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Wow, you know I had forgotten half of those shops , banks etc that you remember but I now recall most of them, shopped in lots of them too, my mum worked in the deli at Waitrose for years. So many changes!

Yes I remember coming back up from Sheaf Lane ,woolworths, co-op, dry cleaners , butchers with the sawdust on the floor then around there I think a pet shop and a bank or building society on the corner?? I shopped there for years first with my mum when I was young then when i had my own...

What a strange poster to have up when you think about it, as you say, lots of the women did do war work doing mens jobs, they had to keep the country going while the men were away fighting.

Ha Ha thats exactly what i thought...

Ha ha, well you can buy kangaroo meat in some supermarkets so obviously someone eats it, but we dont eat it... I rather like them hopping around in the bush and the paddocks. We went to a festival some years ago where you could try crocodile, my husband tasted it and he said it tasted ok....and...

Hi, Williamstreeter, I am living in the back of beyond in Australia, haha, they would never eat something like faggots here , most aussies dont even like offal , who doesnt like offal?? I can buy a whole lambs liver for around one pound sterling, they are just not popular! Anyway when the...

Oh I love faggots chips and mushy peas. I cant get faggots here but my sister sent a recipe for them years ago and I did make them, they didnt quite taste the same but tasted good. I must have a look online for another recipe , I have mislaid mine.

Yes, I ate them when i was a kid too , I loved them even though they were pigs feet , they were a sticky delight haha

Thank you for posting photos of the Christmas meet up, loved looking through them, you all look like you had a jolly time. Oh and thank you for naming some of the faces . Wendy

I started going in 1967 just after I left school and started work, with a new friend, it maybe have just been built, not sure. I have google mapped it and the building is still there. Happy memories.

Hi Elmdon boy, no sorry but I went just down the road to Hatchford Brook youth Club in the 60's, not far from your club.

That is a That is a nice story Keith. had a chuckle about the wasted journey by the priest haha. I was also born there in 1950 , My mum wasn't discharged for 6 weeks as she was very very sick after she had me, she said i was one very spoilt baby when we left hospital as the nurses kept picking...

Hi Sue, Yes we did in Lyndon Green infants school.

Yep i am hearing you, wish it had been left as it was for kids to explore. My husband said that he heard that the land should never have been developed as the open unmanicured land was left by a titled Lady in her will to the people of sheldon, thats what my husband said he was told when he...

Thats right they were called the baggies, wasn't much there when I was a small kid just a pond behind the territory army barracks in barrows lane , always remember there being wet areas and I think the concrete course that was built for what i now know is Westly Brook came later, I don't...

Hi jmadone, I have just spoken to my sister and it is a brook, not a drain and she said she used to go down there with her friends too! I always thought it was a storm water drain as a kid, I have never heard it called westly brook but havnt lived there for 35 years. Lots of the local kids...

Oh yes we have all done daft things when we were young. I remember going with a gang of kids down the large drain that threads through sheldon country park in the 1960's and under the road to the other side of the coventry road! How lucky there wasn't a flash flood ! My parents would have...

Ok, So what was Sheldon Florence? Was it a shop, what did it sell?

Hi Warren , I am glad you have confirmed I did the right thing . I have just gone into my inbox and can see the message from someone and my message back to him. Thank you.