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  1. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    I so agree . I am agreeing with Godber, not myself!
  2. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    We had a Tuckey too The Real Meat Company who closed recently, and we also had Putnam, Hillier, Dewhurst and the Co Op, in my area. Just Taylor now. But it was like that here. Sadly not now. Taylors have old photos projected on the shop interiors from yesteryear with rows of game etc and huge...
  3. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    We have John Taylor in Coventry, there used to be his cousin Alan Taylor & a relative in Balsall Common I think is still there.
  4. I Am Nico

    Martin Shaw.

    I had to take 2 buses to school as I wouldn't go to the one I was supppsed to, so it is possible. There were 6 of us.
  5. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    It was cool to carry a lighter, and to carry a plec (trum) even if you couldn't play. I lost a date being unable to play, I can now.
  6. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Less traditional &some TV enspired Christian names started creeping in. Mum's colleague called the baby Samantha Tabatha, from Bewitched. I had a classmate Dean, a Dallas, Daniel after the Blue Peter Baby , Tanya, the elephant,? that's what she got name called, Shane, Ross, Wayne...
  7. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Thoughts as much!. He was a jolly kid.
  8. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Or Leslie Caron in Gigi when she trims the end of Louis Jordan's cigar.
  9. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    I was at school in Coventry with a Peter & Julie Elliott I suspect not you.
  10. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    My partrner's late mum kept old book matches, tuns, in the bottom drawer of her cooker, under the oven I think we brought some back. She had very long matches too about 8 inches long! Her place was very late 50s 60s, untouched. Massive transistor radio. Stylish black and chrome. We said...
  11. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    It was cool but depending on the way you smoke, not talking with a fag dangling off your lip. or the way you blew the smoke, some cleaver clogs's could blow hoops., or the way you held it. Teenybops remember that word often held it backwards in their cupped palms in case they needed to disguise...
  12. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    My Black Country/Brummie family used to talk about coloured matches but I never saw any. Have any of you? Their flame was coloured too
  13. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Also Endeavour, Life On Mars, anything like that.
  14. I Am Nico

    Sweets

    Does anyone have their family ration books? I was given my grandfathers by my birth mother.
  15. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Thank you I hope it brought back good memories for you. My brain is so full and I survive on nostalgia. I think my present family {mostly all of my original family are gone,} are fed up with me emptying it so thank you for endulging me. The BHF is great for those of us who like to,. Really I was...
  16. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    My mum took the train home as usual that year from her job in Birmingham, the points froze at Stourbridge junction & she jumped off into snow up to her waist and walked to Amblecote collapsing when she got home. Women especially were ill equipped, no trousers or high boots then.
  17. I Am Nico

    Sweets

    It is used in France still, they are special too. Did we have berlingots in the uk. A refined boiled sweet, very fruity? As I tasted one & t brought back a memory. I liked the Weekend, jingle.
  18. I Am Nico

    Sweets

    Too sweet for me too but I liked anything with animals. I remember the chocolate mice, they were not sweet enough.
  19. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    We could do with that now as we have no street lamp outside us due to council budgets
  20. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    It reads like an episode of on the buses. My grandad was a bus driver, mum's dad, & dad's mum used to think if he was driving she didn't have to pay!
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