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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...

Hi Junie Many thanks for taking the trouble to look up details about Ronnie France, but when I said that he went to the dentist one day and never returned, I meant it. He was having a tooth removed and sadly died under the anaesthetic. John

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...

Hi Wales To see your Lozells pictures on line the address is www.photobox.co.uk/albums/56116219 If you click on slide show you will get the best results. If you have any more photographs you would like to be added to the album, just send them to me. It does mean that your photographs will be...

Hi Wales We must stop meeting like this !!! I am in the process of enhancing all the photographs you have sent. When finished I will upload them to my photo website. If you think that there has been any improvement you can download them or invite any other forum members to view them. I will...

Hi Wales I am beginning to build up a picture of so much of my youth that I had forgotten, from your photographs. If you look at the right hand side of the picture of Reeves Polishing Co, almost hidden behind the large van, you can just make out a built up area that was the loading bay. At the...

Hi Di Lovely memories and you reminded me of our VE celebrations. Although Lennox Street was not a long street, we still managed to have four large bonfires in the middle of the road.

Hi Wales The pics are fantastic. I looked at the Globe and at the very spot that I used to stand and ask people "can you take me in please mister" jojesparl@yahoo.co.uk

Hi Lloyd I was very proud of my reply when I was told, I held my head up and said “I already know that, I’m going to bed”. But of course I didn’t know that and I remember that I cried all night, and next day I went to visit my favourite aunt who lived in Nelson Road Aston. The adoption was never...

Any pics of the area would be great. The website is

I have just blown up the maps and have been travelling the roads. How could I forget walking to Handsworth Park on a Sunday morning and taking out one of the lightweight skiffs to race round the lake. Going to the Porchester Arms with mom and dad, and getting up to no good down the narrow...

Thank you so much for those pics. I has been 60 years since I used to go to the Brook Tavern outdoor to fetch a jug of beer for my gran and I never thought I would ever see a picture of it to jog my memory. I must confess to a little moistening of the eye, but don’t tell my Jean, I like to keep...

After school the members of my gang would meet up at our castle and make our plans for the evening, I say my gang because I was voted the leader. The castle would be moms empty chicken shed, thinking back, that must be the reason they made me leader. The main object of our plans was the only...

We have plenty of house left, but not for us. We have to cook round them, clean round them, look through them to see TV, drop everything when they decide to open the drawer and place their playthings at our feet, say sorry to them when we leave them to go shopping, and of course, invite them to...

I was cold and tired but it was time to get up and ready for school. I stood on the chair and climbed out of the Anderson shelter we shared with four other families. It had been a very noisy night, there had been a number of bombs aimed at the Joseph Lucas factory in Hockley, but I think some...

We just have the two cats, we were going to breed but decided against it. We did not want to spoil the relationship between the cats who cry for each other if they are parted for even a short while, and of course my Jennie who also gets upset if they are not around. Misty is 16 months old and...

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

Hi Phil. many,many thanks for the picture and that is the ice cream shop on the corner. It is the first picture I have seen of Lennox Street and it brought back many memories.

I do remember Gough Terrace but not McCarthy Buildings. I would like to get hold of a sreet map for about 1940, it would help jog my memory. Lennox Street no longer exists as I knew it. In 1965 the council decided that we lived in slums, bulldozed the lot and moved everyone to Chemsley Wood on...

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...