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I remember him. He was working on the roof of a house on the corner of Aylesbury Crescent and Warren Farm Road (opposite the GP's surgery). I was about eleven or twelve but even then I realised he had an amazing voice. I remember his mate's bungalow, It was on College Road (opposite Lucas's...

John Swallow travels on a bus from The Barton's Arms towards Perry Barr with a Birmingham City councillor...

The Parisian was an M&B pub. If you look at the photograph the M&B logo can be clearly seen to the left of the entrance. Eddie Fewtrell owned night clubs and wine bars in and around Birmingham. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-60382766 The Parisian became 'Cagney's' around...

Thanks for that, the picture on the right brought back some memories! Must go now, some dust seems to have settled in my eye...

You might be interested in this.... https://www.reelstreets.com/films/privilege/

Found some stills from this a while back...

This was my old school, St Chad's Junior. I left in 1968 when my house in Allesley Street was the subject of a Compulsory Purchase Order for the building of The Aston Expressway. The pavement behind the motor-cycle had quite a slope. It used to fill me with fear in winter it because it got iced...

Birmingham mid-Seventies, starts at 1m 40s

Birmingham 1970s

Knocking off time, 1984...

Kingston Row near entrance of The Longboat...

If you look to the left of me you can see the houses on the left. What you can't see is the Back to Backs in The Courts at the end of the entries. There were several families who lived in each court. Each court had a Wash House and a couple of outside toilets for the use of all the people who...

I lived at 15 Stratford Place, the entrance of was literally to the left of Mrs Crowe's shop, it took literally less than half a minute to leave my house and walk in her shop!

I remember travelling back home each evening on the 33 in the hot summer of 1976 along the Birchfield Road and looking enviously through the doors of The Bull's Head at the old blokes having a cold pint. Despite the all the windows and the bus doors being open, it was like travelling in a...