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"How can we stop the pubs closing doors for the last time?" Simple answer 'Patronise it' No business can succeed without customers, even more so if the council does its best to tax it out of existence.

It really looks like slag to me.

My late brother Gordon lived in Stoney Lane, when he moved in it was Stechford but later they changed the address to Yardley, same house. Anyone in that location? I've lost touch with Betty his widow and wonder what's happened to her.

I have a mistake in my tree, not sure it's from a hint or just my own mess, I have a marriage with a four year old bride. :oops:

My mother worked on the school meals, she was horrified to see that the head cook skimped on the kids food and sneakily took whole cooked hams home for herself.

Got one from Google forms this morning telling me "Congratulations you've won a prize." with a click on link................. scammer.

I was demobbed in 55 so still on the reserve when that all blew up, sweating I'd be recalled. :(

I was in Moascar and El Kirsch but there were a lot of us in various parts of Egypt at the time I was in REME and our base workshop was in TeK but I never got there.

Not in Brum but I had a day at the Morris works in Oxford, they had several disabled workers there the most impressive was a blind man assembling fascia panels fitting the clocks speedometer etc.

That's a steep slope for a car I wonder how many roll aways they get. :)

Here in the Forest of Dean the old timers use 'old butty' but with the local accent it's 'owd burry'

I suppose it's better than "Hey You!"

Two beautiful ladies. :)

You would be there for a while putting pennies in to get enough stamp to post a letter today.

Still too cheap to be profitable though with the costs all around on the increase, back in the 'good old days' a postman out in all weathers earned a fiver a week and rode a bike, they all now have minimum wage paid holidays a pension scheme and a van.

I had one in my shop, the most dangerous time was when cleaning and sharpening the blade, it was heavy and if you dropped it it would chop your toes off.

My late friend Ted was a jeweller in the jewellery quarter, he had an arm/elbow problem caused by using one of those tools a steel ball in his palm that pressed on the nerves when used.

Criticism criticism all the time criticism. :)

I had two emails yesterday telling me I need to update my Ebay account details, neither came from Ebay.

All those beautiful buildings paid for by the boozers of Birmingham. ;)