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There’s a thread on here concerning doctors where I’ve asked about Dr Hird (as I knew him), to keep everything tidy it’s best to share your memories here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/doctors.45/page-10 lest we go too far off topic. By the way, welcome to forum!

Thank you Gary, my family lived at Pool Farm and then just across the way from Turner’s at Primrose Hill until I was born, then we moved to Kings Heath. My memories of Turner’s are really quite vague as I was quite young and didn’t visit that often, though I remember choosing boxes of Airfix toy...

Thank you for the reply, Gary, the prop rings a bell but I’m not sure as I was about the age you see in my picture when I used to go there! As I recall there were model aircraft of various types and sizes suspended from the ceiling and I think the counter ran along the back and possibly the left...

Where from?

Looking at Flightradar24 I can see aircraft are being diverted from the airport.

AT A LOOSE END. In the days of sail, when matelots were standing idle they were sometimes tasked with tidying the frayed ends of the many ropes onboard, presumably by whipping or splicing etc. Therefore, someone with nothing to do would find themselves “At a loose end.”

I do, after it closed the building became something like “Chalk and Linen” and I think it sold decorating materials. It’s now a cafe and it seems to be doing well.

I lived just down the road from Dingle Mead as a kid and I got to know a lad called Worrall (may have been his last name) who lived in the flats on the right hand side as you walk down from Brandwood Park Road in the early 80s. If I remember correctly he moved to Jamaica to live with his family...

Wishing everyone a merry and peaceful Christmas, with fond memories of those we would have near us again.

Thank you kindly Mike, I can only assume that this was the incident as my memory of it is a little cloudy. I’m certain it took place at the building I mentioned which was indeed about 150 yards from the Ash Meadow. John.

I have a memory of a policewoman being killed in the 1980s or 90s on Brandwood Park Road in Kings Heath. If I remember correctly it was at a three story block of flats that sat between that road and Bryndale Avenue and I believe the poor woman was fatally stabbed. The flats were later demolished...

You can add me to that list. No offence to those who enjoy it, but the glorification of people who create nothing positive but make other’s lives a misery by intimidation and violence turns my stomach. They may be wearing floppy caps and three piece suits but they’re no different from the human...

As mentioned in another thread, I once saw Bob Price and Cyril Fletcher as they walked past me after filming an episode of Gardening Today at the Kings Heath Park garden, probably around 1980.

Sorry I’m late, Happy Birthday, Lyn. John.

I do, they had another shop on Vicarage Road in Kings Heath that I sometimes went to in the 70s and 80s.

Those mushrooms all look like Fly Agaric at various stages of development, to me. Most unlikely to be served in a restaurant unless a trip to Wonderland is planned…

I certainly do, exactly in the context you describe. It’s a phrase I still use.

You may be right, Mike, and thank you once again. To clarify further, it was in a row of single storey shops close to the Greenwood Tree pub.

Thanks, Mike. The shop at Primrose Hill was there in the 1960s and existed until the early 1980s at least, I think, and also doubled as a newsagent. Run by Dennis Turner and another chap called Paul.

Long ago my Dad and older brothers (and occasionally myself, though I was very young) were regular customers of a model shop at Primrose Hill called Turner’s Modeldrome. Looking online through early 1970s copies of AeroModeller magazine the address is given as 24 Teviot Grove, Kings Norton...