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I went to the news Theatre in High Street regularly every Saturday night for about a year when I was about 14, as there was no comprehension of it being "unsafe" to journey alone at that age - unlike today. I needed 1/1d (old money) which was three pence for the bus fare from Hall Green and back...

I'm Stan Thomas, and I'm 89 next birthday. I was a mechanic along with John Taviner from 1962 until 1966 and we serviced and repaired all the Morris LD2 delivery vans and manager's and rep's cars at the garage in Milk Street, and were paid £14 a week. The caretaker's name there was Harry...

We still have a receipt in the family files dated April 1950 when my brother was taken to Steelhouse Lane and subsequently fined £1 for "causing a disturbance" (a quarter of his week's wages) - he was caught having a wee up an alley!

To conclude my post of December 2016, brother Tom was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and went into a nursing home where I would go to see him two or three times a week and we would invariably finish up talking about "old times" I was trying to arrange with Birmigham City Council for permission...

We had a "vending machine" at school back in the late 1940's into the 1950's - that's if you could call the teacher one - as we were all given a 1/3 pint bottle of milk each morning!! We also had school dinners which cost a few pennies, but were free if your family could not afford it. Then...

Our family lived at number 14 Brighton Place until 1940, then my dad was allocated a council house in Hall Green. Our parents first child was a girl born in 1928 but who died aged one month after being Christened Kathleen, and was burried in Warstone Lane cemetery on dad's 23rd birthday. They...