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    St Thomas Church Garretts Green

    hi tony, which house did you live in i lived at number 3 the only tony i can recall was tony harris, would that be you?
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    St Thomas Church Garretts Green

    Hi Phill, sorry to be pedantic here, but I lived as a youth 100 yards from the church in Markfiueld Road.. I just ggogled the church and thy are celebraring the 50th aniversary of the church in 2011. So it would date back as I thought to around 1961 www.st-toms.com Regards Geoff
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    St Thomas In The Moors Church Balsall Heath

    No it was way before 1969, I left the area in 1968 and sadly my dearest friend had had a funeral service in 1966. I'm pretty sure it was opened around 61-62
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    St Thomas Church Garretts Green

    I'm pretty sure that the 60's built church on Garrets Green Lane, Shekdon is called St Thomas
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    A drive around Birmingham in the 1950s

    Loved this, but please what was the song called and who sang it, so very haunting and probably appropriate
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    Can anyone tell mom the name of this shop?

    If it fronted New Street, It was deffinately Marchall and Snelgrove and is now the Brittania??? Hotel
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Silver Blades was the Ice Rink Above that was the heartbeat club and on the ground floor was the Bowling Alley. the entrance was a series of ranps from the bowling alley up to the Rink then up to the night club....I believe it is due or has re-opened
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    Pub on Stephenson St/Pallasades

    It was originally called the Gilded Cage and was an M & B pub. Don't recall when it closed, but it was a very rough establishment
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    The Parisian was st the bottom of canon Street, I was in there there night of the Pub Bombings
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    It became the Newt & Cucumber I think
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Youre absolutely correct, in fact Eddie owned 8 clubs altogether, hence the name of his last one Edwards Number 8. His Brother Don, together with Geoff Weston - Edwards owned Faces at five ways and the Revolution in Newhall Street, which was to become Polyannas, I managed The Revolution when it...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    would you be thinking of the Garry Owen club, which at one time was the Cavern club I think
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    It was below what was then the savoy casino at the bottom of hill street
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    Area bound by Temple Row Cherry St Corporation St Crooked Lane Bull St

    About my luck these days sadly!!!!!
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    Phrase meaning: Back of Rackhams

    I think you may not be amused by the phrase Back of Rackhams, I'm quite sure that this referred to the fact that it was the place to meet certain ladies of the night
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    was that the one near to the televison studios & alpha tower?
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    It was indeed called the Holy City Zoo, It was Managed by his brother Duncan. I was at the time Manager at the top rank suite and went to the opening night, drank champagne all night. It was always rumoured that the debt from the club was the reason Andy left Villa, don't know how true though in...
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    Metro Cammell Saltley

    Yes, I remember it well. Dennis was my late fathers best friend, they played bowls together and played cards on friday night in the front bar at the club, togwether with a guy called George Franklin who was a boxing promoter of some type. I personally worked for a short time in the Metro Scania...
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    Metro Cammell Saltley

    My father was also a wood machinist at the Met during the fifties, one of his best friends was Dennis Whale who worked in the print shop, he was in the railway part not the buses, he was a member of the social for many years after leaving there and going to work at Jaguar, he also played bowls...
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    Where is this

    without a doubt, opposite st martins, they were small booths, one of which I seem to recall mended false teeth, one was a flower stall
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