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I had an extremely bad fall tripped while hurrying to catch 28 bus corner of Perry Common Road, and College Road when I literally face planked into the gravel pavement. Bus passengers, plus 3 cars stopped. Someone called an ambulance. People helped stem my very bad nose bleed. For a week I...

Ages ago I was sent part of my Family Tree. My second cousin had been researching, and one of cousins posted a photo copy of it. I must admit did not study it hard, but today on looking at it in more detail. My great grandmother born roughly 1847, but married in 1882 at the age of 31 which...

What winter snow 1967/1968 or 1968/1969 stopped the buses running? I have been racking my brain to see what winter the snow was so bad that when I came off night duty my bus managed to get to Perry Barr, and could not go any further, and I had to walk home from there to Kingstanding. Looking...

The lamppost outside of my childhood home in Cranbourne Road holds some fond memories, and also of my Mum finally getting mad, and telling the kids to go down their end of the street, and play. Often the lamppost was used for wickets in a game of cricket, and accounted for our window being...

My mother had a irrational fear of thunderstorms. So when it thundered she went into the cloakroom under the stairs , smoked a zillion cigarettes. Dad had to open the backdoor to allow a thunderbolt it we had one to pass down the chimney, and out through the back door. This was when we had a...

If you look at the time I’m posting you can see I have not only turned into a night owl who often meets the morning lark. However, last week Dave put the bins out a day early thinking it was Wednesday for Thursday’s collection. Strange how lockdown merge into one big Groundhog Day

My father was born 1906 lived in a terraced house in Aberdeen Street Winson Green. His former house is now demolished and is now I believe a church carpark His father died on 1921 and I have the receipt from his funeral .He was one of 5 children .He was the only survivor of his siblings . One...