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There was a RAF station in Hollywood Farm. It was a hush-hush radio listening post. It had to close about 1962 when flats were built nearby.

Saturday morning At the Era every week. My Mother knew an usherette and she would lift me into the balcony from the stalls. A friend of mine broke into the Era to rob the safe, but the twit left his coat there with his name inside. The manager was very posh and walked home up Blake Lane.

I consider my self a Brummie having been born in backhouse 1 back of 22 Alcock Street in the parish of St Martins in the fields. Whem did it change its name? That was when the Bull Ring was the Bull Ring and Midland Red Busses left from the middle of it.

Hi Ann, I have tried to trace my ancestry in Ireland but it is very difficult because they burnt down the records building in Dublin durring the 1920's. There are some business' that will help you at a price, but they may not get too far back.

I have read this thread with interest, my friends in Saltley had cellars, so what did they do with the soil they excavated to form the cellars?

Re: John(Jack) Hood Boxer Jack Hood ran the Bell Pub in Tanworth in Arden him and his wife were great hosts. I think his daughter used to work there too. Jack's belt was hung above the bar in the lounge which was only used by the wanabes, everybody else used the bar, where millionares rubbed...

" It's being so cheerful that keeps me going!" ITMA I think. "Are you free."

lencops, You may well be correct, I was only a baby at the time that happened and only repeat what my Mother told me.

In 1953 or 1954 my family moved into a new house that had been built on a bombed site in Burlington Road. The new houses became 120/126 Burlington Road and had to have deeper foundations because of the bombing. I had to dig bricks out of the garden and clean off the old morter and with these we...

I went to the FOB with my school, it was unforgetable. We stayed in accommodation in underground tunnels used by homeless people, many houses having been bombed and not rebuilt. We also toured London, mainly museums, travelling on the tube. My school was Marlborough Road Secondary Modern. Can't...

I past my exam at Lionel Street in 1952 and enjoyed being a cadet. I remember going by train to Worcester Race Course for a parade that was inspected by Princess Margaret. We marched from the station to the race course, then around the track to our positions. It was a hot day (for the UK) and...

I have been out of Birmingham for about 46 years, so have been out of touch with most things, but it was with great sadness that I read of the closing of Morris Commercial Cars in 1972. MCC was more than a factory, it was a community. Many generations of families worked there and had strong...

Hi miggy3, I worked for a while in the Jig and Tool drawing office but did not know a draughtsman with one arm. I left MCC in 1959 (approx) to work at SU Carbs. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Astonian, It was Pathe. but they amalgamated with other companies like Gaumont. I think the bloke in charge was Mr Fullilove or Mr Fulliforce. Mr Bibb was apprentice supervisor, Alf was foreman Neville Kershaw was leading hand but he went on to be apprentice superviser. I am a life member of...

Hi Astonian, I was a Nuffield Apprentice 1955 to 1960. I was there when the bank of the local railway station collapsed blocking the line and exposing incendiary bombs that had missed the factories during the war. The clean up gang did not know what they were, so tried to smash them with sledge...

When the Bull Ring was refurbished in the 60's Nelson was moved down a side street facing a tailor's shop. The council had to come down and turn him around because women customers complained he was looking at them!!!

I remember the pie van at Snow Hill Station from my teen years and early twenties, did they do a "pie floater" I can't remember if I got them there or London. My first memory of Snow Hill was during the war, walking along holding my mother's hand to catch the train north to the ferry to Belfast...

Don't know much about my late father's "Dad's Army", service, but I had an uncle who was a WO1 Armourer in the RAF. One day on a flight out of Singapore the aircraft was told not to return because Singapore had fallen, so they went to India. One day, when we were living in Fifth Avenue, he came...

I told my story to a friend on Bordesley Green Technical School and he said I should tell in on The Blitz. I was born in 1939, just before the war, in Deritend (dirty end) Bham. My father was Irish and could only get work on a daily basis. When the war started he got regular work and moved to...

As it begins to warm up down here, I remember how bitterly cold it gets in the UK during winter and every time we used to do gymnastics or sport at the school, afterwards we had to strip off naked and run through the cold water showers. The Deputy Headmaster used to come into the change room to...