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Hi M Mmm pigs trotters sound disgusting but I loved them when I was kid. I cant remember ovaltine tablets but I remember the small rolls of horlicks tablets...loved them. Wendy

Hi Astoness, Don't get me started on missing foods I love ! I so miss gammon with pineapple, you don't get gammon in Australia, oh and tinned roe, not a tin in sight here, I am sad to say. I have even brought a tin or too back when I have been back for a holiday . I can make mushy peas of a sort...

Thank you Rod for this recipe i will try this , I have made some faggots from a recipe my sister once sent me but it wasn't quite the same as the ones I remember but still tasty. Hope I can get pigs liver here in Australia, you don't see them often the aussies don't seem to like offal.

Hi Mrs T, Oh what I would give for a feed of "brains" faggots sadly I cant get them in Australia. My sister sent me a recipe long ago and I did make some but were not quite the same.

Ha Ha no I can't remember the map of British isles. I remember in the infant school in the winter, if your parents paid you had hot chocolate brought round in a jug and it was served in mottled blue or orange plastic cups . I also remember doing square dancing in the hall in infants , also...

Hi Vivienne, Yes they were quite common , if you needed to use the phone you picked up your phone and if the other party sharing your line were on a call you had to replace your receiver and try your call later, not very private really.

Hi Elmdon boy I was at Lyndon Green from from 1955 to round 1961/2? You may have been in the year ahead of me . Cant remember many teachers names haha. Miss Jones in infants rings a bell.

Hi Smudger, I agree with you, Grimms fairy tales are dark, witches, mean stepmothers , giants etc!

Hi Elmdon boy, I walked past the shop on the way to school every day, I went to lyndon green primary school. Sometimes I would go in to buy sweets, blackjacks, sherbet fountains fruit salads etc. I would have been going in there while your family owned it. Happy days.

Hi Lyn, I lived at 81 common lane sheldon till I got married , my mum lived there most of her adult life till 2004 . It was then sold and extensively renovated. When I google map it I can see the air raid shelter at the bottom of the garden it shares a wall with the air raid shelter next...

We had a small air raid shelter flat roofed like this one at the bottom of our garden ,smaller of course, that was over 60 years ago. I have google mapped the old house and garden and it looks like ours and the adjoining air raid shelters are still there, probably as it would take some getting...

Roger Cox was the goalie for the team my hubby played for (stirrup cup) and Barry Cox was in my year at school! Hubby remembers Roger singing too.

Yes it was "Freds" I used to go there with my sisters for ice lols, jubilee's and sweets in the 1960's then I took my kids there when they were small, Fred had all the large lolly jars, he would weigh out for you, remember the kali?

Hi Robert I lived in one of the flat roof houses in Common Lane when I was a kid till I got married. The street was only narrow and had a wide stretch of dirt on left side going up from church rd to barrows lane there lots of trees and bushes where us kids all played. It was later widened and we...

I lived in common lane growing up and I visited the sheldon library every saturday, spent hours there pawing over which books to read this week...loved it! I moved to Horrell rd when I married and my children went to story time there. I loved the bookshelves full of books as far as the eye could...

Oh yes I remember Woodroffs, it was on the corner it had hardware and household goods in one side and I think you could go through an internal door through to the sweet shop. If I remember correctly around November they stocked fireworks. I think next door there was a butcher and next to that...

Hi Astoness, I worked at Telephone house from around 1967 to 1971 when the new exchange opened in sheldon, I much preferred the old cord and plug boards. I knew a Lyn Johnston who worked at Telephone house lived in Erdington then ???

Hi Mbenne, I lived in Common lane as a child in the 50's and then in Horrell rd after getting married . I used to walk up Sheaf lane with my mum, my gran and my two young children to shop at the wheat sheaf. I think that shop eventually became a small hairdressers, my mother in law went there...

Hi Neville, The photo of the old sheldon cinema is taken along the coventry rd. The telephone exchange was at the back of the cinema along lyndon rd ,it was called the sheldon telephone exchange , very modern in those days, all switches after I had worked at telephone house which was all cord...