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Re: Birmingham History STOP ME AND BUY ONE. A great treat for the the kids playing in the streets. This person could be seen cycling down the road on a TRICYCLE with an ICE BOX mounted over the front two wheels. The sign written on the side of the box " Stop me and buy one " got the kids...

As you say oldMohawk, one wonders if the front line troops where receiving such news from the ' home front ' prior to the Truce. My guess would be that the ' Trench Lads ' ( on both sides ) where caught up in a totally unusual situation and where reacting purely individualistically.

Here is a further useful ' Link ' referring to that unusual event during Worlld War One. Link : www.christmastruce.co.uk/

Re: Birmingham History Schoolboy Playground Traders. I have memories of schoolboy Souvenir and Marble traders operating in the school Playground ( Peckham Road School, Kingstanding, around 1941 ). The ' set up ' would take place during school playground times. Something like 8 to 12 young...

The Christmas Truce. 1914 ( WW1 ). A concise article referring to this unusual event. www.historicaleye.com/xmastruce.html

Re: Birmingham History Brum Gang ? A video worth having a look at with reference to one of the old gangs in Brum. Namely " The Peaky Blinders". ( By Carl Chinn ). (1) Go to Google. (2) Input: Carl Chinn Peaky Blinders. (3). Then select : New Video with Carl Chinn.

Ref: Painting/Stories of ' Brum Characters from the past '. I hope that this link will show the latest Painting/Story. www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk/roy_blakey.html#busker

THE QUEUE Sunday afternoon Cinema. The Commisioner comes to the front of the Odeon and announces to the people waiting to gain entrance " Two SEATS available and three STANDING at the back ". Various groups in the queue consider this. Typical comments following this announcement would have...

Birchfield Road dance school. ( Enid Goodwins ). Enid Goodwins dance school was a delight for many Birmingham people. Enid was the rather stern ' principle'. Her dance partner and assistant was Charles. One of her other dance assistants was Ethel. On the ' door ' was George, who would check...

Birchfield Road dance school. ( Enid Goodwins ). Enid Goodwins dance school was a delight for many Birmingham people. Enid was the rather stern ' principle'. Her dance partner and assistant was Charles. One of her other dance assistants was Ethel. On the ' door ' was George, who would check...

Re: Birmingham History Those Cat casualties Pauline. How's about the chances of a few Foxes knocking about and on the hunt around Yardley Wood at that time ?

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. During National Service and just having completed basic and trade training some of us guys where shipped overseas to Egypt. Our first stopping off place was a ' dispersal camp', where individuals where sorted out to join various working units depending on their...

Re: Birmingham History Our Snow Stock. ( 1940 to 1945 ish ). You know how kids love their SNOW and they like to make full use of it whilst it's around and then they find it all disappointing when it all turns to Slush and starts to disappear . Do you remember as a kid playing out in the snow...

Re: Birmingham History It's Match Day again. ( 1943- 1950 ish) Not many families at this time had a car so the football fans met up in their own roads and districts and made their way to the big stadiums in Brum by bus,walking or cycling. Buses in general where regular and numerous at this...

Re: Birmingham History Coming back to the introduction of Cycle Speedway as a ' new sport ' that had come to Birmingham around 1946. I've found a ' link ' that supplies a bit more information on the subject. The link refers to one of the teams from Birmingham, namely, ' The Perry Barr Juniors...

Re: Birmingham History The ANDERSON,the VEGGIE PLOT and the XMAS dinner. Kingstanding would have been an example of the movement of parts of the population of Birmingham around the 1930's. Slum clearance and thinning out began to take place. New Council tenants came to Kingstanding from...

Re: Birmingham History I see that you also found yourself wearing ' Clogs ' Mike. What I'm trying to figure out is why where some of us wearing them. I don't think that they would have been ' first choice ' by our parents so there must have been a specific reason. I remember that all of the...

Re: Birmingham History FOR EXPORT ONLY / BUY BRTISH. During early post WW2 years, Britain was still in the grips of huge debts largely brought about by the monetary cost of fighting the war and then the costs of trying to change and re-build after the material damage effects of the war. The...

Re: Birmingham History Has anyone got any memories or views regarding some Birmingham kids wearing ' CLOG ' shoes ( Wooden soles with thin leather uppers ) sometime during the period of WW2. My own memory says it seemed that these clog shoes where only used by some of the kids over a short...

Nights of fun at the Crystal Palace. Dance Nights. There was certainly no frills about the internal basic infrastructure of the Crystal Palace but what a great venue for the occasional big dance events. It laid on all the primary requirements in the way of a huge dance floor, a large raised...