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yes I too had to build bricks Jean don't know if I could do that now.

When I was about 8 or 9 I had to attend Anstey College for excercises on my feet I had to write my name by holding chalk between my toes and do all sorts of movements with my feet in the hopes that my feet would straighten and grow. I can still hear my name being called out that it was the...

Oh how lucky you were to see Frank Sinatra :) I have over 200 records and tapes of his ...................... A man to admire with a voice to melt you :love:

Lynda I'm the same...................... it's not until the programe is over that I realise it was a blooming repeat !!! Still I enjoy it anyway

Front caravan................... Was THIS where my other half was born !!!!!! :D

Here comes Muffin Muffin the Mule. (I loved Muffin :biggrin: Educating Archie had a signature tune I think.

My memory is of cocoa and sugar on bread................ just a tummy filler I think during the war years. Hated sugar ever since. Rabbit stew was another of my Nan's offerings but I just could not ever eat it ....................... "you are looking for the little white tail bobing over the...

Phil I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. Your friends are here for you whenever you need them.

Postie................;) Patrica .............. My Grandad GEORGE CLEGG (Ada's brother) was born in 1890 in Aston and when he married he moved to Woodwells Road in Ward End. He died in 1956. He had 2 children Rachael (my mother) and Alan. His father, also GEORGE CLEGG, came from...

Hi Patrica, So if I have got things right............. your Grandmother ADA was my Grandfather GEORGE CLEGG's sister................ that could mean we are related ?? :) I am not too good at this family history but I think I may have the right ADA nee CLEGG here ? :rolleyes:

thank you Lynne and Tommy. Glad I didn't dream that up

I recall being told that Johnny Prescott was raised in an orphanage............... can anyone comfirm this and if so what orphanage was it?

charliewag I can vouch for what you say as even in the daylight they were outside the house we lived in and many a ten bob note was handed over to the "lady" concerned............... alongside the Nunnery gardens too :shocked: I ended up opening the window and telling them to move away...

Ahhhhh............... thank you Eric for the map.................... it shows the road and it wasn't Kensington Road it was????????????????? GREENLAND ROAD :biggrin: Now I can have some peace and maybe sleep tonight :D Thank you all for your input and your memories.

Love the picture................. but please can anyone tell me the name of the road I was living in ? The big old house overlooked the large nunnary gardens, it wasn't Selly Park Road I do know that pleeeze put me out of my misery please :cry:

I recall watching the nuns in tending the gardens which were quite large and thinking how content they seemed to be with their lives. We lived in that house in Selly Park for about 5 months before moving into a room in my Mothers house in Clifton Road Sutton Coldfield and then into a house...

When my first husband and I were first married, in 1958, we moved into a large bedsit in a very large house that looked over the garden of a nunnery in Selly Park. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the road :rolleyes: I think it ran at the back of the Pershore Road. Ze little...

Barrie, I am so very, very sorry to hear your sad news. Be strong and know we are all here for you when ever you need us. God bless both you and yours.

What about kalin poultice and belladone plasters :cry: real tear jerkers they were :( I remember my Mother putting a poltice on my ear when I had a mastiod boy did it burn :cry:

Saw Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs there and was so scared I had to be taken out sreaming. :cry: My Grandparents lived over the bidge in Woodwells Road.