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My late mother-in-law was a Barton from that family and married George Taylor. My wife, Audrey, has a stone ginger beer bottle, with the Barton logo on it, to prove it! What is your particular interest in the Bartons? ..my wife is fascinated to know. She can certainly help with info about...

Sorry.You've lost.me. what's that got to do with growing up in Birmingham as distinct from anywhere else in the UK?

The Baker Street that I knew very well as a schoolboy was in Sparkhill/Sparkbrook....it was (is?) a continuation from the Warwick Road traffic lights of Golden Hillock Road... and a short distance from Golden Hillock Road School, now one of those under scrutiny for the Islam extremist issue. I...

Re: City Centre Photo Album What about that monstrosity of a new library ? I'm sure it's fabulous inside but outside? What the devil is it supposed to be' A birdcage. '

...I came across those 'sub-divisions' for sarcasm when I was in the RAF (1951-53), stationed at Church Lawford, near Rugby. It was an Airfield Construction Depot so lots of blokes were learning to move tons of soil around and build things...while my mates and I worked on station HQ as...

I like your one- liner...good old Brummie or Black Country humour..like : "I'll have to go home now....missus has got laryngitis. I'm not missing that"

I was an old married man of 26 and father of the first of four children in 1959...nightclubs were off limits by then !!!!

Not sure if you already been asked this Jayell but are you sure it wasn't The Casino Dance Hall near the corner of Corporation St and Lower Priory by the Old Square? The Cabin pub was near there. I thought I had posted some memories of The Casino dance hall a few days ago but not sure that they...

I never had the nerve to go for the Teddy Boy look but I wouldn't go to a dance without pressing a sharp crease in my trousers first and combing my hair into place (helped by a touch of Dennis Compton brylcream) with a little quiff. And, like you, never missed a chance to look in a shop window...

Quite right, Paul....unfortunately 'Taffy' Davies wasn't a good, civilised Brummie like us....can't think what his nationality might have been...!!!!

I went to Camp Hill, when it was in Camp Hill before the move to King's Heath. We had the same four Houses then...my brother, Tony, two years ahead of me, and I were in Seymour House and as I recall they were mostly for sporting events, cricket or rugby with inter-house competitions. I was...

You girls didn't have to work hard to look good to me...lipstick, facial make-up, all that stuff was not what most lads found attractive...it was the lovely, natural girl underneath the 'face paint' that we (or certainly I...) fell for!!!! Can you imagine that, falling in love with a bag full...

Mention of The Tower Ballroom (later, for a while The New Gay Tower!!!) sure does bring back some memories, Rosie. One of our contributors, Eddie, used to play drums there, in the Cliff Deeley band before he spread his craft far and wide, working with some world-famous artists in the States and...

Roy's recollections of adolescence set me thinking and I don't quite recall it like that, myself. A chance to leave school, wear long trousers at last, get a job (hundreds of vacancies in the old tabloid Birmingham Mail), try and look grown up, put a sharp crease in your new long trousers, watch...

...yeah, it was the fleapit, Eddie. A pretty apt name, too. I think the other one was the 'Moseley' as you say. There was the Carlton not far away and, along the Coventry Road, Small Heath were the Grange, the Coronet and the Kingston. Heck, I envy you your copperplate handwriting. My...

...Smudger reckoned there was 'nowt wrong with my memory' but like, many elderly folk, it's short-term that's the problem. I sometimes can't remember what I've forgotten a moment ago or what it is I'm supposed to be trying to remember...I can rattle off Aston Villa's winning FA Cup team in 1957...

Our Saturday morning matinee at the pictures was at the Olympia on Ladypool Road and what a madhouse it was, too, full of shouting, noisy kids. A lot of the seats had been torn open so that sponge rubber could be ripped out and thrown around. Like in Roy's picture house programme, Buck Jones...

Thanks for the response....For any interested old Villa fans out there Villa's party on that tour (arranged by the famous Villa coach Jimmy Hogan who had been Austria's international coach in the 1930s) included the likes of Frankie Broome (an all-time hero of mine), Eric Houghton (1957 FA...

Eddie...the answer to the question is 'yes' Villa did beat a German Select X1 not once but twice on a three-match tour to Germany in May 1938 and there's a cracking true story to it. For the first match, in Berlin, there was a 70,000 crowd on a sizzling hot day, and the Villa players were...

You can't beat the old jokes can you?