Recent content by carwriter1

I'm afraid photos back then are very hard to come by. Not like today when everyone with a cell phone (oops, sorry, I mean mobile phone. Apparently I also type with an American accent!) has a built-in camera at the ready. I've been desperately trying to find a picture of the old Artistes Club to...

Hello Everyone, Just want to mention that late last summer my eldest son and I spent a week in Birmingham so I could take him around and show him the city where his grandfather was born and raised and where I spent so many happy days in my youth. The city has changed so much that we spent a lot...

Yes, I did. Unfortunately the oldest copy of The Club Herald I have is from 1967, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help. But hopefully others will stumble across this site, as I did, and perhaps we'll get lucky with one or two of them.

Hi Lulu, Thank you so much for your response. Yes, I still live in America, but with very, very deep roots in England. Which explains, I suppose, why I prowl sites like Birmingham History and Old Ladywood.com and contribute to them if I can. On the Old Ladywood site I've actually posted a...

Hello Everyone, My name is Bruce Bennett. Claude Bennett, editor and publisher of “The Club Herald” - who was mentioned in Jean Barry’s post (#34) - was my grandfather. Although I was born and raised in America, my family made a number of trips back to England between 1967 through 1979, and...