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  1. The Baron

    Past Holidays In Woolacombe

    Can someone please explaine (IN PLAIN ENGLISH) How I can upload Video clips I do not understand the example below? HOW DO I GET THIS TO BE ABLE TO ENTER & upload? I must say the upload for the photos is just great so quick. Knowing you folk will help I say THANKS NOW. Insert Video Clip Enter...
  2. The Baron

    Past Holidays In Woolacombe

    Hi Phil & all you guys who love the WOOLACOMBE AREA this is the Shell Beach October 2010
  3. The Baron

    bearwood ice skating rink??

    this was the one I missed off:D
  4. The Baron

    bearwood ice skating rink??

    This is how I remember that rink, had many a hairy moment playing Hockey there after the old rink closed, the stage area was something else, when going behind the goal at speed,loved the bar up stairs, as Phil (OLDMOHAWK) has said in the other tread (SPRINGHILL) we had to tip toe over the road...
  5. The Baron

    bearwood ice skating rink??

    You beat me to that! Phil.
  6. The Baron

    Bell and Nicholson Drapers' Warehouse Department Store

    Hi seabird, Did you ever come across a guy called John Robotham? (I think thats how he spelt his name) he was a rep for Bell & Nicholson in the late 1950s. if my memory is correct his Dad rept; for Wendy Wools ,He was originaly from Nottingham but had moved to Sutton Oaks Rd Streetly Sutton...
  7. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS at the Birmingham Hip; They had a suite at the old QUEENS HOTEL,
  8. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    Hi Phil, that got the old grey cell going, but I remember them at the Birmingham Town Hall along with many more name some now long gone,Buddy Holly,Eric Delaney, Louis Armstrong, Frankie Lane, & many of the old skiffle groups including the one & only Mr L D (can you tell me who?) Trad Jazz was...
  9. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    The one I remember most from TOMMY STEEL is ROCK WITH A CAVEMAN flip side BUTTER FINGERS. He started at the 2IIs Coffee Bar in LONDON.
  10. The Baron

    Photos of fall 2010

    This Photo taken today on the CHESTER ROAD<BEGGERS BUSH,SUTTON COLDFIELD. What fantastic display the trees are giving us this Fall.
  11. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    Liz that blonde lady in your group of pics is the fantastic KATHY KIRBY no longer will us sad to say.
  12. The Baron

    The Mount, Kings Road, Great Barr.

    "The MOUNT" is now being refurbished & is looking good . This is the new sign it the 3rd one I can remember since 1962 one for each time this pub has changed its image.
  13. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    RUPERT,Do not forget TOMMY STEEL, CLIFF RICHARD,GERRY MARSDEN, JIM DALE,JOE BROWN,MARTY WILDE,& Many many others to many to mention. THE SHOW "O BOY" put lots of these on the road to fame. Stood for hours to see BILL HALEY at the Odeon in New St & again at the back of the Birmingham Hip;stalls...
  14. The Baron

    Birmingham in 1950s

    like every decade when one looks back one only remembers the good times.I can say the I am glad I was born when I was as to have the carefree teenage & full imployment of the 50s Then the HAPPY TIME of the 60s (married best friend, first & second kids born, played my best loved sport, had the...
  15. The Baron

    Berners Street.

    Dave do you remember this guy (G.Goldingay)he and I were both at Berners St ,doing City & Guilds around the same time as you, If you were inPCD you would have known TOM DILLWORTH <KEITH RICHARDSON< MR MERRY (the one armed fantastic golfer)?
  16. The Baron

    The Mount, Kings Road, Great Barr.

    I remember both these pubs the "Charlie" was close a number of times before it was knock down due to DRUG dealing in the bar. The "Mount" built on that two levels, with the upper one done out like a swiss cable car station, was so different from the lower assembly room & Bar. When I think of...
  17. The Baron

    Brook bond tea

    I have all the Brook Bond Photo cards in the albums collected over the years when I was a kid, the shiffter add was Two Chimps taking a Piano up some stairs, "A MR SHIFFTER DO YOU NOW THE PIANO IS ON MY FOOT" "NO SON YOU HUM IT & I WILL SING IT":)
  18. The Baron

    Sawdust.

    Great tread love it.
  19. The Baron

    Birmingham on Sea

    All the best Weston with your new GRAND PIER hope you have good weather & a good turn out for the opening.
  20. The Baron

    Lost Lidos

    I posted the outside pic of BROOKVALE LIDO some time ago on this tread cannot find it at the momenr? The one inside is just great
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