Keith R

Great thread....just read the lot...Phew. Interested as the Wife's Mother used to say about an Uncle who was a Boxer but I havent been...

When I worked for HP Sauce as a driver in the 60s one of men that worked there was a journeyman boxer named Paul Brown. In December 1967...

here is a street view from 2020...

Hi Keith, The before was far from better, the original entrance was no wider than a entry between terraces, the booking office 'Hall'...

Yes that was my point....how did this cost millions and the before would probably have looked better....lol

keith if i have read your post correctly they did rebuild the station for the games...what you see now is the new station lyn

On the 1st map it says 2333...nowadays this is Kings Green Ave. I lived at the end and my garden border was the old wall of the...

Another Then and Now from Birmingham Post of 1978. New Street from the junction of Pinfold Street Compared to the early 1900s. Present...

£30+Million for this....saw it a few months ago and thought maybe they could have done the ststion up for the games whiole they were...

I drove past "the village" the other day - the bit in the middle of the road now looks like a scrap yard and I shudder to think what the...

I came across a reference to a workhouse in Kings Norton, it was before 1911, this is the date kings Norton was added into the boundary...

I think this is a new photo of the Bridge Inn pub in Monument Roa, though there have been others on the forum.

a sad loss...i love all of the programmes he was in and still watch them now.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxeg4q0rddo

hi keith..i take it you mean visit the library to use them up once your subs has run out ? this is only a guess but i would say...

I have the £13.99 option but wondered if I saved up my Newspaper searches I could visit Main Library in Brum once a month if it allowed...