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Really interesting thread. My memories are slightly later, being a 70's child. I lived until I was 9 in a two bedroomed terraced house just off Smethwick High Street. We had a tiny front garden with a brick wall that was useful for hiding behind when playing out and our entry leading to the...

Oh yes, fond memories of the death track in the snowy winter of 1978/9, we spent hours up the Woods sledging on there, it was pure ice and very, very fast. Definitely a few bumps and bruises amongst our little gang. Good times though, the boys showing off to us girls. Not winter time, but just...

1966 vintage me, born at St Chads. Still waiting for England to win the World Cup again and the mighty Baggies to win the FA Cup.

I'm frankly annoyed about some of the comments about tower blocks on here, I actually live in one and I love it. They have changed a lot since the 1970s, most of the blocks that remain have had a lot of money spent on them, where I live, we had completely new lifts installed, two lifts in our...

That actually reminds me of something my husband and I did the other Saturday. We were walking our dog round Victoria Park in Smethwick, My husband's playground as a child and teenager and I spent time hanging round there when I went out with a lad whose house backed onto the park. anyway the...

I had loads and loads of shoes from the shoe stall in Cape Hill market, especially high heels. They were really reasonably priced and you could always find something unusual or very fashionable. When I started my 5th year at school, we changed the colour of our uniforms to navy blue skirts and...

Seeing those boots reminds me I had a pair of boots almost exactly the same around 1994, with laces and even the heel was similar, I'm pretty sure the ladies of 1914 wouldn't have worn their boots with black leggings though

Oh love them! I often think I was born in the wrong decade as I loved the pencil skirts, stockings, and very high heeled stilettos. I found some like that at the back of my mom's wardrobe when I was 13 and a mod and used to wear them most evenings, or if I knew I was going to do a lot of walking...

Yes, we had a special dance to it as well, sort of going backwards and forwards standing facing your mate, I used to be big headed and spin round while doing the dance and my mate Tina used to moan at me and call me a big head! Happy, happy days

Same here Lynn and thank you for the nice comments. If I went into Faces which was my favourite club and it was played, it always ended up being a good night, don't know why, it just made me feel happy. I agree it was very much a Brummie club song, there was also another song very like it...

There's a few of these "front to front" terraces in Smethwick, I have a family connection with one, Alexander Terrace at the High Street end of Dibble Road, my great grandparents lived there from around 1910 until they had to go into Summerfield Hospital around 1967/8. They are still there...

I enjoy medical and crime dramas mostly, not keen on soaps apart from Doctors on BBC1, of course filmed in Birmingham. Some of my favourites are:- Criminal Minds Greys Anatomy Private Practice (spin off of Greys Anatomy) Life on Mars Ashes to Ashes Frasier The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your...

I haven't heard that for about 40 years. We used to say it at school if more than a bit of lace was showing under our uniform skirts, we mostly wore pencil skirts and the fashion was for the lace trim from your underskirt to show at the top of the split. Other ones frequently used by mom and...

I used to mostly buy my records from HMV in Town, as the 82 stopped almost outside there, I would either jump off and go straight in or go in before catching the bus home. Sometimes brought my reggae records from Don Christie by the Bull Ring bus station, and Reddingtons Rare Records. I lived...

My memories are from the late 70's until now really. I never used to go to Town shopping as a child, mom disliked big crowds and we tended to shop in Bearwood and West Brom, where it was slightly quieter. I started to go into Town in 1979 when I was 13. I would walk down to Bearwood Road and...

No Viv, the bears don't spit rainwater! Be fun if they did though. I've checked the time on both of those clocks and the one that used to be on Roberts & Brains funeral directors on Three Shires Oak Road many, many times walking to and from Bearwood Road to my home by Warley Woods.

My favourites as a child were my nans lamb stews with gravy so thick you could stand a spoon in it, however hard I try, I just can't get my stew gravy like that. Mom's home cooked chips in dripping,she used to leave the dripping in the chip pan for ages and they were amazing, my nans Sunday...

I live in Smethwick where the swimming centre is being built, in fact from my living room window I can see it, as I'm on the 10th floor of a tower block. Sandwell council decided that, despite having plenty of brownfield sites locally with so many factories having been demolished, to put the...

First post so please be gentle. Goodness, where to start? I was a child of the 70's, teenager in the 80's. I used to wear a lot of dresses as a small girl, which I hated being a tomboy from a early age, mom eventually gave up and I mostly wore jeans and t shirts, though I did have a couple of...