A fantastic insight into the memories of West Bromwich as told through people from West Bromwich that will drift you back into the atmosphere of those times, some sad stories, some Happy stories, but stories that must be heard and kept alive
It covers talks about ...
The War Years, Anderson Shelters, Blackout, Rationing, Hipkins, Charlemont Schools at Wartime, Yanks in Dartmouth Square, Bombings
Working Days, Factories, Foundries, Metal Closures, Old Pop Bottle Tops, Edward Street, Steel works, Bagnalls, Nationalisation, Birmid, Wages, Buses, Roebuck Street, Swan Lane, Salters, Smith Corona, Stoney Lane, Greets Green Road Pitt Shafts,
Dancing And Enjoying Ourselves Dancing to live Bands (Joe Loss, Brian Pearsall) at The Adelphi, Roller Skating, The Gala Baths, Victor Sylvester at the Town Hall, Stells Brookes in the Arcade, Walking from Friar Park to Greets Green, Trows Ice cream Shop (A penny Dash), Bull Street,
Childhood Days, Paddling in the Brook, Football on The 'Rec', Ice on the Canal Basin, Fire Candles, Leap frog, Whip & Top, Boy Scouts, Street Games, Whitgreave Street, Stour Street, Crime & Punishment, Birch Lashing, The Local Bobby on the Beat, Illegal Betting and the 'Runners',
The Pictures, Penny Rush on Saturday, Zorro, Cowboys, The Tower Cinema, Plaza, Imperial, Queens, St Georges, Clifton at the Cross, Saturday Matinee, The 'Chuckers Out' at the Cinemas, Roy Rodgers, Flash Gordon, Posh Seats upstairs etc
Round And About Horses on the Milk Round on Beeches Road (The Posh End), Baker out of Bull Street, Ice cream, Dairy cows in Dartmouth Street, Oak Road Butchers, Tadpole fishing, Coal Man, 'os and cart, salt man, Rag & Bone Man with the Goldfish, Pigs in the Gardens, Trams, Bus at the Boundry, Bus Conductors,
PRICE £4.99...P+P £1.00 U.K, REST OF THE WORLD £1.90