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I left 48 years ago on November 8th, which I think was about a week before the Birmingham bombings. There's not too many Brummies here on this side of Canada. A few years ago we gave some goldfish away to the parents of one of our daughter's friends. When we met, not only was her mother a...

I also went to Mothers and the Carlton Ballroom, as it was known before and saw, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, and many more play above the furniture store, down the alley. I think it was the Cavendish furniture store , next to the funeral home that took up the entire area that...

I was working on one of my training vehicles and scraged my arm pulling it out from deep behind the engine, just last week! They don't heal like they used to. I started out in Castle Brom, moved to Erdington, but my family was originally from Aston/Nechells/Duddeston. I worked at Pressed...

Interesting stuff! When I was an engineering apprentice at Pressed Steel Fishers on Kingsbury Road, we had our own barge which was moored under the bridge on Kingsbury Road, adjacent to our apprentice building, (which I believe was on the original site of the Ashold Farm). Our building was...

I left Brum at 21 in November 1974, headed to Canada near Vancouver. I married into a Brummie family that I'd never known, that had lived 1/2 mile away. My accent doesn't quite fit here or back in Brum anymore, has became a "mongrel" accent. That said, I can turn on my natural accent at will...

Strange, I thought that I'd already responded, but may not have hit the post button. You are bang on with Joyce being Mr's Homer's first name. I knew it began with a "J" but couldn't rattle my brain well enough last night! Her husband Len (Leonard Kenneth) was originally from Hazewood Place...

Bang on correct, thanks! In the back of my mind I did know her name and last night, I recalled it starting with "J", but couldn't be sure. Funnily enough, I remember their budgie's name was Billy!!! I have my family tree on Ancestry.ca going back to the 1600s and did some research a while...

Here's an old print of New Street Station, that hangs on the wall next to my desk in the corner of our living room, along with the inset information. Martin

I stood on that very platform at the old New Street Station, waiting for the trains to come into view to take us on vacation when I was a little lad in the '50s-'60s, so I am pretty darn sure that it is authentic. Martin

Interesting stuff. I noticed that one of the birth records listed a Leonard Homer. The Homer family that I knew had a son, John and they lived at 38 Millington Road in Castle Bromwich. Whether this has any connection to the Homer family in question, my Godparents just happened to be "Uncle"...

I know this response is to an old post, but the car in front of the Lancia is a Dino 246 (aka Ferrari, but they were named after his son and not badged as Ferrari). I worked on a couple of them, with V6 engines and Campagnolo wheels. Martin

Thank you mikejee. I usually have no issues, but think that when I uploaded a photo to edit my original reply, I accidentally saved it as a reply!

Richard, it's almost uncanny how conversations can lead to common memories and experiences, that often identify or discuss places, buildings or people whom we haven't been able to locate for years. BTW, in my reply above, I did update it with my old logarithms books and a few others that I...

It is funny that you should mention logs etc Richard. I still have the little logarithms hand books that I used in school and engineering. I moved them a week or so ago and of course cannot find them at this minute. However, I did lay hands on my copy of "The Calculus - Arithmetic of the Age"...

Yes, Black and Decker was across the street from Joseph Lucas at the bottom of Longacre, just around the corner from Cuckoo Road. B & D was on the left and Lucas on the right side. Both had service counters. Martin

I remember standing at the bus stop waiting for the #65 directly across from the entrance on Steelhouse Lane, when I was just a little lad. I learned that it was where bad peple went if they got caught. Just the sight was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow! From the link, it...

I was absolutely amazed to hear Headmaster F C Markwell utter such negative words during the assembly on my final day at the school. I left at 16 headed into an engineering apprenticeship. I never did venture back. I almost visited during a couple of return trips to England, but then the one...

Would Paul Stockwell, Neil Buffrey or Mickey Finn have been at Stockland Green in or around your year Barry? My wife Sue (68) went to Stockland Green later, not sure if her older brother David Sanders (80 last week) or older sister Carol (78) went there or not. The Potter family from Crowder...

Phil was Colin Mill's cousin and lived at the end of the cul de sac on the right with his Mom, Dad and little sister. I remember the day he was sitting on her little bike, rolled back, fell off and broke his arm. We had a gas street light on the sidewalk (oops pavement) strip between our house...

Hi Barry. Yes I remember the MG TC. More family mames also keep popping into my head! The Sheldons lived over on your side, Michael and I think an older brother. Their Mom was from Belgium. I belive that the Radfords lived next to the Sheldons. Peter was one I recall. I went to Court Farm...