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The question of people's honesty in those days may have partly been due to the 'Blitz' where people shared air raid shelters and were much closer to each other and helped one another in all things and everyone knew each other's business! Am I being too philosophical?

Here you are Jayell - one of you old haunts.

Hi JayelI - I see you were a girl about town in those days! We might well have crossed paths at some stage.

Wonderful pictures, but conditions were dreadful, mostly outside loos. But the people were generally hard working and honest. I had a part time job as a payments collector for a credit draper in the, in the Lozells and Aston area and collected on a weekly basis. Some customers were out at work...

My memory (which is now becoming hazy in my dotage) is that the Opposite Lock Club was opposite the locks of Gas Street Basin. The owner also had a car steering wheel hanging on the wall at the back of the bar. For such a small cosy club we used to get some well known entertainment...

Hello Tony - I do remember the cable system and If my (fading) memory serves me right, your sister's name was Janet? she had dark hair? What happened to her? My first teacher at Dorrington Road was a very stern Mrs Kirkham. My name is Arthur Waldron. I was courting a Sheila Morgan who lived in...

I lived in Dorrington Road, opposite the school, during the war. Our house was hit with incendiary bombs and a newly built Caretakers House (not yet lived in) opposite was totally destroyed by a HE bomb, blowing our windows out. By this time in the war, we had become complacent and were not...

Hi Judy - after all these years (a flash from the past), I have remember the Clifton Cinema manager's name when I used to visit in the forties - Mr Hall.

The Opposite Lock off Broad Street was a great little club in the 50's. But does anyone remember the Westminster Dance & Rhythm Club in Westminster Road, Birchfield. It was members only, because it opened only on Sundays and in the 50's - no dancing allowed in Birmingham.

Thanks for the picture, but it does not ring any bells - I was only 6 in 1940. It must have been the manager who followed who I remember most.

My memories of the manager, presumably your dad, was that he was very tall and had wavy hair - would that be him?

Indeed I do - that's Geo Tucker (Eyelets) Ltd. factory on the left.

I stumbled on this thread by accident and it was sad to see the poor old Clifton in such a state. It was such a wonderful art-deco building. If your father was manager during that time, I would have known him (my poor recollection - I was only a child - thinks his name may have been Mr Hall?)...

I collected loads of shrapnel and stored it in the shed together with 5 fins from incendiary bombs. One of which came through the roof and landed in my pillow, luckily my mother had come to insist that we were to go down to the shelter since ' they were getting a bit close tonight' and we only...

I very well remember the tanks off Walsall Road - used to play in them quite often. Regarding Perry Hall playing fields - I am surprised no one's mentioned the ack-ack and searchlight batteries that were there during the war (is everyone too young?), A real fascination for us young lads. After...

After I left Dorrington Road school and moved to Handsworth Grammar, I used to cycle through the park from the Lavendon Road entrance to the Cherry Wood Road entrance on my way to and from school. We used to play impromotue cricket and football matches in the park and cut out a 'speedway' track...

Regarding Perry Hall playing fields - I am surprised no one's mentioned the ack-ack and searchlight batteries that were there during the war (is everyone too young?), A real fascination for us young lads. After the family got tired of going down the shelter during the blitz, I used to watch the...

I might be able to throw some light on G & C in the 50's - I still have a letter dated 6th December 1955, signed by Martin Chambers, offering me a job as cost clerk at £8.0s.0d per week. I started work at Dalex Works, Coleshill St. One of the clerks in this very old office (heated by a central...