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Read about local memories and learn more about the history of the Midlands. history of the Midlands http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2009/01/03/made-in-smethwick-66331-22599177/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:34:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2009/01/03/made-in-smethwick-66331-22599177/ TODAY, Smethwick is just a town squeezed between Birmingham and the Black Country. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/12/20/do-you-remember-say-mama-dance-fall-in-sutton-coldfield-66331-22519707/ Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:59:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/12/20/do-you-remember-say-mama-dance-fall-in-sutton-coldfield-66331-22519707/ DO ANY Sunday Mercury readers remember the Say Mama dance hall in Sutton Coldfield? http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/11/08/relive-days-of-chocolate-concrete-and-pink-custard-93633-22211865/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:30:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/11/08/relive-days-of-chocolate-concrete-and-pink-custard-93633-22211865/ How we chuckled into our gruel ... http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/11/our-dad-the-secret-dambusters-hero-66331-22014364/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:46:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/11/our-dad-the-secret-dambusters-hero-66331-22014364/ LARRY Curtis flew with the Dambusters and won two Distringuished Flying Crosses for his bravery. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/11/we-were-the-first-teenagers-says-birmingham-generation-66331-22013553/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:36:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/11/we-were-the-first-teenagers-says-birmingham-generation-66331-22013553/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/06/kings-heath-boys-school-reunion-66331-21972803/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:38:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/10/06/kings-heath-boys-school-reunion-66331-21972803/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/09/29/remembering-when-birmingham-was-bombed-66331-21921190/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:48:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/09/29/remembering-when-birmingham-was-bombed-66331-21921190/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/09/15/birmingham-bombing-letters-to-go-under-the-auction-66331-21820224/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:01:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/09/15/birmingham-bombing-letters-to-go-under-the-auction-66331-21820224/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/08/13/memories-of-cadbury-s-summer-camp-66331-21524104/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:16:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/08/13/memories-of-cadbury-s-summer-camp-66331-21524104/ BOB Hughes sent in this fabulous photograph of the Cadbury’s summer camp. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/08/13/memories-of-kingstanding-birmingham-66331-21523839/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:44:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/08/13/memories-of-kingstanding-birmingham-66331-21523839/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/28/forgotten-pictured-that-healed-emotional-wounds-66331-21419636/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/28/forgotten-pictured-that-healed-emotional-wounds-66331-21419636/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/my-wartime-on-the-farm-66331-21309526/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:18:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/my-wartime-on-the-farm-66331-21309526/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/150-years-of-st-joseph-s-66331-21309506/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:14:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/150-years-of-st-joseph-s-66331-21309506/ 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. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/anyone-know-ernie-clark-66331-21309471/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:11:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/anyone-know-ernie-clark-66331-21309471/ I AM seeking information from any relatives of the Clark family who had three children, Ernest, a daughter, and Lawrence. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/from-army-to-a-lorry-driver-66331-21309458/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:04:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/09/from-army-to-a-lorry-driver-66331-21309458/ WITH regards to the firm Wilkinson's, it takes me back to 1949 when I came out of the army. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/01/children-of-brum-s-back-to-back-homes-66331-21207641/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:44:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/07/01/children-of-brum-s-back-to-back-homes-66331-21207641/ IT'S hard to imagine that these scenes of squalor in the heart of Birmingham were captured little more than 40 years ago. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/23/mike-on-his-bike-66331-21136995/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:13:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/23/mike-on-his-bike-66331-21136995/ RACING on two wheels has been in Mike Lawrence's veins for almost all of his life. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/best-birthday-present-66331-21094501/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:38:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/best-birthday-present-66331-21094501/ Here's a cup final story many footballers can only dream about. But for young Graham Arnold it came true. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/boy-who-went-on-to-play-for-england-66331-21094352/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:21:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/boy-who-went-on-to-play-for-england-66331-21094352/ ONE of the players in this school football team went on to play for England against Brazil. http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/fowl-play-in-birmingham-66331-21094214/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:13:00 GMT http://www.sundaymercury.net/lifestyle-news/nostalgia-history-midlands/2008/06/18/fowl-play-in-birmingham-66331-21094214/ IT'S the Bull Ring as it used to be.