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my late uncle was captured at dunkirk age 18 only been the army about 6 mths he was in the regard action , allowing the troops to get of the beaches , when it was there turn to get on the beach , the ships had gone, they just waited to be taken prisoner he spent the war in a pow camp...

we lived near the BSA factory armoury road, my family used the crypt , the church at the corner of walford road , one night a bomb fell opposite and demolished a row of houses plus set the gas main alight my mother said it was like daylight , you could see the BSA the...

hello susan , thanks for message , it was my husband who lived in that area his family had a shop in bishop street when he was older he used the eagle and ball i did not know it was still there, we left brum 28 yrs ago live in torquay devon he had a auntie who lived in sheldon...

yes this is the one mosely st

eagle and ball corner of jamica row and pershore st the gaffer in the late sixties was larry bridges ex copper digbeth polce station we had some great lockins in the sixties happy days

the eagle and ball was corner of jamacia row and pershore st st i used to go there in the late sixties , the gaffer then was larry bridges ex copper we had some great lockins o happy days of long ago

yo bloody posh if yo went to the burlington lol

the gaffer in 1971 was the late ken turner my wife and i used to go there on a sat night he had a dance band it was a good night

i am on my wifes site pat nash my name is howard the first asian curry house visted was in gooch st . opposite the triangle picture house it was called the delie i had chicken curry it was served in a white dish with a chicken drum stick boiled rice seperate this was...

there was no pharmacy in bristol st

120 shops my husband worked for the egg company who supplied wrensons there biggest customer 6 lorries per day left there depot to supply the shops

my first experience was going to the chinese was in bristol st about 1960 belive it was one of the first in brum

the eagle is where i first knew my husband my sister worked there as a barmaid this was in the sixties , the manager was the late ray scott and his wife betty ray passed away in 2002 betty passed away 6 mths ago

my husband came from alcester , and he worked for a egg packing company called smith and baker , there biggest customer was wrensons he said they serviced all the shops with eggs i belive wrensons trade brand was sunspot

that was the correct name for 2 shilling coin florin was the correct name

i kept a flower shop in islington row when decimal came out the goverment supplied us with a large plastic board with the coversion rate on the board , it took a long time to get used to we were swindled, every thing was rounded up up to the new decimal money , even now i am in...

the strange thing was no 2 courts were a like all over brum central there was hundreds of them