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I was in the Tavern in the Town the night of the bombings & left very shortly before it went off- only because we had wanted to watch 'Monty Python' that night & needed to catch the train home- I will always be grateful to John Cleese et al for this. We certainly would have been in there if it...

I went to HKPS from 1958 (was two and a half) to 1963 before going to Astwell Preparatory School as HKPS was to close down. The headmistress was Miss Bunn but I remember a lovely teacher there called Miss Summerfield. The grounds were stunning or it could have just been me as I was so small. I...

Astwell Preparatory School Handsworth Kindergarten Prepartory School - Park Lane , Handsworth

My Godfather had an old-fashioned cobblers on Aston Lane- Harold Bradbury. His wife's name was Doris. Does anyone remember them? I spent many a happy hour playing in his shop & making things out of old bits of leather!!!!!

You can see a dog but if you look a different way you will see that it could be a tunnel & what you are looking at that appears to be a dog is infact the ground beyond the tunnel.......

I used to play in the hermit's cave.... Well say 'play' .....I went in once and it terrified me so much that I wouldn't go in again. The cave entrance which you had to crawl through eventually opened out into a small room which was lit by candles. It was above the river Tame going into the...

Browns Green was on the corner of Friary Road and ?..Handsworth New Road (the main Road that went to Hamstead from Wellington Road. There are blocks of flats on the corner- my husband & I rented one when we were first married.

I remember hearing you!!! I was 'Gold Top' - I had bleached hair in those days!!!!!

My dad was in the advert for Esso Blue!! We used to sell it from our shop on the Soho Road!

My mum and dad had a hardware shop at number 113 Soho Road until the mid 70s. Whenever I smell paraffin I go back there in my mind!!!!

I remember ths school quite well as I went to it. It was called Astwell Preparatory School. I was there for a couple of years as my previous school- Handsworth Kindergarten Preparatory School was about to close down. I was removed from the school after I was given a public caning for a really...

Between 72 and 77 when I got married, I had my walls plastered with pickies of David Bowie........ It's good to hear him even today!!!!

I didn't have many parties but I do remember one with fond memories of team racing where we had two teams & each member of each team would have to put on a load of my mum's clothes on run up the garden then back again, take everything off & then it was the next one's go. The winner was the...