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21-12-2011, 02:02 PM
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A Birmingham Childhood Remembered

Oh deeply missed, you Bull Ring, miscellany of stalls,
A youth remembered, clutching coat hem, wide-eyed.
Wigs, salami, gaudy rings, old shoes, the raucous Brummie calls,
Bouncing off the walls.

“’ ’andy carrier!” Thickly yelled, and “Apples a pound pears!”
A language understood by all, a Midlands code in grey old Brum
Co-existent with the church
Cups of orange tea, chips, prayers.

The big red buses veering madly through the melee, blocking roads,
The smell of diesel, dripping raincoat, Hippodrome –
“One Night Only – Frankie Laine!”
Peered at through the rain.

Lewis’s with its rubber road and magical roof top gardens
Where Uncle Holly Christmas time dispensed largesse
Along with tiny Brummie elves
Playing themselves.

Further back again, the smog, a grey-green poison, part of play;
Where we would hide and breathe in death
And smell its fumes in muffled day.
And creep and grope our homeward way.
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21-12-2011, 05:47 PM
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It takes you back, thankyou Eccles.
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22-01-2012, 11:48 PM
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Thank you, Eccles.

I remember " 'Andy Carrier!" and the smells and the roofless Fish Market and the Big Top..........

Doesn't time fly?
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24-01-2012, 09:37 PM
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Ive only passed through Birmingham so don't really know it but those words so remind me of so much of my little world ...love it
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29-01-2012, 07:43 PM
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Just a thought has anyone been to see the play "Go play up your own end" a Birmingham childhood Solihull Arts complex 14/3/12 and town hall 21/3/12.
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29-01-2012, 07:45 PM
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Used to visit Lewis's as a child to see Father Christmas, had my picture taken there with a monkey I think see if I can find it...... I loved Lewis's.
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29-01-2012, 08:15 PM
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Yes, but I saw it a few years ago.
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08-04-2012, 07:56 PM
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when I left school in 1974, I acquired my first job a an apprentice at Geoffrey Richard jewellers in the old Great western Arcade, which was next to lewis's. how the city has changed. the arcade is wonderful. still worth a visit.
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08-04-2012, 09:14 PM
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We get the train in Hampton in Arden straight into Birmingham to go to a restaurant we call 'the secret chinese' and have their lunchtime buffet & its delicious. I love going there
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Is it the "Big wok" in the china quarter. I think it is the best chinese buffet restaurant yet.- just celebrated i think its 20th anniversary. to anyone who has not been, go. If its the one Cassie is refering to, its well worth the visit alone to Brum
 
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