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I'd gone to New street station that night to meet my girlfriend off a train. I must have got there about the time the bombs went off but didn't hear anything. When we tried to leave the station the police stopped us and escorted us down the ramp at New street. They made us go quick because they...

True. I didn't mind being called bab. It made me smile for the rest of the day. They don't much use "darling" down here my lurver.

I'm 68 and live near Bristol. Our local garden centre has a butchers run by Brummies. Last time I bought something there, one of the butchers called me Bab! I don't know if he had clocked I was from Birmingham but I can't help thinking that calling old blokes Bab is going to cause some confusion...

I've just come across this thread and very interested to see the discussion of the rubber stamp companies (Yes - sad. I know) Ash Rubber Stamp was bought by the H.B.Sale company just before the first world war. My grandfather, Thomas Harold Day was a grandson of Henry Bailey Sale and he became...

Sometime in the early 70s, when a teenager, my friend and I were stopped outside the Palace and asked if we wanted to go in and be extras in a film they were making. Obviously we said Yes and spent 20 minutes pretending to watch a film while an usherette walked up and down pretending to sell ice...

So is "going up the village" really a general Brummie expression for going to the local shops?

Thanks both. I'll try contacting them.

Hi Janice. Thanks. Yes I did. There was one grave there with the name Day according to findagrave, although not a name I recognised, but I couldn't even find that one.

Hi. Some months ago I visited St Margaret's Great Barr looking for family graves with the surname Day. I believe my great grandfather Thomas Day was buried there in 1907 and, according to church records, there are many more ancestors there too. I didn't find any graves but I didn't have time for...

Growing up in Erdington, we always "went up the village" too. Decades later when I was working in Kent and in a work meeting someone asked me where I came from. When I said Erdington he laughed and said Oh is that the place they call the village? That was the first time I'd ever realised that...

Yes, thanks both. There's a 1913 map (https://maps.nls.uk/view/101597558) that shows just the same buildings so you must be right. It does show an Auction/Mart behind the pub.

That's great Lyn. Thanks. I can't see the cottages in that map so they may well have been built later by him, hence the name.

Also- one of the other Scott Arms forums here refers to there being regular actions in the Scott Arms. Thomas Day was an auctioneer so I'm wondering if these were to do with him.

Thanks Keith and Lyn, I think this might be right. My great grandfather, also called Thomas Day, lived in a house called Meadowside which was described as in Great Barr on the main road between Sutton Coldfield and West Bromwich. There's a road called Meadowside Close just off the Newton rd...

That's interesting. Do you know where the name "Days building" came from or anything more about it? My 3x great grand father Robert Craggs was the Landlord of the Scott Arms. He died in 1860. His daughter Maria married Thomas Day and they're my 2xg.g. parents. I wonder if its just...

I just posted a very old picture of the Scott Arms on the Walsall road thread. I think from beginning of last century. I didn't know it was the Scott Arms until Astoness kindly told me. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/walsall-road.57737/post-857467

And looking at the photos on the Scott Arms thread I think it almost certainly is. Thanks Lyn!

Yenton Football team 1968: Top: Michael Dolman, John Zeff, ?, John Day (me), David Hicken, Adrian Webb, ? bottom: ? , Mr Bibby, Andy Norton, Laurie Chetwood, ? Sorry to the 3 lads I can't remember. Yenton Football team from my older brothers' era : written on the back is - 1954/55 Newton...

That would make sense. My 3 x great grand father was the landlord at the Scott Arms

I found this picture of Walsall rd in amongst some old family photos. I don't know how old it is but there is only a horse and cart on the road. My family lived at Beacon Farm on Barr Beacon until 1906 so it could be from that era. John