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Just found this photograph taken at Bert and Marge dance studio on the Coventry Road 50 years ago. Would anybody recognise my dancing partners.

My first car was an Ausin Ruby which I bought for £60 while stationed in the RAF near Cirencester. It was in 1953 and I had just got engaged to a local girl. A couple of days after the engagement the dear old RAF posted me north to Turnhill in Shropshire. Every weekend I would make the journey...

Does this photograph bring back any memories? Lozells Harriers 1952 taken at our training ground at Salford Park More memories

Following the killing of the mouse (see City Electric Co) I moved to my second job in 1952 as a trainee draftsman at Wolseley Sheep Shearing Co, as it was then known, in Witton. My mother never told anyone that I was an electricians mate, but decided that a trainee draftsman sounded very posh...

My first job was in 1951 with a company called City Electrical based in the middle of the Jewellery quarter. I was an electricians mate with a salary of £1.7.6. a week, and all our work was replacing the very old wiring in the many tiny rooms used by the jewellery makers. We used to receive...

What Do You See What do you see nurses, what do you see? What are you thinking when you look at me? A crabbed old woman, not very wise Uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes Who dribbles her food and makes no reply When you say in a loud voice” I do wish you’d try” Who seems not to notice the...

Memories Make believe games shouting, “bang you’re dead” without actually killing someone. Toothpaste tubes that were made out of a lead type material that you could roll up from the bottom, and they stayed rolled up. Taking the accumulator round to the shop in Wheeler Street and exchanging it...

Here are our two Siamese who are the best of friends. If you like to see a slide show or a few videos of our two cats www.mylateryears.moonfruit.com/siamese

This fantastic site has 201 streets named, but I can’t find Lennox Street, so I will go back 70+ years and see what I can remember. Hopefully, some of your members may be able to fill the gaps. Starting from the Farm Street end the first grocery shop was on the right, and shortly after, on the...