Smethwick Striver
master brummie
I remember a cast iron gents' urinal nearby - a pissoire, in France. I wonder where that went? There's one still around near the Jewellery Quarter railway station.
Maurice/Mossy, you're very welcome. It was the same one that JennyAnn was trying to link to but for some reason her link wouldn't work so I was happy to post a more direct link which thankfully did.
If anyone has any private photos, playbill/programme information or any personal memories they wish to share either here or directly, I would be most interested to hear from you, inluding you too Richie.
all the best again to everyone for now
Nick (my father's name, incidently, was Larry Jay who used to be a silent comedian before joining Dr Crock's Crackpots).
PS If anyone is interested, there is a clip lasting 2.21 minutes on YouTube showing my father doing his comedy mime. It's a mime of a woman followed by a man sewing a button onto a jacket and kindly posted by my half-brother Paul (Eugene Cheese) who is the young man shown in the first segment playing in a phone box with my father and another so far unrecognisable man with a beard. In the unlikely event anyone should happen to recognise him, I would be very grateful for any info or a name. Thank you again. Nick [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcMXpmlxzsQ"]YouTube - How a woman, then a man sows on a button[/ame]
My dad loved Dr Crock and his crackpots, I also went to see them but can not remember a lot I must have been about 4 or 5 think it was before I started school. No one knows what I am on about when I mention their name so this is quite good for me! Whether or not I have got mixed up or not I dont know but I thought it was the same show where Max Wall appeared too, I remember really crying because he frightened me when he tried to sit on my lap, I shuddered even as a adult when I seen him.
I also remember The Morton Fraser Harmonica Gang (?) somewhere in my deep childhood recesses...