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Hi Bri, nearly snap again. I (we) have just had a rough one week (four days in bed + a bottle of cough mixture which has played havoc with my ticker) have to resort to the Doctors tomorrow to try and get some magic pills otherwise I will end up needing an iron lung for sure. I remember the lads...

Thanks for putting me right Phil, here was I previously thinking that the present day obesity was due to the proliferation of the takeaways when in fact the real reason is the absence of physical energy in the kids leisure activities. Jim.

Hi Bri - Can't remember anyone from either the B.B or the ATC. I'm gutted to hear about your wife all I can say is it's a good job she married you and our thoughts are with you both. I should add that I have had AF now for a number of years so I am odds on rather than odds against to experience...

Dear Bri - 3 of the brainwashing songs I remember were joy joy my heart is full of joy - I am aitch A pee pee why, repeat; I know I am I'm sure I am I am aitch A pee pee why. Jesus died for all the children, all the children of the world, red and yellow black and white all are precious in his...

Hi Bri, when I have the time I intend to clock the mileage from Holmesfield Road and ditto Bradfield Road where I lived and see if I have a case (retrospective) of claiming the cost of some shoe leather from the Education Authority. I'm guessing that you were deferred at 18 due to your...

Hi Bri - The fact that you went to Birchfield Road School suggests that you moved from Holmesfield Road when you were 11. Is this correct, if not how old were you when you did leave the estate? - Lumbago now gone - all the best Jim.

I think you're pulling my leg about your age otherwise how come you rode the winner of the 3-10 at Carlisle this afternoon? - Namely- One For Harry 9/4 favourite. I think you're probably right about the pills. Can you recommend a particular one? Have had a bad spell of lumbago this week (DIY...

Thanks Bri but I still have a query; presumably one would surrender one's shell (do you think I might have royal ancestors?) when one received one's bread & jam. How would one be distinguished to gain access to the gym? Was it (a) you were allowed to retain your shell - must have been two sizes...

Do indeed Phil, trouble is I now want to know how far we used to walk alongside the brook over Hassop Road over Beeches Road and where then, was it the sandpits and beyond to St.Margarets where the toads were where you used to shoot at them with your webley? On another link you mention our...

The top end of Hassop Road was the community centre where I used to play snooker. Just round the corner in Beeches Road (latterly) was a hairdressers which I believe was owned by either the wife or sister of Alfie Holder. The pub at the bottom of the road was of course The Beeches which became...

Re: Kids Street Games Remember it well Phil, a small can with as many holes punched into the sides as you could manage. A piece of wire looped to form a handle at the top usually giving you about a foot safety margin at the top so you wouldn't burn your hand as you swung it in arcs to keep the...

My memories of the brook include the tree at the side of it which we tied a rope to one of the branches and used to swing out over the water and the jump off back onto dry land. This was fine until one day on my second swing another lad jumped on the rope with me and of course all momentum was...

Thanks Bri I used to use the gym so I must have paid the tuppence. Perhaps there were some occasions when I had to leave early, hence the one and a half - cheers! P.S. Anyone who gives me a cup of tea and two slices of bread & jam for a penny halfpenny is a true friend. Just because I haven't...

Thanks again oldun, I remember five of those names which proves I've not quite gone yet. Just to put me straight re the shells, were they ever a penny halfpenny as I recall or were they tuppence as someone else has mentioned in a previous post?

Thanks Phil, Polly on the Mopstick or weak horses as it was sometimes called we used to play a lot in the evenings alternating with 'Retreat' or Tracking as it was also named. Mrs Marchant together with daughter Sheila (tall angular girl) lived probably at number 11 which was about the sixth...

Snap with the piano lessons although I had mine from a lady who lived in a bungalow halfway up Beeches Rd (hill) on the left hand side. Woodhall rings a bell as I associate it with another lad off the Beeches named Aspinall. Your predecessors at the tea lark were two of my mates Geogie Gowler...

Thanks old un - does that mean you are the same age as Les and I at 81? He was in my class at school (4.I) and I remember one day when Mr Edge was inspecting our teeth he said to Les you have been smoking. I also recall Les had a plumbers shop not far from the Boars Head pub and opposite Perry...

Hill doesn't ring a bell but I remember Eric Homer lived in one of the houses adjacent to ours which was almost demoshed due to the aerial torpedo hitting the back gardens.

I'm very glad you did join - my reason is a quest for our cricket team photos of 1947/1948. I have to say your photo reminds me of one of our team named Ballinger.Can you tell me whose class you were in and what house? I was in Lichfield. Any of these names ring a bell? Leslie Jeavons, Derek...

I was at Aldridge Rd from 44 to 48 (when did you leave for newer pastures?) do you know of anyone else of my age group who uses this site? kind regards and keep going!