West Bromwich, High Street 1963

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Hello, my name is Barbara Wearing (Nightingale). I had my first job at Robinsons bakery, I was 15, I felt so grown up. I came from Wednesbury but spent happy times at West Brom, I used to go to watch the Albion play, and they won the cup in 1968, I watched them parade down the high street, and a white horse stood on my foot. I want to pick your brains, does anyone remember Udalls in Pitt ...see more

Hello there, I was born at 53 THOMAS STREET,1943, my family go back to at least 1800 and were mostly butchers, lastly around 1900/1914 at 127 High Street. Joseph Gordon was head of family and was a Druid in the Earl Dartmouth Lodge no 537, he was Guardian and had a medal for long service presented in 1902, he had 5 sons, Charles, Albert, William, Joseph, Horace (KIA France 1916) and a daughter Florence. My last ...see more

I too loved Robinsons products, but my favourite was their glazed tea cakes, these were about five inches in diameter, and about one inch thick, and filled with cream. Even after we moved from the area, on our vists back home my mother-in-law would always have tea cakes waiting for us, what a shame they had to close.

Hello all, Joseph Howorth here. 1971 was a good year as I married my dear wife Linda (nee Grigg), we married in West Bromwich Registry Office on the High Street and next April 17th will be our 40th year together. We have three great children, Angela, Karen, and our son Antony and we have four lovely granddaughters, and in a few weeks Angela is about to give us our first grandson, we are ...see more