 1957 Shannon to LaGuardia NY USA, took 14 hours on a 4 prop...
  5. oldbrit

    City And Midland Arcades

    I loved the arcades, places to get in out of the rain!!!
  6. oldbrit

    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Is that MY bike hanging there?
  7. oldbrit

    VJ DAY

    WHY?????
  8. oldbrit

    1st Aeroplane Flight

    Living in Yardley Brum in the late 1940s 1950s I use to see Yellow Tiger Moths flying from Eldom. In Virginia USA we saw one at an airport museum there great planes true flying on my bucket list of thing to do?
  9. oldbrit

    1st Aeroplane Flight

    March 1957 I with my friend Reg Hudman, we fly from Eldom to Shannon then onto New York USA
  10. oldbrit

    787 Boeing Dreamliner

    We did fly first class, on UAL 787 direct from Denver to Heathrow last year. I must say it was a grand trip. BUT the toilet seat auto was not working!! One advantage of of marrying a stewardess 57 years ago and flying standby HUH!!!
  11. oldbrit

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    When my son Paul was stationed in Japan. We paid a visit to Hiroshima, they have a museum with lots of photos of the horror of war and its effects on the people. Of course as Americans, not made very welcome. But then, the Germans and the Japanese committed much the same themselves, as we all...
  12. oldbrit

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Darning the socks remember that? Sewing on buttons on the flys on mens pants no zippers those days
  13. oldbrit

    National Service

    Guess who?
  14. oldbrit

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Our Moms KNITTED all our club colour cycling jersey sweaters "Knit one drop one pearl one remember that??? KNITTING!!! Would spend hours at night
  15. oldbrit

    Church Road, Yardley.

    When we first moved to Yardley we lived on a Cul de sac off Church Rd before the shops, that billy Hardens barber shop and a news Agents, across from Hardings backed onto the park that we could walk through to Cov rd by the Old Bill station anyone remember the name of it. long gone now
  16. oldbrit

    Scribbons cake factory Smeithwick

    My aunt Rene Snape, lived on Cheshire Rd Smethwick, she worked at a cake place maybe Scribbons or Windush? in the 1940s1950s
  17. oldbrit

    Coventry Road, Small Heath

    For years I rode my bike to work down the Cov Rd in Small Heath. Loved the park, spent hours walking around the lake with the paddle boats there. Happy times
  18. oldbrit

    H.P Sauce Birmingham

    loved HP wish I could still get it in the USA
  19. oldbrit

    Saint Mary's church Warwick

    Rode my bike manymant times to Warwick castle we would take Cov Rd to Stonebridge then through the ford on the way to Kenilworth then on to Warwick, happy days fun rides.
  20. oldbrit

    Sanitorium Little Bromwich Hospital Yardley Green Road Yardley Road

    Yardley GREEN Sanatorium? I lived in Yardley from 1933 to 1957 never heard of it???
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