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When you see inside those Bally bingo macines it is incrdeible, lots of motorised rotating disks with hundreds of tiny contacts that so start needing adjustment eventually, My 2 pinballs from the 1990's have a pcu and motherboard etc and various chips for sound so far more complicated to...

I can't remember the name of the cafe, I remember one day someone had ramped up the odds to highest by spending credits and then managed to get the maximum 5 in a line and the machines counter clock began clunk,clunk,clunk and a big crowd gathered round to watch as it went to around 600 after...

Yes, right back to the 1960's I played in there, the cafe I mention did not have flipper machines but what they called bingo machine which had rows of holes You had to carefully try and get balls in a line to win credits which the owner paid out under the counter or as it was illegal to pay...

Are you displaying your Rover at Redditch town centre classic car show this weekend?

The BBC don't make anything much anymore in the drama, comedy and light entertainment type stuff, they farm everything out to independent companies who make big profits and yet they want the license to keep increasing to allow them to squander money like they have always done in the past, it...

There is only one name on there I don't recognise, Martin St James. I looked him up and he was a hypnotist and a surprising amount of info is on the net saying how amazing he was

Not B,ham but all of these would have appeared here, look at how low the entrance fee was back then :eek: Shirley Bassey was rather expensive compared to all the rest. Even USA top acts like Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney only rated £1 entrance and booked for a week or more It is undated but...

I didn't get another attack so whatever it was received a headache after slamming into the camera. I think it was most likely an Owl, we get one that hoots and another type that makes a screetch. The hooters are a pair usually in nearby trees either front or rear of our house

Are there any bird experts here who can suggest what attacked my wildlife camera at 9.15 last night. I had it on our upstairs front window for 3 weeks fixed on with a suction pad bracket and safety string, Looking down on our drive, we see a fox every night and a badger occasionally and once a...

Our family moved when l was 15 to Tollhouse road in 1961, it's just up from the Longbridge lsland next to Nazareth house. All night long was a continuous humming noise from across the Rednal road. Back then they had steam trains shunting back and forth all night as well so we were glad to move...

I hope you told her the NT restoration is pure fantasy and does't reflect the hard times and struggle that many tenants suffered. No damp stains creeping up or down the wallpaper ?, no cardboard over a broken window because the landlord would not repair it?. Nicely painted windows and doors...

I remember it vividly, mum would always take us up the stone steps with the bronze handrail and past 'the bomb' so we could see the pet shop. It also had big fish tanks as well as kittens and puppies etc. The central handrail down the steps had studs on it to stop kids sliding down it!

Footage detectives are on Talking pictures tv

Just looking at this map shows Exeter place, back in the early 1960's this was what could only be decribed as a real slum. I worked in Bow sreet from 1961, the building shown there as a clothing factory became G.W. Stokes shopfitters and l worked there. The top floor had a view straight across...

My Aunt & Uncle lived right by the anti aircraft guns in Swanshurst park that used to shake the ground up to 1/2 a mile away

They continued to test them into the 1950's, I grew up in Weoley Castle but there was a siren on the old Harborne swimming baths roof and I remember it going off with the all clear siren when us kids were over that direction, does anyone remember that?

That was my era and I lived in Weoley Castle in the 1950's so just a short walk away so could actually be on that photo! those were happy days

Gordon Kaye (Allo Allo) in Stirchley doing his shopping at a greengrocer, elderly crossroads character who lived on a barge? was walking round Horsefair where he had an apartment

Yes, I did the same, aged just 11 :innocent: we were told by older kids to say we were 16 and worked at the BSA and even with our squeeky voices they still let us in :joy: Us kids got up to all sorts of tricks back then, climbing over the gate at the Raven pub and getting an arm full of empty...

For me it was either walking to the WOB :D in Weoley Castle where I lived in the 1950's or getting the 22 bus to Selly 'Oak' cinema and walking back afterwards, someone used to walk along the waiting line handing us a picture card