Sure there is a thread for Mothers. I was a regular there. The last time I went was to see Pink Floyd - must have been about 1970. Can't imagine anything like it now can you. A band like Pink Floyd playing in a room above a furniture shop to about 100 people! My husband worked in the labs. He decided he didn't like college so stopped going. When they found out at Holden's they gave him the sack!
I also went to Mothers and the Carlton Ballroom, as it was known before and saw, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, and many more play above the furniture store, down the alley.
I think it was the Cavendish furniture store , next to the funeral home that took up the entire area that the two stores currently occupy.
Last time I was in the village (Erdington) was in 2004, there was a "dollar" store there at street level. It was sad when Mothers closed. It looks pretty sad out front now, as did high street in general. There is a blue plaque between the upstairs windows that commorates the club.
Most times, a bunch of us teens hung out and drank beer downstairs in the New Roebuck Cellar Bar in those days,stuffing the Wurlitzer Juke Box with money all night.
The original Old Roebuck was next to the church, set a way back off the High Street, pretty much directly across from the front entrance to Woolworths, which ran the length of Barnabas Road down to a glass store, opposite the old Erdington Market.
My mother in law worked at the Palace Cinema, down where Safeway was built on the opposite side to Littlewoods. My Mom was a Co-op shopper. I still remember her number 111064!
Circa 1970, I had a girlfriend Valerie Jones, who worked at the Pop In Restaurant in York Road at the Sutton New Road end.
A little later before I immigrated to Canada in '74, I drove night shift for Star Taxi in South Road off Reservoir Road and then we moved into York Road, directly opposite where the Pop In used to be at street level.
Thanks for reminding me of fond memories of days, never to be enjoyed by anyone in quite the same way again!
Then again, there was the Rum Runner on Canal Street and Barbarellas off Broad Street, Rebeccas, the Dolce Vita to name a few, but nothing ever again quite like Mothers!
We may not have had "Woodstock", but the night life in Brum was hard to beat, with so many great local bands headed for the big time in the '60s and early 70s.