Recent content by John L

Birmingham Live shows the same photograph and claims that it is Brookvale Park (the 5th photograph in the link below): https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/gallery/youll-need-long-memory-remember-18764924 I wonder whether the photograph was taken on the far side corner of the...

Just a bit of background information to the first post. There were a few teams in the 50s & 60s and I remember them being popular at summer fairs and events held in Brum back in the 60s. Among the most well known teams were the West Midlands Police (see link below), Royal Artillery (Flying...

I've been watching bits of "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" and Ozzy's son Jack comes over as a chip off the old block, as well as a credit to his parents. At one point, he said about doing it “I know my dad would be like, ‘go and f*****g do it! (Not) moping and being sad that I’m not here.’...

I watched BBC local news last month and noted that the back to backs are to play a big part in a collaboration between the National Trust and BCU. The current exhibition seems to use the space in a way that it hasn't been utilised before (see first two links below) and this and an earlier...

That's a pity, I was able to read it without doing so.

Here's a link to something similar that they did 11 years ago. Like Lyn, I'm no longer quite agile enough to attempt the new tour myself, but it does sound a decent way to spend a couple of hours or so, for those members that are...

St Andrews, as it was back in 1955:

I guess that it shows ambition, but it is going to take an awful lot of "full houses" at sports and other events, to recoup all of the money that is being spent on building a new stadium from scratch. It has only been just over 30 years since they last did major work to improve the present one...

The cover has rather changed since the original in 1949:

We often had an evening at the Old Crown after work in 1982, 1983 and 1984 Lyn, we also went to a do upstairs around then. We had a meal at that restaurant over the road back around then too, although we were the only ones there at the time, it was a little early...

I think it was demolished sometime in the mid or late 80s Lyn and was replaced by the dreadful new build Crown & Cushion, that then became The African Village, which itself closed down after a fire, that had occurred shortly after planning permission had been rejected to build flats on it's car...

Some photographs taken back then (1-Corporation Street, 2-Needless Alley, 3-Holloway Circus, 4-New Street, 5-Gas Street Basin, 6- Gas Street):

From Wikki: The movie was produced by Kenneth Harper, who had produced Richard's first three starring vehicles in the early 1960s. It was announced for production by in May 1973 Nat Cohen of EMI films under the title Hot Property. Filming began on 4 June in Birmingham.

Such sad news. Chris wrote so well about Streetly and the Chester Road, on which he and his family had lived. I found his memories to be a fascinating read, as someone who has also spent many years living in that area. My thoughts are with his family and friends, including those on this site -...