Alf Rogers
master brummie
Really appreciating your side-by-side comparison photos, Brummy Lad! Wonderful, thank you!
I thought it was 1965?The third picture showing the Palace advertises From Russia with Love which was advertised in February 1972.
What we call: “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” particularly photo 1.Erdington High Street..... Then & Now....
Photo 1 - My Great Grandparents outside their Central Cafe, from around 1906'ish.... Alongside what's there now... Ugh!
The cafe was originally next door to the Palace Theatre (later to become the Palace Cinema) on the High Street.
Photo 2 - Shows what replaced the 'Palace'.
Photo 3 - Is a mock-up to show where the cafe was in relation to the 'Palace'.