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www.connectinghistories.org.uk/birminghamstor This was the site were I also found the Middlemore Emigration Homes referred to. A very interesting site in its own rite but I doubt if I am the first to discover it here.

I watched the video and it reminded me of the battles my brother in law had with a mole he had at his place in France. Out in deepest, rural France they dont give a toss about daft laws ( bit like Brum) and most of the things would have been illegal in this country. One involved a device using...

What is it about comedians being tight when it comes to standing a round of drinks? I have heard it said about lots of them when I have been a club member. Also a lot are real miseries off the stage.

If I lost a good few pounds ( lbs not £s) a few years and with the aid of a couple of nips and tucks I could look that good. Honest!

I liked him in his early TV days but after doing "Children of a Lesser God " he started taking himself far to seriously and became what I believe a real Luvvey. While I can happily watch John Nettles after all these years, Trevor Eve came across far to pompous in the series about a Swedish...

Hello Archivist , welcome to the forum and I hope you stay around. Your expertise will add to vast knowledge bank here and a rich sense of humour runs through the place.Check out Wessex pubs threads while you are at it. Again welcome.

Thank you Zak for the photos and to Alf for the link to that fascinating thread. That O.C. was some researcher. I wonder if he is still out there lurking. This is what I like about the BHF. When you click on the site it might be a so-so visit or you may leave with fantastic stories about...

My education was in the 50s/60s and we saw plenty of caning. I have just remembered that when I left school there was a big push to recruit teachers from my fellow students. Those who went on to become teachers perhaps had less taste for giving out corporal punishment. Today many parents shy...

I have googled the name and it refers back to posts on this forum. Use the search option and it may help you.Some one has done some research on Bestons of Fermwood . They had journalistic links and were quite high society. ...arkrite.

Ray, I will look for your initials next time I am in Tewksbury. I should have a big enough pair of binoculars somewhere. Never gone much on climbing steeples. Certain you were not emulating the hero in Tom Browns Schooldays?

Just as bad was the institutional violence in schools. I was only caned twice. Once for questioning the existance of God, the second for being near a display case when the glass broke. I still deny any action on my part caused it to break.So any idea of it being a just world left me early on...

I am pretty certain my father did not think a lot of me but I was not alone. I think he disliked everyone from Jews to any one not white and English. Scots , Irish ,Poles you name it he hated them.From an early age I saw the wrong in this so it set me on a collision course with him.Canes...

I can remember visiting Madam Tussuad's,London during the 1960' on a trip of some sorts. The reason for the visit was an anniversary of Trafalgar. You could walk through a depiction of a gun deck on the Victory during the battle. Did anyone else visit?

Very Good Mr. Llamafama, very instructive. Now just to round off give them all a taste of the cat.Its the Captains birthday and we are having a whip round. I'll get me coat on the way out.

Thank You Wessex for those kind words. You have made an old drunk very happy.:grin2:

I can bore for Britain when it comes to talking about pubs. My formative drinking years were spent in Shrewsbury. It is known as one of the beer heavens now , just think what it was like then. Most of the pubs have had glorious Victorian/ Edwardian interiors ripped out and mock flavour of the...

Sorry if I sound down beat Wessex but I am talking rural village/ hamlet pubs when it comes to closures. Chain pub come eateries are doing very well in the cities , on the outskirts and arterial roads. We use the them alot. Sadly small pubs are not wheel chair friendly as much as I would like to...

Bernard what really annoys me are people who complain about older men going to Wetherspoons and such like and taking up space. They dont realise people get fed with their own company and I hated eating on my own. Even if you sit on your own and never speak you dont feel alone. Cooking for...

Wessex, The Wheatsheaf on the Bromyard to Worcester road is a large pub ,big car park,large garden with a pretty stream and refurbed kitchens.Idyllic but it breaks the people who try to run it.It is close to Bringsty Common at Whitbourne ,a real beauty spot.Another foody pub ,The Holly Tree has...

Macca,you're dead right about population demographics,but country pubs got round this too.Remember how local workers couldn't afford to stay in their areas due to house price rises? That meant affluent suburb dwellers took their places,and they were less likely to use the pubs,as was your...