On 1st Nov 2025 10:42pm, Slim said:
I was being facetious Slim, sorry.
We didn't have a lot of money but then like many of us baby boomers we got by and I didn't want for much. I was happy enough with my Beano being delivered on a Thursday morning.On 1st Nov 2025 9:16pm, Positively Pottering said:
Are you sure it was you? I remember Happy who used to cause mayhem with his Sally Army uniform and white gloves, directing, nay, misdirecting the traffic in town until the police moved him on. He used to sit on the road-name sign at the junction of Foleshill Rd and Harnall Lane. He also used to wave his stick whilst hurling verbal abuse. One afternoon, I had to stop 'cos the lights were on red, and he hurled racist abuse at my apprentice who was in the passenger seat. Let's just say that my apprentices' parents came from overseas in the 50s, and the sons were all part of a famous boxing family in Coventry.
PS Positively Pottering, sounds like we had a similar upbringing. We were poor. Some kids were dragged up in poor areas, whereas we were drugged up. My mum's sister had married a rich husband, and lived in the posh Styvechale area. They had coffee mornings, Where we lived, every day it was a meths morning.
On 9th Oct 2024 7:38pm, Rob Orland said:
I'd have passed this way quite regularly throughout the 80s when I worked at the Spon Street GEC............
One of my memories of that street, though, was an old tramp who used to sit about halfway along, and shouted abuse at everyone passing by while waving his stick at them! I guess it made him happy.... it certainly made us smile!
That was me Rob, me Mum didn't have much money so she'd send me out looking like a tramp and I weren't allowed back home until I managed to beg 2 and a tanner.
