Brummygirl66
master brummie
I've been reading with a great deal of interest about fellow members childhoods and have seen that people would like to read accounts of slightly younger people's childhoods, so here goes....
I was born in 1966 at St Chad's Hospital on the Hagley Road and lived for the first 9 years old my life in Smethwick, moving to Bearwood where I lived through my teens and into my early twenties.
We lived just off the High Street, and some of my first memories involved playing in our unusually long back garden, and finding a litter of kittens in the long grass, my mom's cat had given birth to a litter of kittens, the father was our families huge black cat Enoch, he was named for Enoch Powell by my granddad after the "Rivers of Blood" speech, he liked the idea of a big black cat being named Enoch!!
Mom gave away most of the kittens, but I was allowed to keep one, a beautiful grey tabby with a ruff round his neck called Podge, I think this is where my life long love of cats must've come from. Podge came to a sad end though, he was knocked over and killed by a panda car, the young policeman was so upset at my tears I remember, he came back a few days later to see if I was ok, a genuinely nice man.
Things I remember, playing in the garden with my next door neighbours, the Hall family and putting their little sister Sandra in a pushchair , my beloved Humpty Dumpty that my nan knitted me, the little brown bear my dad brought me from Dillons papershop by the Blue Gates the day I was born, the only shop open on Easter Tuesday and my nearly as big as me doll I named Victoria Sandra.
Watching "Watch with Mother" with my nan, I especially loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and had LP records with (I think) various episodes and songs on them. Mary, Mungo and Midge was another especial favourite when I was very small.
Wednesday's my nan and I would go down to the High Street to do some shopping (shops on both sides then) and pay the Relay for our TV, then we would always go to Firkins and get me either a doughnut or iced bun, then up to Matty's chippy for some chips with batters, Matty's was at the top of the High Street, where it divided into St Paul's Road and Oldbury Road, and by where the 87 would stop with the Bundy clock.
Some afternoons after a nap, we would walk up to Stony Lane Park and I would have a swing or nan would push me a little bit on the roundabout, then a walk round the pool, feed the ducks and home for tea, usually a stew in the winter.
We would also have a story in the afternoon and I could read before I started school, this led to a lifelong love of books and reading, and as soon as I was old enough, I became a member of the Children's Library on the High Street.
Well, that was when I was very little, I'll cover my school days and playing out in my next post!
Hope this hasn't bored you all too much!
I was born in 1966 at St Chad's Hospital on the Hagley Road and lived for the first 9 years old my life in Smethwick, moving to Bearwood where I lived through my teens and into my early twenties.
We lived just off the High Street, and some of my first memories involved playing in our unusually long back garden, and finding a litter of kittens in the long grass, my mom's cat had given birth to a litter of kittens, the father was our families huge black cat Enoch, he was named for Enoch Powell by my granddad after the "Rivers of Blood" speech, he liked the idea of a big black cat being named Enoch!!
Mom gave away most of the kittens, but I was allowed to keep one, a beautiful grey tabby with a ruff round his neck called Podge, I think this is where my life long love of cats must've come from. Podge came to a sad end though, he was knocked over and killed by a panda car, the young policeman was so upset at my tears I remember, he came back a few days later to see if I was ok, a genuinely nice man.
Things I remember, playing in the garden with my next door neighbours, the Hall family and putting their little sister Sandra in a pushchair , my beloved Humpty Dumpty that my nan knitted me, the little brown bear my dad brought me from Dillons papershop by the Blue Gates the day I was born, the only shop open on Easter Tuesday and my nearly as big as me doll I named Victoria Sandra.
Watching "Watch with Mother" with my nan, I especially loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and had LP records with (I think) various episodes and songs on them. Mary, Mungo and Midge was another especial favourite when I was very small.
Wednesday's my nan and I would go down to the High Street to do some shopping (shops on both sides then) and pay the Relay for our TV, then we would always go to Firkins and get me either a doughnut or iced bun, then up to Matty's chippy for some chips with batters, Matty's was at the top of the High Street, where it divided into St Paul's Road and Oldbury Road, and by where the 87 would stop with the Bundy clock.
Some afternoons after a nap, we would walk up to Stony Lane Park and I would have a swing or nan would push me a little bit on the roundabout, then a walk round the pool, feed the ducks and home for tea, usually a stew in the winter.
We would also have a story in the afternoon and I could read before I started school, this led to a lifelong love of books and reading, and as soon as I was old enough, I became a member of the Children's Library on the High Street.
Well, that was when I was very little, I'll cover my school days and playing out in my next post!
Hope this hasn't bored you all too much!