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......or Boulton Road -near Soho Road Junction. please. My grandparents lived at no 3, from early 1900's to 1960's when the house was demolished. Prior to the war the living room was my granddad's shoe repair business. Mom had to run up to Winson Green prison in her lunch break with a bag of...

'Cool' Gary became one of the owners of Sloopy's and Mothers.

Wednesday lunch times was my time at the Casino - around 1955-56. but it was rock and roll then.

Hi anvil man You might be interested in a blog from another forum. https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4119.0

Sorry I got my forums mixed up. Still photos would be welcome. Thinking about the Embassy bop club I think it was next to the Plough and Harrow pub on at the top of Chapel Lane ;- near the Oak Cinema.

Since this is the Photos and Video Forum I wonder if anyone has inside photos of any of these clubs to contribute.

Roysteve I remember the Sunday Mercury did a centre page spread of photos of the Embassy Club. This was in the days of zoot suits about 1952-53.

I thought i would mention the Upstairs Club which was over the Old Stone Cross in Dale End. It only lasted about 18 months but was packed every week. It opened with Ken Rattenbury's band who had a weekly TV spot at the time. Ken Ingram also played there along wth the Blyth River Stompers and the...

My grandmother lived in Boulton Road near the junction with Soho Road from about 1900 until 1960's when the houses were demolished. If anyone has a photo of the houses near the junction it would be very much appreciated.

I can still picture dad standing at the sink (1940s & 50s) stripped to the waist, braces hanging down shaving with a cut throat - he always used one. During the first World War a fellow soldier asked him for a shave but unfortunately the guy moved and received a terrible cut -"filling a fire...

Hi Emma You mention that your husband's grandfather lived around Edgbaston. You might find the book 'Balsall Heath: A History' by Valerie M Hart, of interest. In it she writes (page58) "Sport in general was a popular form of relaxation and especially favoured was cricket. The Pickwick Club...

As another great Birmingham Jazz and Blues Festival draws to a close I think Jim Simpson should get a star for organising them for the past 26th years.

Hi Elizabeth Could you be thinking of the American camp on the Bristol Road at Edgbaston - near Eastern Road. I always thought their wooden huts looked like a prison camp when i rode by on the tram.

As Wendy says the Casino was where the Priory Queensway is now. The Springfield was on Springfield Road and wasn't a studio.It was upstairs and a dancehall like the Ritz. The studio opposite the mermaid may have been Alex. I don't know.

hi ann It sounds like you and I went to the same places. but Laura Dixons was over Chetwyns (if you meen the one in Station Street). Could the one you called Alex's be the Springfield? I used to love the Casino on a Wednesday lunchtimes but the best of all was the Ritz. We were so lucky to have...

Hi Wendy I didn't take these photos. I don't know who did. My wife came across them in a family album and I would imagine they were taken about 1960. We think there should be another one but can't find it.

and here is a couple of photos of the Snow Hill pie stand.

Stitcher. you are quite right. The pie stand by the Albany was Alex Fleur de Lys. The stand in front of Snow Hill was not. It was in the ownership of my wife's family throughout the 1950's and 1960's.

Calling all Birmingham GPO Telephonists All Birmingham Telephone Exchanges Reunion 2010 Saturday April 24 2010 @ Tally Ho, Pershore Road. 3.00pm to 9.00pm Cost £12.00 inc. buffet. State if vegetarian. If interested please pay by end of February. Please pass this information on - the more the...

Thanks jennyann, I've looked at 'Friends' without any luck. Thanks anyway