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  1. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Ironically I have birth family there too. Is that a bell maker? I went to school with a Margaret Bellchamber.
  2. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    I used to have to take the night safe to the bank that the cashiers had taken in the day. Women were not allowed to. I was not allowed to go on my own and it was often difficult to get someone from any department to go with me. My mate took over from me and he took it on his own and got mugged...
  3. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    WUMPTY. I used tonadministrate their adverts then the 'executive' from there became our MD. It didn't get me a promotion knowing him but it put me in good stead & treated with respect. Which was thin on the ground then.,
  4. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    In the 60s my grandad's colleague & his wife sat in the front, his daughter sat on a chair in the back of the van & hung on to the back of their seats. On my first holiday in Dublin in my teens in the back of a mini van I rolled about in a bucket seat without legs, it had a broken central...
  5. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    How many of us went long car joyrneys on holiday on somebody's lap. Or sat on a chair in the back of a van.
  6. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Well that accounts for my friend's mum, I wonder what her dad was in ?
  7. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    I was allowed a handful of toys to take on holiday, the ones with names, that fitted in my little suitcase, I sat on to squash the soft toys in. Now our grandchildren bring packing cases full.
  8. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    I would have loved that, the animals were Britains so maybe the farm was . The boy next door had a hay barn & a conveyor belt for grain sacks he powered turning a handle. When we got home from our holidays I would check on my farm, & other toys.
  9. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    My thumb won't work. I am giving you a thumb.Was this the same as the A.T.S. or have I got it wrong. ? My friend's parents met in the A.T.S. I thought it was. They wore uniforms .
  10. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    They were red 'eggs'! I was given some very old wooden children's dominoes, i thought tgey looked like Cotswold stone . I used them as brick shelters in my model farm. I still have them. I don't see many toy farms these days but they still sell them in France.
  11. I Am Nico

    Where was your first holiday?

    I REMEMBER OY I remember our caravan holiday in Dawlish or Dawlish Warren, we always rented the same caravan. It was white , I even remember the number.The site had putting, and a tennis court and lots of grass. A river ran through with ducks on it and it flooded. I paddled up to my knees...
  12. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    I do but they may have not stayed long.
  13. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    That's a good photo. I think my quest (No57) may not have been a shop after all in 1920. A possibility is wasn't.
  14. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    Ha great I can look for photos if it. Thank you.
  15. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    White building on the corner, could be a pub?
  16. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    Thank you
  17. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    I am told it was near the slaughterhouse can anyone tell.me if that is correct.?
  18. I Am Nico

    Sherlock Street

    Thank you so much
  19. I Am Nico

    Pubs Of The Past

    We used to have an older conductor who shouted the pubs' nicknames here, like The Bolshy, Ma Cooper's Ma Brown's, The Fleapit cinema, The Cabbage Club etc
  20. I Am Nico

    Pubs Of The Past

    Yes they sure did. My Nan said the bus conductors shouted the names out as there was always one by a bus stop. e.g. The Old Cat yer mother in law ! whilst being on the bus,with hers, who had a go at the conductor, to then young Nan's embarrassment, her mother in law was true to her description!
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