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  1. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Mrs Maguire she was a liar took her a way in a black Mariah, and they set her pants on fire, not much of a tune though.
  2. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    I was in the school choir which I loved and we got out of lessons for choir practice when there something special like the school concert, we sang Blow The Wind Southerly, The Cuckoo and Westering Home, Would She We Here, The Lewis Tramping Song, Mairie's Wedding etc. and the Christmas Carol...
  3. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Gathering Peasecods!!
  4. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    We did country dancing at school. I was captain of my team partnering Elaine Hancock. A big wench bigger now. We were the worst of 4 teams but we had the best laugh. Neil & Christopher had to dance together they hated it. Neil had to be the girl., And when we did dances in a big ring like In...
  5. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Did you have the small blue hymn book?
  6. I Am Nico

    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    It was sandman softy sweeping, I mistyped.And lady moon keeps shining not whingeing! Mac changes things I am sure. It is time for me to renew Nan's little kerbstone plaque is why I was reminded of her.
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Fantastic voice gives me shivers and reminds me of Nan. I didn't know the introduction. She sang Loola Loola Loola Loola bye bye, does ya want the moon was play with, etc in her Black Country accent. And Go to sleep my baby. close your pretty eyes, sandal softly sweeping through the darkened...
  8. I Am Nico

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    I just noticed some old tramlines or the indentations of some in Coventry, and thought of this site. Not quite the same but similar. You must have a some left too. What struck me was it was a like rather than a track to nowhere more like in to another dimension.
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    I made a new friend last year who is Yorkshire born and bread. I was only in Birmingham for a matter of weeks and was raised in Coventry. He said, jokingly, that that Yorkshire people perceive Brummies to be thick, because of their accent. I replied that it's funny he should say that as we...
  10. I Am Nico

    Pubs Of The Past

    In a previous posting there is a photo of The Gough Arms. Can you tell me where its name derives from? If I have asked this before I apologise my memory plays tricks. But I could tell you what happened years ago.
  11. I Am Nico

    National Trust Back to Back houses Inge Street & Hurst Street

    I have been talking to many over the years, how so many babies were lost during washing day. And not just washing day. So sad. Women worked so hard well everyone did but there were no concessions for them then
  12. I Am Nico

    Street furniture

    I would uptick everybody I have been locked ewt!
  13. I Am Nico

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    Superb
  14. I Am Nico

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    The Alexandra Cov (the Flea Pit) showed foreign films & mucky ones , gran said, & some were foreign & mucky! But she stayed till the end, cos she' d paid, she said.
  15. I Am Nico

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    In what way diffent?
  16. I Am Nico

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    I had to say the "when theTatler was the best seller," In a weird school play called Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear, I was the dad I always hot old gittish parts, but I got a part, So .. we asked teach what the Tatler was, .
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    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    Wasnt the Tatler a newspaper.
  18. I Am Nico

    National Trust Back to Back houses Inge Street & Hurst Street

    I was told the jug & basin on a stand was called a dry sink.
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    National Trust Back to Back houses Inge Street & Hurst Street

    I think you had to wipe it first. I remember the stiff clothes they would stand up on their own. It took me years to realise what a clowzorse actually meant! And the bungole where it was kept.
  20. I Am Nico

    National Trust Back to Back houses Inge Street & Hurst Street

    Our hinges were fabric which wore and it all went very wobbly with the weight of the washing & the dog knocked it over with his tail . He also ate the ironing board he was not popular.
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