A Birmingham Christmas Wish List

[Astoness]

Thank you. There are more and when I get round to it will post one of Elmdon park taken in the winter of 63.

would love to see that film when time permits ...

lyn

 

[wendylee]

No.1 on my Birmingham wish list would be 1960s taking my son to Lewis' Christmas Grotto

Oh the best Christmas Grottos were at Lewis's

 

[sospiri]

My best memories were of the Firebird in Carrs Lane and to bring that back would be top of my Brum Christmas List. Second on the List would be the Burbary clay pit with its newts and me 70 odd years younger!

Oh, and when I'd cleaned myself up and added a few years, lunch in the original Wimpy at the top of Snow hill!

Maurice

 

[Richard Dye]

I was too young to remember Barrows Stores and would have loved to have visited it. So this is going on my wish list. What item(s) of Birmingham would you put on yours? Viv.

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Great store...…….

 

[jmadone]

Oh the best Christmas Grottos were at Lewis's

I have posted this before on a Lewis' thread


My wife visiting Father Xmas at Lewis

 

[Richard Dye]

I have posted this before on a Lewis' thread
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My wife visiting Father Xmas at Lewis

Agree; Lewis's was really great at Christmas!

 

[wendylee]

Thank you. There are more and when I get round to it will post one of Elmdon park taken in the winter of 63.

Oooh would love to see the one of Elmdon Park 1963

 

[ade]

I would love to see the old oasis store back how it was in the seventies and eighties also the original big co-op what used to be in town, that was the first time I ever saw a Sony Walkman, they had the launch in there, I remember asking how much they were and just thinking who could ever afford one of those

 

[Out in the sticks Brummy]

Agree; Lewis's was really great at Christmas!

You knew it was almost Christmas when you went to Lewis's to see Father Christmas and going into Woolies to get Christmas cards and decorations and new festoon bulbs for the tree lights

 

[Out in the sticks Brummy]

I loved going to town and standing hearing the starlings come in to roost on the buildings as it was getting dusk' this was always a memory of Christmas

 

[John k]

I would love to see the old oasis store back how it was in the seventies and eighties also the original big co-op what used to be in town, that was the first time I ever saw a Sony Walkman, they had the launch in there, I remember asking how much they were and just thinking who could ever afford one of those

Yeah those Sony’s were big bucks. I don’t remember anyone having a real one , just Argos ripoffs etc. When the Sony shop opened in Walsall in 82 we used to go in just to LOOK at them knowing that none of us would ever be able to afford one. They may have been about £90 at that time. Come to think of it, none of us could even afford the high end Sony blank cassettes that were supposedly mate from some kind of metal.

 

[Robert Ensor (bob)]

To have another Christmas dinner with everyone there.

On a lighter note that would give my wife chance to use the family silver again along with the crystal glass and the good china.

 

[mw0njm.]

That film really sums up Christmas of the 60's, bang on. Nothing will replace waking xmas morning, pressies at the end of the bed.

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