The only Thelma I ever knew was Thelma Barlow, you know, her off Coronation Street! I started my drinking career on Ansells mild in the Sheldon on Cranes Park Road, progressed to Bruno and Mild at the Wheatsheaf on Coventry Road and then refined my taste and discovered Ansells bitter and have been a bitter drinker ever since. In my teens I used to frequent the Brum Kavern Club in Wordsworth Road and there they served Ansells King Pin mild, surely the foulest brew ever devised by man if it was a man!