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I worked opposite this pub for 22 years, when it was the beehive the guy I worked with Frank Carter, his mom and dad owned it. The reason it eventually was called the Catherine O Donovan, was the lady who owned the pub was called Catherine Donovan, when it became a free house she changed the...

There must have been less stress in those days, notice all of those guys have got a full head of hair

Did you like northern soul at all Lyn

Wow these photos are magnificent, thanks for sharing

We had a wimbush shop at the bottom of our road in Great Barr (perrywood road) when ever I smell baking it takes me back to when I was a kid and popping into the shop for our mom to get bread or cakes. The lady who run the shop was called Tilly and at the end of the day would always give you a...

As Lyn says, for us old school types always and forever "Dudley Road"

Wearing my health and safety officers hat in pic #181 there's definitely a trip hazard problem on the factory floor which needs to be addressed :):) seriously though how lucky are we to have this magnificent place on our door step, congratulations to the person who had the vision to see this and...

I think one of the saddest things about St Margaret's and many institutions like it is most of the elderly patients should not have been in there in the first place. In the early forties and fifties no one really knew about dementia and Alzheimer's and people were just diagnosed as been...

These things really tasted nice for the first 10 minutes or so but towards the end they started to rock hard, and also had the little comic strip inside made of wax paper with a cartoon and a gift you could send for, normally thought it was in America :)

The big question Dave, please tell me you've still got all of those records :)

Hi Izzy You have a terrific memory regarding the shopping center, as I was reading it I just found myself going "oh yeah " "oh yeah" :):) I used to go in after school and have a look around, apart from buying my first proper pair of trainers I also remember buying a very expensive table tennis...

Those crystal sets were a good learning curve for boys and girls interested in radio, at the time, to actually go to a shop and bring home some components to build your own radio, then hear it working would have been wonderful. I still think radio is an amazing invention, to hear voices and...

that radio would have been every young boys dream, I had a radio given to me at a very early age and now have this obsession with old vintage radios, I remember as a kid, my dad started his own business in a small shed in the garden and I used to sit for hours with him listening to the cricket...

And then you joined the circus :):):)

My man had a lovely big ronson lighter on her "smoking table " and her cigarettes in a very posh silver cigarette box

Found this today, hope some of you guys who haven't seen it find it interesting

one of the cranes bags John before we went plastic :):)

Yes those were the days alright, sitting on the bus on the way home reading the record sleeve, then that final unveiling as you would pull the fresh record out of the sleeve before putting it on the turntable. What's the fun in downloading a record and having it sitting on a hard-drive and you...