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I remember we did have Cheese & Onion crisps in the 1950's Walkers started with them in 1954 Fish fingers were made by Birdseye from 1955, we were lucky to have a fridge in our prefab so I remember them being a special treat.

Finlays & Withers tobacconists were all around Birmingham, I worked to redecorate every one them

Here is a link to a website showing adverts by BIRMINGHAM COMMERCIAL FILMS They also did processing, titling etc under the name of Birco films, some of you will probably remember their premises on Lozells road and Paradise street. There is a link on there showing them loading a van ready to...

Best wishes to Alan for a speedy recovery

Well, that joke would now fall flat because there are actually left handed hammers, these are the type with moulded rubber handles to fit the fingers, I worked with someone in the 1980's who had one of these, also special purpose ones such as this slate hammer which has a nail puller on the...

I also hold my cutlery the right way round, this means I have the knife in the right hand and end up pulling food apart with the fork in my left hand instead of cutting with the knife. My left handed Grandson does exactly the same. My right handed sister holds her cutlery left handed

I'm left handed but do some things the normal way round, decades ago I went with a relative to have a go at golf, because I'm left handed he went to great lengths to borrow some L/H clubs for me. Needless to say I couldn't use them as I discovered I could only hold them right handed, the problem...

Us kids used to fish down the end of Gregory Avenue at the Duckpond in Weoley Castle, back in the 50's there was still a park keeper and his hut, We all had bamboo canes and a bent pin for a hook and we only caught tiddlers such as sticklebacks. Older kids with proper gear caught Roach. Here...

Here is my vintage fly reel bought over 50 years ago, imported from the USA I had to wait six weeks. it still works perfectly as I used to strip it down and grease the big spring etc. These are plentiful on US Ebay but probably not over here I have my dads gear as well as he died 5 years ago...

I had an expensive Hardy fly rod given to me and it was superb, so what did I do? I drove away from the river and left it leaning against the hedge in the car park area. I also drove away from another place and left a pair of waders :eek: Back in the 60's there was a mention in the Angling...

I've not been for a number of years, we used to go to the Elan Valley and fly fish there on the small rivers and streams which were the best and you could walk for miles casting as you went. I bought an automatic fly fishing reel in the 1960's, it was made in the USA and very rarely seen over...

I would have taken my fly rods there along with my usual tackle, i can't recall if I did any good. I've even dry fly fished on local canals where there are no trees behind and caught lots of fish whilst nearby anglers looked on in amazement along with their empty keep nets. Do any of you fly...

I seem to remember a string of lakes but looking on google Earth I can only see one but the map shows six, they must be hidden by trees. My first visit mentioned above in 1967 was when they were first available to BA members. It was still run as a hospital then and probably a lease agreement...

Another great memory is setting of to another new BA water, Bretby Hall lakes near Burton on Trent. I went with a mate from work and we set off at 5AM, he had his younger brother in the car asleep on the back seat, still in his pyjama's! Halfway there he started fiddling with the radio and...

I think the BA were the biggest club in GB at one time and every water that came up for rent or purchase they went for and got. But they overspent and got into severe debt and had to let some fisheries go. It's now a shadow of it's former self. We used to go fly fishing and the BA had just...

Me & my dad were members for years from the 1960's. one of our favourite places was on the Teme at Eardiston. We used to go after work in Summer and flyfish on the weir,

Several mentions here of Banana's ripening, these were called the Banana rooms and the building had about four floors where whole stems of Banana's would be hung up in rows. I mentioned about me working there in the early 60's on another thread. Bananas began arriving by air instead of by ship...

I used know the words of all of Billy Fury's songs and sing all day long at work

It would be good to see clips of the Birmingham girl film as it mentions local surroundings, I expect they are lost forever

I wonder if any of their films were ever made available for amateur use on 9.5mm film. the Pathé Baby amateur film system for home use were available as early as 1922, these were fairly cheap hand cranked projectors, later ones had an electric motor along with a transformer to lower the...