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  1. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    0 So then I wanted to be a farmer till I realised you had to kill or have animals killed.
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    Youtube Music

    I thought I was going crackers I am not that cleaver. Are they after my/ the Forum details?
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    Youtube Music

    Scary stuff, it looked like I was promoting a site. Thank you.
  4. I Am Nico

    Our childhood toys

    I loved mine I like the ratchet ticket machine the noise it made . They used to ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up, at school. it was jobs like a bus conductor, a nurse, a train driver, lorry driver, maybe what your dad did, I wanted to be a vet, me who can't stand blood & was afraid...
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    Youtube Music

    Someone has taken what I posted..... (when I was posting as Nico before I had problems which the Forum rectified), and have added to it. I posted "When I was renovating my place" etc to....."in English as you probably know." Last word know is on the fourth line down. The post that carries on...
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    Street furniture

    Was Cattel a famous Brummie? I ask as I worked with a Joyce Cattel. Never heard it before or since. We never saw it written down we thought it was Kettle made to sound posh, like Mrs Bucket.
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    Street furniture

    Always confused Ludgate & Lidgate hills. Probably down to Nan. Eventually realised it was a hill. An 'ill. Lidgutill.
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    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Some were not sadly Lyn. They were sent to work like slaves. I was surprised as it was in WW2 also. The late Jim Highland who was a researcher for period films and books told me. He helped me in my family research. Anyway, one of his relatives was. One of my half sisters in laws was sent to...
  9. I Am Nico

    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    There is a special presence or smell or something about allotments. I can't explain it. They have a stillness especially big ones. and wildlife. We never had one but our neighbours did. They were always there. Sometimes I went along with their children. There was a goose too. On the 'lotments.
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    Garages And Service Stations

    Dad did, he was accident prone. Mum drove. She parked outside a building and he was sitting behind her, he opened the door and disappeared.
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    Garages And Service Stations

    My dad fell in to a pit which housed floodlights. Our ancient garage has a pit
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    I remember the tripe woman she had a stall in the market, just tripe, I used to run past.
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Slipper Bath Attendant. Do Slipper Baths exist?
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    On my phone feed a Historical American subject came up, a lady, looks like 1930s had a a small bookcase strapped to her back she was a mobile Library. Did we have those here.?
  15. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    I forgot the word, thank you., Did it spark?
  16. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Nan had one screwed to the end of her kitchen cabinet, it was small square and had about 3 or 4 blades and you scraped your knife through it. And it screeched. But granddad sharpened the carving knife on a special big stone he kept outside. Or on a long tool , this had brought back that Sunday...
  17. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Paying. He was. He hated our neighbour too. An interfering, bullish woman. He bit dad too when he was going go hit me.
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    We had a lot on tick. Onlyy way we coul have anything but Nan wouldn't do HP unless or was electrical, if it broke she would stop paging till it was repaired.
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    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    The Co Op insurance man diddled me I am glad the dog bit him. We had to in & pay after that . Think we had the man from the Pru too he never came in.
  20. I Am Nico

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    Pub up the d ft tgey smoke outside in blizzards ours blow a trumpet badly and all the local dogs howl. In France a dusyman shook hand as I handed him the bag, as did the grave diggers and they blessed the grave with holy water.
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