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Where we live in The Pinery Parker, Colorado USA we are overrun with Wild Turkeys they are a nuisance they scratch and poop all over the place

In 1947 I went at age 14 as an apprentice to the Birmingham Sculptor William Bloye until I went in the RAF at 18 for two years

Not sure if I have posted this before but as John Bishop Midland C&AC also knows, we raced our bikes a lot at Sutton Park This is one in 1951 that My Dad (GodBlessHim) took with his Kodak Brownie camera, remember those? as I was passing going up the hill, also one from Midland C&AC Roll Call was...

Lyn Happy Birthday from John in Parker, Colorado USA

Not sure which shops they were

Happy Birthday and many many more from Colorado USA

The hot potato man in the Bull Ring! Reading all the posts. it is sad to see some that are not with us anymore.

Have a great day and many many more from John Crump in Colorado USA

What is the sign lady with a girl?

Before I left England for the USA My Mother (God Bless her) had been in and out of the Women's Hospital. of course in typical English fashion, but no one talked about it. But I found out later when she passed away that she had some real medical problems, Had I known this I would never have left...

There also down that road to Acocks Green, it crossed a canal that we nippers used to go down to. Both my parents were cremated at Yardley Cemetery.

In the 1950s my band played at the Swan Pub upstairs in the front, on weekends. When we were kids, my sister Joan and I visited a relative that lived near there on Coventry Rd, you can see a Trolly Bus in the going by. I was about 5 or so then around 1938 or so

Watching the funeral in Parker, Colorado USA what a sad day for all.

In Colorado USA I had a new 1967? Rover 2000tc for a few years apart from no air con it was a fine machine that I drove all over the USA and went skiing in the Colorado Mountains with snow tyres no problem at all. later I had a Sterling that was nothing but trouble

I rode my bike every day there from Yardley I worked in cost accounting on the top floor 1953 on

Billy Haden had a barbers shop on top of Church rd before the Swan in the 1940s 1950s

That is one that was on Moat Lane it is the next door one to the Howells that their daughter June was my first girlfriend

I used to go fishing for tiddlers in the stream in Clelmsley Woods in the 1950s Beautiful countryside then

Prefabs on Moat Lane Yardley for year my first girl friend June Howell lived there