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I visited the London Canal Museum at the back of King's Cross Station this week for Heritage week which was interesting. The building is next to a canal Wharf and was originally for ice storage, the ice was shipped over from Scandinavia and stored in a large basement area. There was a display...

The Jug of Punch folk club was in a back room of Digbeth Civic Hall during the late 60s. Post #12 on this thread on the Forum mentions Paul Simon playing there but no details. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/digbeth-institute-civic-hall.29258/

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day :party:

I liked the milk actually, I often helped myself to a second bottle at lunchtime if there were still some in the crates by the hallway downstairs!

No, I don't remember any milk bottles with cardboard tops from my school days.

Seen this morning in the Birmingham BBC website, I wasn't quite sure where to post this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v4z57qg7no

Yes, very interesting, many things I didn't know!

Kay Westworths was a shop that sold musical instruments, I think there were a few branches, one in Cannon Street.

I know of a couple of recreation grounds/little park areas near churches in my London Borough where the graves have been left intact under the grass and the grave stones have been moved to stand against walls around the perimeter quite a long time ago.

Fleetwood Mac, the original band with Peter Green, certainly played in the area at Le Metro club in Livery Street back in the 60s, my friend and I saw them there at the Blues night they had mid week.

Interesting! Margaret was in the same year as me. I knew she was a Birchfield Harrier. Some of us met up for a meal in Sutton Coldfield back in the 70s and Margaret had us in stitches telling us how she had, by chance, met up with Mrs Cockbain (in a GP surgery I think it was) and Mrs C invited...

A video on the BBC Birmingham website this morning... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0jld616yzwo

An article from the BBC Birmingham website today... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge3gge10zo

I don't answer either, my thoughts are that if it's important they will leave a voice mail message or text.

Some comments on a FB page, Great Barr Past and Present... According to the 1851 Census a John Stubbs (born 1800) lived there with his wife Amelia F Stubbs (born 1789) together with three servants. John's occupation is down as a surgeon, own general practice, whether the practice was at the...