Recent content by A Sparks

Yes, I remember that! Like you, I got wise and removed mine too.

That's the sort of thing my Dad would have said!

Sadly not - I did have some clothes from Bus Stop once. What I do still have is my Brownie Uniform!

My mother was in the Land Army and only wore a thick jumper, definitely no jacket or hat.

Great pictures!

There's going to be a musical! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-60031728

Brummies have always been cool :cool: it's only recently that other people have realised ;):blush:

No, I'm afraid not - I would have probably enjoyed it though, I like a bit of Kung Fu! I wonder if the showings at the Balsall Heath Road might have been for the benefit of the Chinese community, seeing as there is Chinese writing on the poster?

Happy Birthday! :grinning: Hope you're keeping well.

By chance, I have just found an actual photograph of Hyams in New Street, they were also in Oxford Street, London, Leeds and Wolverhampton. ....an advert here...

Sorry to hear about your friend.

I remember the tower block flats, there is another thread on Birchfield Road and I see that one of our members @Banjo once lived at 28 Birchfield Road - perhaps he can help?

I can't imagine they ever got to use those guns on the canal! I would guess, at most, the men would be more useful for fire watching, looking out for any incendiary devices falling at the back of factories.

The Electric Cinema is opening again on January 21st :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59936239

I've lived in London for 23 years and agree with Brumrocks, you don't hear a West Midlands accent very often. I was sitting outside with a coffee at a local city farm not long ago and happened to ask a guy, who I assumed was staff, a question about what some people were doing. After he'd told...