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Mossy
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Dianne the cider pub that you mentioned was it ''The Monkey House'':shh:Mossy
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Dianne
In your directions of how to get to the cider house, you start from a point coming up Melvina Rd.
Where would you have been coming from? It would have been simpler to have gone down Mevina Rd and turned right under the bridge at Saltley Rd (by the modern art sculpture, is it still there) and took the first on the left.
Phil
In your directions of how to get to the cider house, you start from a point coming up Melvina Rd.
Where would you have been coming from? It would have been simpler to have gone down Mevina Rd and turned right under the bridge at Saltley Rd (by the modern art sculpture, is it still there) and took the first on the left.
Phil
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Mossy
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Pmc getting there was easy which ever way you went the problem was getting home
Mossy
Mossy
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Mossy
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Pmc1947 do you remember Father Thomas going round all the pubs in Nechells with his collection box by the time he got round them he was a bit worse for wear,he was always a jolly man always laughing
Was you in the Adelaide when Johnny Twiford (R I P) nicked his bike for a laugh.... Mossy
Was you in the Adelaide when Johnny Twiford (R I P) nicked his bike for a laugh....
Mossy
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mossy
No I was not there that night , but everybody in Nechells knew father Thomas, I knew Johnny Twyford well and his wife Rennie, they were always at my mothers house. I knew them from Francis St, before they moved to Inkerman St. They were big friends of my family. I knew all the Irish crowd that used to drink in the back room of the Adelaide.
Phil
No I was not there that night , but everybody in Nechells knew father Thomas, I knew Johnny Twyford well and his wife Rennie, they were always at my mothers house. I knew them from Francis St, before they moved to Inkerman St. They were big friends of my family. I knew all the Irish crowd that used to drink in the back room of the Adelaide.
Phil
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Mossy
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Pmc the irish crowd were good friends of ours unfotunately a lot of them are no longer with us,when the Adelaide closed they used the club up Revesby Walk we used to have a great sing along,also the Riggys Billy(R I p) used the Hamlet bar and sang the hits of 60s good old days people got dressed up to go out then
Mossy
Mossy
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Mossy
Was you in the in the Adelaide the night that the bloke got hit across the head with an axe.
Did you ever see Johnny Twyford perform his party piece, Frankie Lymons "I'm not a Juvenile Deliquent" I remember him when he was eighteen years of age singing this at a party in our house when I was about 12. I also remember him as being one of the smartest dressed blokes around in those days.
Phil
Was you in the in the Adelaide the night that the bloke got hit across the head with an axe.
Did you ever see Johnny Twyford perform his party piece, Frankie Lymons "I'm not a Juvenile Deliquent" I remember him when he was eighteen years of age singing this at a party in our house when I was about 12. I also remember him as being one of the smartest dressed blokes around in those days.
Phil
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dereklcg
master brummie
hi mossy,
what year we talking?
do you remember a big Irishman tommy Kincaid ?
if you met him you would,nt forget him,drank in the Adelaida
and anywhere that took his fancy the gardeners was another place.
i used to work with him in saltley,
i also new father Thomas i used to go to st Matthews
as it was across grt lister st from were i lived in Cromwell st.
happy days. regards dereklcg.
what year we talking?
do you remember a big Irishman tommy Kincaid ?
if you met him you would,nt forget him,drank in the Adelaida
and anywhere that took his fancy the gardeners was another place.
i used to work with him in saltley,
i also new father Thomas i used to go to st Matthews
as it was across grt lister st from were i lived in Cromwell st.
happy days. regards dereklcg.
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Kandor
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Kandor
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Tell you what Phil, the place could do with one..
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Kandor
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No Phil, they were the only ones in the area..
dereklcg
master brummie
hi ya ger22van locko photo,
what year is that mate?
the teacher looks like mr white to me?
regards derek.
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Mossy
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Great photos troops,Les i cant believe the Hamlet do you think they are going to leave those famous steps there,the blue lamp made me laugh cop shop it would get nicked round there
Pmc no i was not there the night the bloke got axe in his head,he must have asked for his beer to be topped up Mossy
Pmc no i was not there the night the bloke got axe in his head,he must have asked for his beer to be topped up
Mossy
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Mossy
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There was a pub in Duke St it was called the Duke all the local plod used it
dereklcg
master brummie
cheers mate you,re a bit in front of me,i started infants in 1953 and went through till i left and went to
charlie arthur street.
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pedlarman
master brummie
Hi GER22VAN
What year was your aunt an uncle born - you may have posted this b4 but being blonde I do not absorb everything- the reason I ask is Mom was born 1929 in Devon St - Mom remembers everything and everyone from that time (and even before her time!) - I also have a 98 year young Great Great Uncle who lived in Devon Street whose memory is still crystal clear - I interrogate him on a regular basis - his only payment is a bottle of Jack Daniels and a packet of 10 fags - it is a pleasure to buy them for him !
Dianne: Ask your mom and/or your gt.gt. uncle whether they remember Harry Jones, the bookie, who used to operate (when it was illegal to take bets!) from my Aunt Lil's house in Devon Street.
I think it was No. 10 - I'm not sure - but it was near the Duddeston Mill Road end...
In those days (I was about 15) telephones were at a premium and you couldn't get one for love nor money. But Uncle Harry was in cahoots with another bookie who operated at the bottom end of Devon Street. This bookie had a 'phone...
Uncle Harry asked me if I would work for him on Saturdays. My job? Every half-hour or so, I would jump on my racing bike and dash down Devon Street to the other bookie who would have the results waiting for me on a piece of notepaper to dash off back up Devon Street to hand them to Uncle Harry.
Harry would then work out the "Winnings" he needed to pay out...
Well, they say the bookie always won, and Harry Jones did alright. He later was moved with his family under the re-building scheme to the Lea Hall area, where (when Bookmaking was legalised) he opened up a thriving Bookmaking business.
Harry operated in the area for many years, until his death, at which his other members of his family took over.
Those were the days...!
Regards,
Jim Pedley
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KeithH
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Worked in the Hamlet from around 1969 -1971 for big Ron, before moving around the corner to the Conservative club working for Jack Capewell.
I worked at the Hamlet around 1969 when big Ron was the gaffer. Yes I knew most of them as Jack Capewell was Irish so all his mates came in to the Con club. Johnnie Twyford, Dicky Clinch, Bernard and Shamus Lynch and their brother who was a bus conductor where a few I remember but there were many more.
I remember a Lad named Robin who also worked behind the bar in the Con club he worked in the day as an annoucer on New Street station
I remember a Lad named Robin who also worked behind the bar in the Con club he worked in the day as an annoucer on New Street station
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