BazzM
master brummie
Great photo michael. I hope this jogs someone's memory on here for you. Good luck.Thank you BazzM. I have managed to find an old photo of my nan & aunt together. Hopefully this will help.
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Great photo michael. I hope this jogs someone's memory on here for you. Good luck.Thank you BazzM. I have managed to find an old photo of my nan & aunt together. Hopefully this will help.
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Hello Morvenna. Fine Fayre was a brilliant place to work at. They believed in looking after the customers & treated the staff really well. My friend who lived in chain walk was Diane Wilcox. We were really close but lost touch with her after my dad turned up at her flat one night using the excuse that he wanted directions to a pub in lozells, though there were others in aston that he used.I remember fine fayre, 'where you can be fair to your family, and your purse' the ad said. It was our local supermarket where we would shop every Friday. My friend who lived in Chain Walk was Sharon Davies, her dad was a postman. We stayed friends for years after moving, but lost touch over time.
I think bomb pecks are one of those phrases unique to Brummies, like Bobowler, cob, and 'up the bull ring'I'd never heard of the expression 'bomb peck' until I joined this Forum, we always referred to them a Bomb sites, where did the expression 'peck' come from ? Eric
I checked on google maps to see if the fine fare building was still there, & they reckon it is a mosque, though I scrolled along lozells road & it appears that the old fine fare building is still there, though it appears that it is a chemists now. It's been 40 odd years since I was down that way & have forgotten what some of the building looked like. Maybe someone can confirm that I have the right building.I noticed also, that the part of chain walk where my friend lived, is no longer there. It is just waste ground. Very sad about that.Hello Morvenna. Fine Fayre was a brilliant place to work at. They believed in looking after the customers & treated the taff really well. My friend who lived in chain walk was Diane Wilcox. We were really close but lost touch with her after my dad turned up at her flat one night using the excuse that he wanted directions to a pub in lozells, though there were others in aston that he used.
It was theft. housebreaking.factory breaking. going in and,taking items away from property ready for demolitionI cant remeber the wood yard, but i can remember the scrap yard which i use to take the old grates which i had taken out the houses that were to be demolished, i use to get a tannar for each one. I remember two shops Arthurs and Dikes or Dykes. There was an out door around the corner facing the scrap yard. BRS was at the back of our house across the road. Our neighbour were Waddon, Davis at at the end was an old lady cant remember her name but she was nice and smelt of mint.
Think you are definately right about the child abuse. Kids get away with anything these days, because the country has gone too soft.Did anyone love it when you had a loose milk tooth? Dad used to tie some cotton round it attach it to the door handle and push the door shut! You'd put the tooth under your pillow and that night the tooth fairy would come and leave you a 'tanner' it was great but in this PC society now you'd probably be had up for child abuse !!