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There used to be a Hot Dog company in Brum called Ted's Ot Dogs with barrows at various sites around the city. Right now you're thinking what has this got to do with the Hipp' ? Well the owner of Ted's was one Ted Westley, who also played trombone in the orchestra and was the Birmingham Rep...

The white building on the left was Halfords Head Office which became West Midlands Council offices.

Cadbury Spira Milk chocolate in a twisted hollow spiral.

That looks like a Daimler Fleetline which went into service in 1965 that one could even be Reg: BON 472C Chassis: Daimler Fleetline Engine : CRG6 Gardner 6LX Body:Marshall SD That let out the Nurd in me lol Oh and to add to the picture the van parked on the right next to the ramp is a...

Still born babies would have been baptised and interred at a local cemetery, or a cemetery that the family choose.

I went to the Night Out to see Danny La Rue. Very good show and all while I had a meal at the table. Great evening out.

I have to say I /we seem to be selling a lot more hessian of late, as people make things instead of going out and buying the finished product. Mind you buying a peg rug is not easy these days.

I'm sure the Crown was on the corner of Hill St and Station Street.

You were lucky.:rolleyes: We only had the wheels from a pram. Mind you if you let it run down hill it went really fast, but the brakes were rubbish :sneakiness:

I remember the Beaufort had large dark brown wooden doors with small glass windows. When you went into the auditorium there were brass polls with velvet curtains to cut out the light when the doors were opened.

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Bit of a cross post but Twinco Picnic Wear and Straton Compacts and Dressing Table items. Bywaters Pork Pies they made the same pies as Millers in Poole which have closed down. Zwan cocktail sausages Seen on many tables at parties, and in there larger incarnation Hot Dogs sold from...

Has anyone got any pictures of the town side of the railway bridge at Aston Station, in the late 60's there was a scrapyard there that was owned by Pat Roach. Funny how his name pops up all over the place on these forums.

I have a feeling you are right. Times have changed and in many cases they are not going to get any better. We have lost so much and had so much forced up on us with no chance to change things.

I remember one of the thing that they made used the inside of clam shells which was cut into the shapes for the back of hair brushes, combs and mirrors. They called it Mother of Pearl and once it was finished with there was a load of it in the waste bins. I worked in the coloring department...

Stitcher a lot of your picture posts I have been unable to see due to the hack but the ones I can see I really enjoy. I remember Brum partly from the Fifties when my parents brought me up from Dorset to see my Step-sister, we arrived at Snow Hill Station and I loved the whole thing the sounds...

Spaghetti Junction was opened for the first time today completing the final part of the Midland Links Motorways.

I used to have an Ice Cream cart at the entrance to the Rag the one across the road from the slope next to St Martins. I remember the guy tossing the plates in the air, I always wondered how many he smashed getting it right.

The Jacy was in Station Street it opened it's doors at 10:30am and ran a mixture of Newsreels, British Pathe, Cartoons and Batman, Flash Gordon, Three Stooges, Buck Rogers and Captain America to name a few. Here's the start of a Flash Gordon series that ran at the Jacy enjoy...

I have just remembered when Meg Richardson got married at the Cathedral in Colmore Row. It was meant to be a small private wedding so the script went. Thousands of people turned up to watch the happy couple as they emerged from the Cathedral, it was really bizarre. They tried really hard to...