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I worked at Lewis,s back in the sixties as a Saturday job. I started there in the food hall, but ended up driving a lift. I really can’t remember how I got the job. I was the only part timer on the lifts. It was a good place to work.

Another good pub mysteriously burnt to the ground.

Here's a couple of shots from Saltley. The one is a view of my Grandmother's shoe repair shop and timber yard. The next is a bit sad, but shows the community spirit and interest in those day. It is of my aunt's funeral leaving Saltley for Yardley cemetery. The next is a view up the Alum Rock...

In the mid sixties I had a Saturday job at Lewis's. I moved around different departments, but ended up as a lift attendant. I think that I was the only Saturday attendant. All of the others were full time. When I started on the lifts they put me on the staff and goods lift. It was the creakiest...

I know that this is an old post, but I thought it worthwhile replying, to put the record straight. I used to have a Saturday job at Lewis's. I started on the pork pie and sausage counter, and went on to the shellfish and sliced turkey counter. I then had a 'promotion' to the lifts. I can't...

Hi Smallheathboy. You are correct on every count. My uncle Tom did run the Saltley and Green Lane timber yards. When they closed he moved to Alum Rock Road; opposite the Capital; next to the railway bridge. Peter and Paul are still in Coleshill. They have a place that mainly sells sheds and...

Hi Baker Boy. We lived opposite Barnes. I was born above Strutts the chemist, next to Wallis's the greengrocer. I knew Mr Barnes. I used to buy Russian slices from. He was a really nice bloke, as they all were around there. I knew the Copes and the Wallis's very well, as I did most of the local...

These last few comments have bought back so many echoes from my past. I lived in a flat above Strutts the chemist, two doors down from Copes, and next door to Wallis's the Greengrocers. I knew the Copes and Wallis's very well. We were all part of a 'family', and used to socialise a lot. I...

The horse meat butcher's name was Hacket. Quite appropriate really. I can see his shop now. Enormous joints of meat, and the fat was yellow. He was located on the right-hand side of Washwood Heath Road, several shops down from the bank. Next to alley-way where the home-made sweet shop man used...

Just got back from a trip to Don Gilberts beloved Switzerland. I went on his school trip of 1960. I tried to visit as many of the same places that I could remember. We stayed just outside of Aeschi. On the school trip we stayed in the Hotel Blumlisalp. Unfortunatley it was demolished in...

Hi Miss Muffet. I used to live on the opposite corner of Gate Street, above Strutts the Chemist. We knew the people who worked at Darralls (I'm not sure of the spelling either) very well. There was Doreen and Thelma, and the manager was Mr Major. I can still smell the putty now.

pmc1947: We didn't have dining rooms in Saltley. They could have called it the Savoy Grill, but it would still have been a caff.

I know that I have posted this message somewhere on the site before, but seeing the picture of the No.8 at the terminus brings the memories back. There was a cafe next to the terminus clock where drivers went when they were a bit early and had to wait before clocking in to start the next leg of...

Hi Betty. You're right. There was a club called the Brum Cavern on Summer Lane. I never went in, but passed it on the way into town from the Ice Rink.

I thought that the club above the Surfside Stop was the Penthouse