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Nostalgia: Cup winners reunited

I am enclosing a photograph of the football team Hockley Celtic – a team of young men living in the Hockley and Brookfields areas of the city – who won the Sunday/Monday Cup and League in 1949-50. Read

Nostalgia: Happy days in Sparkbrook

I read your article about Sparkbrook and it brought back many lovely memories, just like Duggie Dulson, because I remember him and his family. Read

It’s me and my mate Jerry Lee Lewis

It’s me and my mate Jerry Lee Read

A blast from the past!

I HAVE just received a copy of your nostalgia page dated February 22 sent by an old school friend, as I now live in Devon. Read

Made in Smethwick!

TODAY, Smethwick is just a town squeezed between Birmingham and the Black Country. Read

Do you remember Say Mama dance fall in Sutton Coldfield?

DO ANY Sunday Mercury readers remember the Say Mama dance hall in Sutton Coldfield? Read

Relive days of chocolate concrete and pink custard!

How we chuckled into our gruel ... Read

Our dad the secret Dambusters hero!

LARRY Curtis flew with the Dambusters and won two Distringuished Flying Crosses for his bravery. Read

We were the first teenagers says Birmingham generation

Today’s teenagers are rarely out of the news, but Jill Emburey, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, reckons her generation was the first to coin the word in the early 1950s. Here she recalls the birth of the ‘teenager’, growing up in Birmingham, shopping for records at Lewis’s and listening to the likes of Nat King Cole and Connie Francis. Jill went on to have a successful musical career herself, appearing on TV, and is pictured singing in her first band at the Tower Ballroom and at Butlins Skegness in 1953 with her boyfriend Don, who is now her husband. Read

Kings Heath Boys School reunion

Kevin Lewis, science technician at Kings Heath Boys School, is celebrating 40 years at the school by inviting past staff, pupils and partners to an informal reunion at Moseley Rugby Club, Yardley Wood Road, Billesley, Birmingham B13 0TP on Friday October 17, from 8pm. Read

Remembering when Birmingham was bombed

ON reading Maud Benton’s story about being tired during the war, I can vouch for what she said as I was on essential work at Morris Commercial, Adderley Park in Saltley, making parts for torpedoes, the tail end of which had to be accurate to one to two-thousandth of an inch. Read

Birmingham bombing letters to go under the auction

A SECRET archive of letters written by a Midland mum to her RAF son during the Birmingham Blitz has been uncovered in a junk shop. Read

Memories of Cadbury's Summer Camp

BOB Hughes sent in this fabulous photograph of the Cadbury’s summer camp. Read

Memories of Kingstanding, Birmingham

I WAS taken back years ago to when I was a child. I was born in New Spring Street and my nan lived at 4/52 Ellen Street, Brookfields. We left to go to Hatcham Road, Kingstanding when I was 12 months old. Read

Forgotten pictured that healed emotional wounds

I REMEMBER that day in 1947 as if it were yesterday because it was the only time we had ever had our photographs taken together. Read

My wartime on the farm

I JOINED the Women's Land Army in 1942, exchanging life in the hairdressing and beauty spa of Lewis's Ltd, Bull Street, Birmingham for general farming in Little Witley, near Worcester. Read

150 years of St Joseph's

ST JOSEPH'S School Reunion Group, in Nechells, Birmingham are holding their annual reunion on Sunday, July 20, at 2pm at Rocky Lane Junior School. Read

Anyone know Ernie Clark?

I AM seeking information from any relatives of the Clark family who had three children, Ernest, a daughter, and Lawrence. Read

From army to a lorry driver

WITH regards to the firm Wilkinson's, it takes me back to 1949 when I came out of the army. Read

Children of brum's back-to-back homes

IT'S hard to imagine that these scenes of squalor in the heart of Birmingham were captured little more than 40 years ago. Read

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