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I dont know if you all have this wrong. I lived in Holte rd,is that is the rd you are thinking of Astonion? The club was on the corner of there and it went round into witton lane. It was the Labour club for many many years and my dad was a member and drank and played snooker there. I did put a...

The only Brum Cavern I can recall was in Small Heath, Wordsworth rd, I am sure we got the no 11 to it. great groups on and the place to go if you were a mod

Just had a look, I only asked as my uncle and aunt used to keep it, probably in the 1950's 56 onwards perhaps, they were Eno and Winnie two very large people and great fun. Can anyone remember them? they went on to Heathway I think it was called, it was a pub a bit like a bungelow all one level...

Are you on about the sportsman round the corner from cato street north by the gas works?

yes Sylvia it was the municipal I had a oval money box from there, you had to fill it up and then take it down to have it put into your bank book. The shop that sold the nightie's also sold other things jumpers gloves scarfs ect, you would remember it the 5 and 7 bus stop was outside it going...

that pic of IMI post 31, the window with the curtain on that's where my dad used to be, he was WP 49 and always had very shinny buttons on his uniform and perfectly shone shoes. It was a ritual in our house to get the blacking box out and the brushes and a special tool for cleaning his buttons...

There was a lovely drapers I think we called them by the florist thay ena upton (remember her Jean) that i got all my babydoll PJ's from, Kayser Bonder, very expensive but they were lovely. Sylvia i bet you had some from there?//

Yes it would be about that time Ray

Only one i can remember was Richards on witton rd. Does anyone remember the fire engine going into the co op window, me and my dad were on the witton at the time and dad being a member of the St Johns helped with the injured, I had to just stand there and watch it was very gory

Bab Is nice, babe is what I hate, cant stand it, i could scream when i hear some one say "alright babe" i wont go on I can feel myself getting angry just thinking about it

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What was the shoe shop called I mentioned in my earlier post, I remember it had 2 rounded widows with a door on the middle set back, You could stand out of the cold in there while waiting for the 5 or 7 bus to take you to the Laccarnoo Monday nights

I am trying to recall whether there was a island in the middle or not. There was Aston pub, over the way Browns meat and pie shop, over from them co-op shop and coal merchants, then the witton arms, over from them a shoe shop by the no 5 and 7 bus stop then past the municiple bank and round to...

I think you are right about the fashion shop, I am sure 2 brothers owned it at some time, ones name was Bernard and he used to be a window dresser if i am correct. He used to bring his old mom down to my shop on the flat Hockley to have her hair done. She was lovely and had lovely white hair, I...

Yes Jean I meant Aston Lane but looking again maybe not

Is it at the top of witton lane by the no 11 bus stop the crown and cushion just over the rd. It might not be called witton lane but if you carried on down on the 11 you got to the witton

When my dad was on the works police for Kynochs I am sure he used to go to Wellhead lane sometimes, dont know why perhaps there was another place there?

That is brilliant ans so life like

And you have Alf, the weather is great at the moment but Tony said he heard on the news that we are going to get some snow soon.

I dont think we had credit cards then did we Alf??? in the 60's, if you had one you must have been very posh