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Re: Birmingham History A TRUE BRUMMIE. Historically it is said that a True Cockney would be " One born within the sound of the Bow-Bells of St Mary-le-bows church in Cheapsiide,London ". Here's one to ponder then. What might our our equivalent be for a " True BRUMMIE " ?

Re: Birmingham History The Code. Hopefully posting now a photo of the back of that letter.

Re: Birmingham History The Code. Hopefully posting now one side of that letter

Re: Birmingham History THE CODE. Kingstanding ( 1940 ). Mom's and Dad's gathered to make the decision regarding whether to allow their children to be evacuated or not. The decision in General was made to accept the evacuation. My Dad suggested to me that when I sent any letter home that I...

Thanked, Thankee Mohawk . That's more like it. Good Man.

Evening moHawk. I did a little experiment only yesterday . I ' rotated ' the photo stored in my IPad (180 degrees). Was tempted to copy this and send it to-day but I wasn't too sure what the out come might have been so as you see I've posted the ' original ' IPad photo. See what happens now...

This previous posting is identical to the original ( No 1 post ). BUT. As experimented with and tried out by ' oldMohawk ' it appears that IPad viewers interested will need to ' tap ' on to the upside down thumbnail picture to expose the full screen picture ( the right way up ). For Laptop...

Since I no longer have the original painting I am unable to take another IPad photo. So using the original IPad photo I try again to post it on this thread.

Sunset painting ( Post No 1 ). Apologies to one and all. Cannot correct the failure of the ' posted photo '

To oldMohawk. I will try contacting ' admin '. I believe that the presentation as it stands is not suitable for the Forum and can only confuse any ' viewers '. Thank you again.

To oldMohawk. Sunset painting problem ( loss of full size painting image ). I wonder if it is possible that the ' edited ' exercise might have something to do with it. It seemed to operate OK previously.

Sunset painting. Is anyone else having a problem bringing up the painting from the " Attached Imagies " ?

To mhemery. The geezer ' topping up ' the plastic cup. Cheers Michael.

Thank you oldMohawk. Information duly noted. Good man.

Hello oldMohawk. Yes I photoed them using the IPad camera. Yes it looks like I've got the IPad lock on. I'm saying this because I've just looked at " lock on " via " Settings " and then " General " and there it seems to tell me that " lock on " is Set.

Dear BernardR. I'm trying to figure out if and where I might be doing something wrong. Doing a ' handstand ' to view won't be popular. Best Wishes.

For a little girl that wanted her own painting " of a horse ". A concocted painting by Roy Blakey. 2013. TO VIEW PAINTING. TAP on top image link.

Dear mhemery. Not quite friend. There was another supply waiting down at the B&B for the next days march. Best Wishes.

Three Birmingham lads on a holiday break. Painting by Roy Blakey. ( 1989 ).

Re: Birmingham History Popping back a bit ( Around Brum ). Little things that used to occur around Birmingham, things that you do not see very much of now and things that we probably won't be seeing anymore. (1) Before drinking mugs became popular the ' Cup and Saucer ' was the order of the...