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He was the sort of dog who probably had a bit of Westie in him - but an awful lot of other things as well, never to be identified. I think he appeared one day in 1935 or 1936, in the arms of our greengrocer on Kingstanding Circle when delivering in our road and was exchanged for a shiny...

All a question of context and the evident intention of the speaker/writer, I suppose. Many words could potentially be used as terms of insult or abuse and/or have been in the past. The trouble is that increasingly, these days, no shades of grey are permitted, everything has to be, well, you...

Absolutely, Morturn. And anyone who writes about the past has to be SO careful. I can never reveal the correct name of our family pet in the 1930s and 1940s. I have always been aware of that pitfall, here and elsewhere. What I wasn't prepared for, however, was the reaction within a closed Fb...

Nor can I. None of the obvious search definitions seems to bring anything up. It may be worth trawling through this thread: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/they-were-caught-in-our-old-street-pics.41947/ Chris

This thread has been going on for a long time - it has been useful and almost certainly remains relevant but it is unwieldy, has drifted off topic and is a bit of a mess. It is therefore going to be closed for further comment and will be replaced by a new one entitled "Forum Issues After The...

This thread replaces the previous one with a similar title and is where new problems or comments should be posted from now onwards. This is intended to help Warren to pick up new issues more easily and deal with them. It is thought that there are few problems or comments which have not...

You make useful and sensible points, Andrew. I think, however, that any further discussion here on the principle of advertising may not be appropriate. Two reasons: First, decisions on advertising/funding are down entirely to the owner and the only involvement by members and Moderators is when...

Now that the serious problem of duplication of posts seems to have been satisfactorily resolved – I assume it is and the only outstanding matter is for Mods to tidy up all the affected threads – I hope it's OK to get back to the general question. We had a situation where advertisements were...

Just to say, problem still ongoing. It applies to "Conversations" - which, being translated, means to me "private mail" - as well. Chris

A good addition, Alberta! The world moves on, not always for the better. When this explanation of Moderators' duties was compiled four years ago, few of us had heard of the term "influencer". Therefore no mention was made of a newer Moderator duty, which is nowadays to vet New Members by...

Ads regularly appearing for me (on IPhone with no adblocker - why should I have to have one?) ) in mid thread, between posts. Also sometimes at the very end of a thread, like a final post. (The latter MAY be a bottom of the page advert but are in that case too close to the thread itself and...

Some of these threads have been going on for a heck of a time! Nine years ago, now, I posted something here about my first conscious view of the sea, at the age of just four. I took it into my head recently to tidy that up, illustrate it, interpret it a bit and so on, just for the family...

All the very best, Eric. Chris

Penny, you may well have already looked but there seems to be a large number of images relating to SUNBAC online if you search via Google/Images, many of them pre-war. I don't know whether any/many of them relate back to a more detailed history of the club but one or two might. Cars were...

A couple of short extracts from the full article which gives me the excuse of posting a photograph of my brother, Graham, from around that time - b. 1922 in Rubery, lived in Selly Oak, Erdington, Streetly and several hundred other places in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Austria up to November 1946...

D-Day has happened! This is what I remember of it, viewed from the following day. And also a bit of the other things which were happening to me and family in those momentous weeks, 80 years ago. Bits of this you might just remember from five years ago but it's been tidied up, expanded and...

And a Happy Birthday to James from me too. I wonder if eighty years hence he'll look back on and remember his eighth birthday, as I have been doing recently on mine. Suspect that the world might by then be an even more different place than 1944 seems to me now - which is wholly unrecognisable...

........ continued from previous post........ In these years following the end of the war, Dad has been able to do again what he has tried to do ever since he got married and my brother was born in 1922 - give his family a nice summer holiday. We go to Devon for two weeks at the the end of...

Come to think of it, what about 75 years ago today? (Not quite so easy, I find, because there are no critical dates to pin everything to). 75 years ago today was June 2nd 1949, a Thursday. I was 13. And I'd been at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School for nearly 5 years. During that time I'd had...

This is why I said I could vaguely detect a wedding ring on the correct finger - but AI image only. Chris