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Hi Margaret, I remember you being friends with Marilyn Brown who I was always chasing and finally married her!! We were married 51 years, 3 kids, lost her in 2012. Hope you keep well, Basher Reynolds

I stand corrected Richard!!

757 not a narrow body aircraft, flew on it many times from Toronto to Heathrow!

Iplayed forBrookhill youth committee team that won the League and Youth committee cup back in 1959, final played at Cadburys and we beat Erdington Abbey 9/1, Wilcox took us to Pattisons restaurant after for a meal, home games always played at Glebe Farm. Bunny Larkin held the club record for...

I recall my nan telling me when I was a nipper and crying about something, " keep crying and you,ll piddle the less". Anyone else heard that saying?

As a fifteen year old my first job on leaving school was on Lyndhurst estate working as an apprentice plumber for the City of B,ham Direct Labour Dept. Wimpey built the high rise flats and we did the maisonettes and terraced houses. I,d never been over that side of town before except for Villa...

ah the fifties, remember the radio? my favourite was the evening programmes, as a ten year old listening to the Goon show, Take it from Here, Journey into Space, before that Dick Barton, all while lying in front of the coal fire and yes, using toasting fork for toast. As lots of folk have said...

Thanks for that, it,s strange but true. I took this bus to town with my mom the day I got married, always remembered the number. Sat upstairs and had a smoke, nervous as hell, Barester.

Would MOF18 have had a 30 in front of the 18 number on the bus, would be great if it did, will explain if it did.Barester

Hi Bob, it was Billy and Sarah Vaughan on Passing Strangers , if i,m not mistaken, Barester.

Hi Stitcher, seems to me they were all bad tempered, great fun with the other assistants tho, pay day, over to record store over the road from the dairy, buy latest rock record.Fridays and Saturdays hard work tho, assistant delivered all the milk while roundsman collected money! If I remember...

I also worked as a Co-Op assistant milkman , I was at Hall Green for a year from 1960 to April of 61. I worked with Dennis Sweetman on the round that took in most of Shirley area, he was a good guy but got snotty if I was a few minutes late for loading up. we had one of the bigger milk floats...

About adverse weather, I recall being on the 13a bus heading back to Yardley Wood after work, 1958, first year at work, the fog was so thick that the bus only got as far as Camp Hill and had to stop, visibility was pretty well zero. Ended up having to walk home, must be 5 or 6 miles!! Anyone...

Hi, I too used to trainspot , my favourite place was the bridge in Scribers Lane, 3 or 4 of us always there back in the mid fifties. Loved to see the Cornishman pass thru round about 7 30 at night, sometimes did the old penny trick, put it on the line, bet you did too. Happy days eh?

If my memory serves me right, the 13a, 24, 31, 32, and 17 buses all stopped outside Lyons back in the day, I recall that two evenings running on my way home from work getting bombed by starlings there!!

I lived in Yardley Wood through the fifties, our park was Trittiford Park, used to go on the boats there every chance I got, spent many hours rowing my girl friend round there. Was,nt there a story of an unexploded bomb under the water near to the island on the pool?