Paula Bryars
proper brummie kid
My mother used to push me in my pram from 'the terminus' (by the Yenton pub) to 'the village' (Erdington). Once, my grandmother had visited the fishmonger at the terminus and had purchased a fish. She brought it home and arranged a piece of newspaper neatly round it, which she then gave to me, saying, 'Here's a dolly for you!' I refused to be parted from my new doll and my mother pushed me to Erdington library with it. She eventually removed it after I had gone to sleep. I can only have been two or three years old at the time, but it is one of my earliest memories. Has anybody heard of a similar 'doll'? I'd love to know! My grandmother was initially brought up in Unett Street and Tower Street.