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Immersion in any form of citric acid ( vinegar or lemon juice) or coca cola (yuk) will clean both non precious and silver medals. There are firms advertising on Ebay that offer a complete restoration of medals and replacement of ribbons at a very reasonable cost. I had my fathers medals restored...

Mc Donalds is the closest. The signs on the closed gents directs you to conveniences in a shopping mall...that is guarded by an attendant collecting an admission fee. There was no way...no matter how desperate I was...Mc Ds became my temple of relief.

:( nods indeed, very strong lager. A party of us went there to celebrate passing our finals... 7 litre steins of lager went down my throat that night, so legless was I that I got seperated from the party and decided to stagger home to Aldridge on my own. I managed to reach an underpass and...

Is this the Bogarts beer keller in New St with the German oompah band pam?

Hi jennyann It was not at all unusual to be without a christening certificate because certainly at Birchfield church the certificate was an optional extra. My parents had to pay 2 shillings for mine which equated to a fifth of the weeks rent money, my father had to collect mine on pay day. It is...

:DI'm sure that an inducement of a small monetary donation would ensure a visit to the vestry with Canon Eve ;)

:D Never slow in coming forward Lyn..and I am very competitive but I guess this particular race was out of our control. Apparently the church is open on Wednesdays between 11-12, if you get there any sooner you may become actively involved in the service... and the natives are very friendly :D...

Thank you for those Lyn, I was in the church recently myself as I too was christened there in 1951. I had the opportunity to talk to the vicar, Canon Eve and a number of the congregation about the history of the church and its current state of repair. £100,000 needs to be raised to renovate the...

I may be corrected but I am sure the only indexes that exist for these cemeteries are held by the respective cemetery offices as they are still accepting interments. I think you will need to phone or write to each of them, I understand Witton staff will often do a simple search free of charge...

Struth Ray, that proposal begs the question where they intended getting the human blood from. There was a huge shortage of transfusion blood which means there was only one other source...the dead! Illogical reasoning perhaps but Im now off the Black Pudding for life.

Mike So at the bash when all of the bacon butties, chips and roasties have disapeared very early on we will know where to look...thats if you get to the table before me that is. John

Hi Mike Though a child of the fifties I was always encouraged to clear my plate and like you this conditioning has maintained my comfortable figure to this day. The inference of Bernards post was that the population was fitter on low fat diets, advice that is still valid today though my point...

Indeed Bernard though I was not born until 1951. I think the general fitness was due to activity rather than the lesser consumption of animal fats and sugars. There were far less cars and sedentary employment,folk walked and cycled and were far more active than today. Diet and inactivity is the...

Thank you for that Dennis, very interesting. The sketch indicates a mummified cadaver with some tearing of the abdominal skin. I understood contemporary reports suggested there were "decomposition vapours" that a dessicated body would not produce. There may have been some artistic license in the...

Marvellous photos thank you. So Dudley council have spent public money to dismantle a building to give an uninterrupted view of a derelict castle that sits so high it can be seen from miles. Im sure the residents of Dudley will be queuing to stand where the hippodrome once stood to admire the view.

Vanishing printer ink Can anyone explain where all the ink has gone please?

Legally your your records would have had to be maintained until your 25th birthday after which time, unless they were selected as being of spectacular interest would have been destroyed. I know forensic photographs of the injuries sustained in the 74 bombings still exist in archive form as were...

I am sure Carl Chinn is ferociously proud of his working class Brummie roots and has never found the need for elocution lessons. Admittedly, there will be those that dislike the flat vowels of the Birmingham accent just as others will have a loathing of the scouse, geordie and Scottish accents...

I so agree, the presenter had little personality and having the charisma and vocabularly of a classics professor at Cambridge. A mere 9 minutes was dedicated to George Dawson, the depth of content not really reflecting how great this man may have been.

Bennetts butcher in Wednesfield High St used to have daily deliveries of home made faggots in thick gravy, made by a lady locally.Absolutely delicious but you had to get there early otherwise they would be all gone. Any money, the food regulations have stopped the retailing of any product not...