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Sorry if I messed up reply because of clicking to many time on reply. My late Mum told me about one incident when she was in the Anderson shelter down the bottom of our garden with my brother and sister. She actually could hear the planes or plane and the bombs coming down. She actually...

I’m sure I used the phrase myself when my children were young way way back. I’m still 25 in the head, but 78 arrives shortly after LOL

I think I know what I’ve done regarding the donation.I donated before i was linked to bank. Then I linked to bank had second thoughts because I’m in a joint with husband, but have my own log in and bank account number. Thought as I’m away not sure if my hub wants his card link.so I withdraw the...

I’m having a nightmare today around PayPal. Set up an account to donate, not sure what I’m doing wrong but thought it would go out of my bank account straight away via PayPal. It’s not showing up in my pending or any activity in paypal. However, thought the donation was accepted. Spoke to by...

A corner of Cranbourne Road adjacent to Tansley Road had what was called pig bins. It was more than the household I’m sure that filled them, anyone know what pig bins actually were ? When if ever the Birmingham bin strike finishes we are going to lots of bins one being for left over food etc...

Kingsthorne JMI previously known as Cranbourne JMI school still has an excellent reputation. I think way back then, and I was born in 1947 at home Cranbourne Road there was a pride about looking after your house. You may be dirt poor, and I’m sure many were, but certainly at school no one...

I had an extremely bad fall tripped while hurrying to catch 28 bus corner of Perry Common Road, and College Road when I literally face planked into the gravel pavement. Bus passengers, plus 3 cars stopped. Someone called an ambulance. People helped stem my very bad nose bleed. For a week I...

We know get flooding in Perry Common Road from the stream running from what’s was called Perry Common recreation ground, now has a new posh name, which flows under Perry Common road into Witton lakes. The strange thing is that is where the pelican crossing lights have been installed. When it...

Has anyone any idea of where Western Road patients were buried if they died when they lived long term and had no relatives to bury them . Did two 3 months placements when I was a pupil nurse 1967. 1968. The truth of once you became a patient there you did not get out in most cases was very true...

He definitely went to Cranbourne Road infant and junior school. I sat by him two solid years straight year 3 and 4 before we all went to senior school.. You’re correct about Steve Winwood going to Great Barr Comp, and you had to live the correct side of Kingstanding Road to go, and Atlantic...

I wear 2 aids but can reasonably hear although 1 ear is certainly losing more hearing possibly because ongoing swimmers ear. One of the ways if filling in say the attendance allowance is you need to have help when communicating with people example your GP, hospital, does your hearing make you...

I left DRH 1969 the one tutor I know was going to get married was Miss Wood, very put together both physically and professionally, but I was under the impression she was going to marry someone who was blind. Are you still working Bhap.?

What year was that Bhap?

Reading through the thread i noticed your sister was Christina . I sat behind her I guess in our last year before going to senior school. If I remember she sat next to Richard Reynolds, sitting next to me was Stevie Winwood long before the fame part. She was good pals with Dorothy Thompson who i...

Have you looked at Attendance Allowance, it’s how the loss in your eye has affected your daily life, and if you need help with daily living. If you have another health condition that also affects you it may well be worth claiming. I lost a close friend some years back, and I help her fill the...

My daughter came to us via the care system. We were long term foster parents, and although we were once very far along the adoption route for various reasons it did not happen. My daughter always had contact with her birth mother who unfortunately died in her 40’s. The one thing that struck me...

Definitely Perry Common did not become Small Heath. Living in Perry Common the daftness of the boundaries is at the least complex, and made even more so when the area was regenerated. Take for example we lived for a lot of years opposite the recreational ground on Witton Lodge Road a few yareds...

The brook your talking about runs underneath Witon Lodge Road, and although the area is regenerated . The houses mainly Dovedale Road, and Maxted Road the brook runs yards from the back of their gardens. Although foliage now covers the banks, and it’s very hard to see the brook. From under...

Apparently someone told me if your coming from the direction of College Road, and carry on into Perry Barr pass the Greyhound stadium you can now turn right there, and go into Perry Barr one stop. Why on earth they took down the flyover I have no idea, not sure what it achieved. Everyone I...

Years ago I think it was David who sent me a message via friends united. Although I never really knew him. How strange my late sister was 12 years older than me also.