Recent content by A Sparks

Happy Birthday!

Adams was in Corporation Square...

Yes, I was just wondering if it was an Advert for the company seeing as the photo isn't in Kitts Green.

Yes! I had just made a guess at that and searched for Cornercroft Ace Works, seems like their main address was in Coventry, I wondered if they had a branch in Birmingham but couldn't see anything.

I don't know if anyone can read the name on the building behind, it's not very clear - definitely something '...works (maybe Ace?) Might give a clue of the position?

In actual fact, we went by train! My Junior School was in Perry Barr, I can't remember now what station we went from.

We went on a trip to Chester and Rhyl on a day trip from my Junior School in the 60s. It must have been a standard thing for Birmingham schools!

I think the Kelly's Directories were held in the Birmingham Reference Library. I remember going in to the library when it was next to the Town Hall to have a look in ones for the Shropshire area to look up some ancestors, that would have been for some years ago but I imagine they held ones for...

I guess that's the starlings you're referring to? No, they disappeared from the City Centre years ago.

I know exactly what you mean! There are people just up the road in my area of London that feed the pigeons and seagulls every day, they really are a pest, especially the pigeons flying around near ground level.

I worked for them too, as a Saturday girl back in the 60s when they had two shops on the Soho Road in Handsworth. Of course, back then they were Mr Newport and Mr Green to me! I remember when they had the market stall in Priory Square afterwards, as you say, they were really nice guys. Sorry...

I wasn't quite sure where to put this article but it connects with this post on the new Bullring development. The artist's original sketchings of the bull have been found and are to be auctioned... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gw044zjqo

Yes, I think it's definitely in that area somewhere isn't it. I was guessing the Barbarella club bit, that was in Cumberland Street I think.

Gosh I don't really know. You're probably right, I was just making a guess!

The festival is running for the second year from 12th February... Birmingham Light Festival runs until 15 February, between 18:00-22:00 GMT, with 13 artworks across the city. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygdqje4d2o