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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

Mike on his bike

RACING on two wheels has been in Mike Lawrence's veins for almost all of his life.Read

Best birthday present

Here's a cup final story many footballers can only dream about. But for young Graham Arnold it came true.Read

Boy who went on to play for England

ONE of the players in this school football team went on to play for England against Brazil.Read

Fowl play in Birmingham

IT'S the Bull Ring as it used to be.Read

Fixing the road with just a shovel

WHEN they need to repair the roads these days, they bring in all the big machinery.Read

Fixing the road with just a shovel

WHEN they need to repair the roads these days, they bring in all the big machinery.Read

Suits you Big Bobby

They wouldn't get away with it in these politically correct days. And the health and safety mob would probably have a fit.Read

Lessons in a victorian Birmingham classroom

You can send your school and childhood memories to us at Mercury Nostalgia, Sunday Mercury, Weaman Street, Birmingham, B4 6AY. Or you can email to MercuryNostalgia@mrn.co.uk Read

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