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i worked in the furniture dept in the seventies fred turton was my boss, the other salesman were alf skeels, horace lee, kein warr and mr. Quinn. The warehouseman was wilf coley, lovely man reminded me of father christmas never went anywhere without his bogey.

When I was at school we always came home for lunch, we either had banana sandwiches, which I still love, or spam sandwiches with brown sauce on. I'd be sent to the local shop to get a 1/4 of spam cut thin. Hated the stuff and haven't touched it since.

Yum! Without the salt though.lol

I can remember my dad shaving the trotters before dropping them into the stew. I loved pigs foot stew as a child, far better than rabbit stew which was full of small bones. Funny as I wouldn't eat either now if you paid me. Lol

I worked in the furniture dept of the COOP in Birmingham high street during the mid seventies, when the pub bombings happened. When there was a bomb alert we would hear a message over the tannoy announcing extension 123, we new this was our prompt to look for bombs in amongst the furniture until...

My first job after leaving school was ay Lucas's Great Hampton St. They had paternoster lifts there. One day my friend and I, on the way to our odffice were brave enough to stay on the lift to see what happened when it reached the top floor, we were convinced it would turn over. It didn't...

I worked at woolies at the top of New Street in the early seventies on the fruit and veg counter, would you believe. Lol