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Hello from Aussie!104 - 105 Couldn't I just jump into the pool! What a very unusual surrounding design of the Lido. It's almost as if the outer perimeter was the original size complete with racing lanes????? Could this be? Anyway thank you. Anne

Hello Everyone and a Happy New Year I have just read all your entries to this thread - in Australia! I am still with all my family out here enjoying 104 - 105 Phew! However I shall be back in the ice and freezing fog and snow???? next week. I 've enjoyed reading your contributions. Thank...

Thank you All for all this info Keepers I never personally experienced a swim but my three older sisters knew it well. I just am so interested in its history. Rowheath I did some of my diving training. Smallheath - what fantastic pictures! Droitwich have been campaigning against closure of its...

What experiences have you? Those were my "brace" days for five years. Anne

Do you remember dancing in those days. NO discos, or the loud music of today please?!!!!!!!!!!! Who remembers Joe Loss, Victor Sylvester, Edmundo Ross etc etc. Did they ever have "gigs" in Birmingham? Ladies only - what beautiful dresses did you wear? who did you meet? Anne

Qe 2 Great pictures Cromwell. This is how I remember it. Had a trip down memory lane a couple of years ago. Not one square centimetre of green left anywhere. Just a concrete jungle and if it wern't for the multitude of arrows and signs you'd get completely lost in the maze. No longer does...

Irene Tranter Thank you from Western Australia! I don't recall an Irene Tranter. The Tranters I am referring to were "getting on" (so it seemed to me when I was in my first decade!) Maybe Irene was a relation??? PS I'm going to South Australia next week! Anne

What about tongue twisters as well? or should this be another thread Little and often fills the purse A little help is worth a deal of pity A little learning is a dangerous thing More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool Knows. Anyone have any good tongue twisters?

Swimming at kent Street Ah yes! but that was thirty 33 years ago? Anyone else know of kent Street baths? Anne

School Picture Site I think this would be a lovely idea. I suppose really it's up to web space allocated. Would it be possible do you think? Anne

How did you and your families celebrate Coronation Day? Who owned a TV then ?! Did you watch it on your TV or someone elses? Were you actually there? What do you remember? Any nice pictures? What momento were you given from school? The latter question - I was given a tiny weeny leather...

Prefabs in Hollywood? Here is a picture of Prefabs in Druids Lane Hollywood. (Replacement image 23/3/16) Where is Hollywood? (apart from the obvious!) Anne Tongue Twister Peggy Babcock's knapsack straps Freshly fried fresh flesh

The Beginning of the End Thank you for answering my query about whether I remembered correctly about the fishing tackle shop. I have since found this picture and it represents the beginnings of the redevelopment and....it looks as if the gunshop/fishing tackle shop will be the next to go. Anne...

It does look familiar Perhaps I'm confusing a Fishing Tackle shop with what was an ammunitions shop?? Anne

Well - they're coming in now! Thanks for these contributions. If you feature in your pictures don't forget to point yourself out! Anne

How I Remember Steelhouse Lane Seeing the picture brings back memories on three accounts 1) My regular walk from Snowhill to Woodcock Street Baths most teatimes to do my training. Was there a Fishing Tackle Shop somewhere down on the left? 2) Dreamily walking into the path of a Fire Ambulance...

Jennyann and Susan What a small world. It is incredible how these sites can link people together. I don't have relatives with Brummie birth rights - all West bromwich - not that I can be sure, but I'll never know! But does anyone know of a the Brummie family of John ( Jack) Harris or Morris...

It's good we have another one! Thank you for this "Mohawk" I'd like to see more contributions to this thread. It's been up a while. You never know, somebody might recognise somebody! Wouldn't that be good? Has anyone got any pictures of school, club, outings groups in Brummie? Anne

Thank you for the Info. Apollo It's nice to know it was clear at times. I know I could stand up in the centre of the canal and it felt like knobbles of coal, and if I remember rightly I did have a sooty taste in my mouth from the odd splash. I didn't put my face right in however, I couldn't...

Snagged for you! By 1659 there was a mill on Hockley Brook where it formed the Smethwick-Handsworth boundary. The mill may at that time have stood on the Handsworth side of the boundary, but a map of 1831-2 shows a mill on the Smethwick side. In 1659 the mill belonged to a Mr. Lane, probably...