hi rod top of the morning to you , i liked your article on the flix , and i liked the pics of your badges i remember when they first issued them out , but unfortuately i haven,t got them now , when iwas a kid and lived up cromwell terrace lichfield rd aston at 5/92 there were a big army of kids , it was like the movies crazy gang , and we would go down along the lichfield rd go to where the big family of the sargents lived and we would have a gang fight with them we would chase them up and down there entry and they would chase us back down , to ours but we was only seven or eight or nine years old ,, any way getting back to the badges , a kid by the name of morriss newman was the first kid up the terrace to get the badges , when he told us of his new addition , co,s he collected badges we asked where he got them from , and when he told us we all decided we want one , so all the kids asked there moms can they go to the picures , in the end we all got one we was all wearing them and feeling proud as punch, , i often wonder what ever happened to the family of cromwell terrace , names i can recall are jenny gough , morris newman katrina branston , she was the posh one peter sharpe , bryan haddock , he moved to alum rock way back in 1954 /55/ patty sheldon johny seabourne the trowman twin, s or brothers caral gammage , ray ,and terry jarratt, and of course my very best mate through and through was colin gaskin , he had two sisters name janet and sandra , whom i believe went to work at H P SAUCE on the day i went to join the army in the waiting area sitting oppersite me was a person i thought i knew, so i spoke out to him , i said you remind me of an old school friend and neibour and he said i was just thinking that myself and we introduced our selfs and god almighty it was him after all these years , he was going into the tank regiment , just like his father he had been an officier in there for years before he married his mother ,and i was going into the royal warick fusaliars , and iv,e never seen again after all these years, but getting back to the flicks ,rod , i got the badge and worn it , and lost it many years ago in my school days , and i was a real film buff, especialy for the western,s i take by what you are saying you was a big fan of the duke himself , big john wayne, i liked him , but my hero was and still a member of the club his roy rogers and trigger , i have got several annuals of the old books with roy and trigger , i was so obessed with him i used to go to the astoria on victoria rd , aston on a saturday morning and pay threepence for the mattee , and go back on the evening and pay a tanner for the evening show , and i would go along the rd to the aston cross pic, or to the aldephie on the aston cross ,which was turned into atv studios, when roy was being shown , there , i was just like any other kid whom ever came out of the pictures and reand act what i had seen, especialy being a cow boy we ,ve all been there my aunt maud smart used to work there in the fifties in the box office and she would smuggle me in under her coat , on the saturday afternoon, on the last occasion when i came out i pretentend to be roy rodgers on trigger , i came out of the pics house pretentending to hold the horses reins, and gallop along the road for afew yards and pretend i was talking to trigger ,, saying things like hang on trgger theres one of those dammed motor cars , which was in them days the old baby austin pulling out just out side woolworths , i said okay trigger letts go , but unfortunealy trigger and me got knocked down and it was a hit and run driver , and i ended up in the old general hospital, and they operated on me all night to save me with a blood transfusion and debating whether or not to amplitate my leg co,s the bone had smashed to a pulp, , and they decided to put a plate in there becos the bone had gone and i can walk on that , my grand father ernie jelf was in that hospital and in the same ward and the same bed on the previos day having his toes ampitated on his right foot, some of my family say i look like my grand father jelf, and i certainly look like my mother , whom was his only child, her name joyce ivvy beatrice jelf, sorry if i have gone off the tracks abit rod butits my part of the memories of the flicks ,and movies , and hero , s and of cours badges, his there any more fans of roy rodgers, out there , ? can i just mention to you rod , that when i was a big film buff ; my biggest favourite film of all time was april love starring pat boone , i used to pay half a crown at the crown picture house on ickneild port road lady wood and i went every afternoon and night showing of that film it must have been at least 200 hundred times, there rod , here his my hero the king of the wild west, and one of my favorite annuals 1552,, addios my friends , astonian ,;;;;