Recent content by Geoff Stollard

W.J.Whitall the builders were an old family company located just off Lancaster circus in Birmingham before the flyover was built. Michael Whittall became managing director taking over from his father and he ran the company for several years. I joined them whilst at Hall Green Tech 1966. After...

The bow window and the two doors were a treat in themselves. Don't know how my father coped with four of us looking for sweets each with less than sixpence to spend and wanting to agree and disagree on a variety of them. So much choice and shop always seemed crowded but always friendly.

Yes, High Street Solihull - at the T junction opposite the end of Poplar Road. Lovely place went in every Sunday after Sunday school around 1955 to get their BonBon chocolates - round balls coated in milk chocolate about the size of a threepenny bit.

There was lovely lively cafe down here on the left hand side going down from New Street where my father took me for lunch often as he always used it walking over from Newhall Street and having a good lunch every day. Surface was kept clean and I remember the stamp shop too expensive for me. Some...