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The Triangle Cinema, Gooch Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. 1955. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)

thanks pedro..i was not aware of this cinema... lyn

What a great story, and photo, from a more simple time, when expectations were limited to the real world, where people really cared!!

Mrs Bryan of Freeman Road must have had nerves of steel taking this little lot all the way to the Lickey's and back ! Bet the kids loved...

A 'Battle for Fuel show coach' at Snow Hill in 1943. I've seen another 'show coach' from, I think, the war years, but can't remember...

As I remember it, I loved old Northfield. Worked there as a boy, Army Cadets were there, went swimming there, and drank there when...

Turning into Church Road in Northfield from Beistol Road South before the "new" shopping centre was built. An older photo looking in...

You could contact the Royal Warwicks museum. They became the Royal Fusiliers in 1968 after amalgamation with other regiments. Info on...

somewhere in my memory s a dim recollection that there was a small pub, or bar down that Bradford Passage !!??

Opposite the Great Western Arcade southern entrance is the North Western Arcade entrance .... shown here in a 1956 photo with Bradford...

Interesting that there's a named business/unusual advertising banner above the first floor for a business in Cherry Street: "...... Co...

Yes Viv .... I think that sign relates to Wilkinson & Riddell who had a large warehouse with an entrance in Cherry Street, and...

I just want to say how pleased I am to see that people are still contributing to this forum I started many years ago. One small road in...

thanks goodness we still have it and it looks magnificent compered to the bland buildings either side and opposite...

I remember it too Paul. When I hear that sound today it takes me back to Town at dusk.