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Oh, I've just been having fun noticing all the "you can't get THERE from THERE the way that they went" and "driving along *there* and turning left just *there* puts you nowhere near where they then just pulled in to park" .. etc. Not important of course with the prime need being to visually...

Yes, for absolute-sure! I worked between two BCC offices for a few years in the 60s, one in Bush House and the other in Baskerville House, often spending half a day in one and the other half in the other just to keep the work in both of them moving forward rather than having one or the other...

I quickly believed it to be here .. what is now Station Road, Solihull, that soon connects with Warwick Road and others at a roundabout not much further down, perhaps earlier with a more direct connection...

Thank you so much for taking a look, Down Memory Lane, it was kind of you. I would have been very surprised to find it was otherwise, though more importantly the memories of which it was a part will always be around regardless, of course.

I've often wondered about GOC 5 on my late father's lovely Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane, a 2-door, 4-seat drophead of which I have fond memories of top-down trips here and there as a wide-eyed youngster across a few years until he decided it had to be replaced by something more practical. Much...

Such a sad thing to hear, he will be much missed.

Cheap? Oh I can hear the '60s marketing team right now ... "No, no, no, never 'cheap', it's Beauty on a Budget, there's a world of difference!"

That's just brought back to mind something differently-funny regarding noises from so long ago ... We lived for a short while in California - no, the one between Weoley Castle and Bartley Green, lol. One of my schoolfriends lived in Northfield which isn't all that far away, and at some point...

A number over the years, but by far the loveliest was a good while ago now in Newcastle Upon Tyne - sometime in the eighties I would guess. I was up there for a business meeting, stopping overnight and returning the following day. The hotel was central and very close to a theatre - in my memory...

A little more about those Harborne photos (post 1700 and a few following) ... The fairly sharp junction/merge of Greenfield Road and High Street up by Henry Wong in P1700 is right where the cars are lining up in the distance on P1701. If you compare the roofscape of the buildings on the right...

"... the shop would have been one of the sections on the left hand corner between section 11 to 3" Yep, exactly where I remember *mine*, and (brain-cells permitting) it's a toss-up between 11 and 1 in my mind with 11 a whisker in front

I remember what I suspect to have been the same shop premises right on that corner, but a little later around '64/5/6 and by then a Gentleman's Outfitter from where I bought some trousers that I noticed on a display model in the window one lunchtime. They turned out to be too long, but I was...

I believe that's the shop that was either a bike shop or maybe a second-hand shop around 1953/4, from where I had my first two-wheeler (that I was hardly ever off for the next many years!) It was quite an event, as by then I had outgrown my 3-wheeler Gresham Flyer (with an actual boot on the...

I haven't noticed this mentioned elsewhere, but plans have apparently been greenlit for a complex of 5 buildings (Hotel + 4) between 10 and 49 storeys ranged around a new public square off Holliday St. described as 'A significant public realm improvement'. A mix of uses but majoring on student...

So very sorry to hear this, Warren. I never met your father in person but we bumped in to each other a few times on various threads, and quickly I could see why he was highly regarded. I did not hear of the Forum's past problems and his wonderful rescue for some time, and since then I have...