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Thank you for that info as I had to instant message someone and I couldn't find instant message and I hoped I had done the correct thing by sending a "conversation"

Oh crikey I forgot about the off license next door to fred evans the newsagent! Yes both gone now and a Drs surgery. We used to be patients of Dr Jeavons and his wife for as long as I remember , even when I grew up and had my children.They were located along church rd just past St Giles church...

Thats right it was, our family used that shop quite often. I don't live around there any more but have googled mapped it and can see the building is still there.

Yes there was a sweet shop /newsagent at the bottom of common lane and the owner for many years was Fred, I bought sweets and ice-cream there when I was a kid, years on I would take my kids there on the way home from my mums in common Lane . There was also a small grocers next door cant remember...

Hi Lyn I started at Telephone House in 1967 age 17 I was there till around 1971/72 when I transferred to Sheldon exchange. I remember the old press A or B button phone boxes too. Wendy

Yes , we also had one it belonged to my grandfather who lived with us, I remember my dad using it as we got older, he would put new soles on our shoes and then melt a waxy stick thing that he then applied around the edges to colour the new leather the same colour as the shoes. He also put small...

Oh what happy days we too had playing in the bluebell woods at chelmsley . How right you are Paul, times have changed no parents now would let kids go off so far on their own for hours on end, how lucky we were in those days to have such a carefree childhood. Wendy

Oh Yes, mum always got us measured for Clarks as we got older and i did the same for my kids. My daughter had some red t bar sandals.

Yes I do Nico, I also loved the painting by number sets, I think you can still buy them.

Yes I it was just after they had arrived in the morning, if only it had been later....they would have been home with their families.

Hi , I think Lyndon Green was opened around 1952 as my sister went to Stanville road and then transferred to Lyndon Green when it opened, she was born in 1946 I was born in 1950 and started there in 1955.

Ha ha they did didnt they but my kids and my grandkids all loved them.

Hi,That pic looks very like the one that was in our garden in common lane sheldon, it was also joined the the neighbours, it had a very, very thick concrete pebbled flat roof . When I was a child in the 60's it had no door just open access. My Dad also used it for storage, it was still there...

I went to college there too, I was sent for one year by the GPO, I was 17 when I started there when I began as a telephonist at telephone house, they made you go to college till you were 18.

Oh dens were a favourite for kids , even my kids had one over a sheoak reserve where we live now. All the local kids used it , it was a huge hole dug in the ground covered by corrugated tin. Must have been hot in the summer!

Oh Yes we had those too.

Ha Ha I loved climbing trees too and roller skated for hours and hours, bit of a tom boy. .

Loved those books , my kids also loved them when they were yo I loved my hoola hoop , you still see them in the shops now.

Yes , remember the old can telephone , we were happy with home made toys when we were kids, weren't we, I loved stilts, made with two tall sticks with a wedge hammered on side of each, kept us quiet for hours.

Oh Yes I remember these , I loved them.