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Got to throw a bit of me in here. Following a heap of early days gigs at the Ritz in Kings Heath and Mother's in Erdington I saw Rory Gallagher twice. Once at Kinetic Circus (supported by Nazareth) and once at the Pulse. Brilliant, but the best gigs of all had to be Jeff Beck twice. Odeon and...

Wow, just found this thread. I've still got my membership card for Mother's and, wait for it, John Mayall and Mick Taylors autographs. Anybody remember Canned Heat performing their first ever British gig? Pink Floyd recorded a side of their Umma Gumma there. Long live live music.

Hello folks, Bit of a late catch up from me here. Miss Windsor was my first form teacher. What a lovely gentle soul she was. I was only about 4 foot tall and a young 11 years old but she was always kind and considerate. Mr Cherry had the smoothest slicked back hair you could wish for. I think...

Brilliant, George Storer was our centre forward. Crikey, could he hit the ball sweet. If my memory serves me correct I think Mick Parsons was our manager. In later years I played for The Leopard against LF Roma. They had got a young kid on the wing. Very tasty lad who turned out to be George's...

I have stumbled onto this thread by pure luck. I managed to see John Mayall twice at Mother's. I paid 2shillings and 6pence to see Jethro Tull there. In much later years I saw Rory Gallagher and Nazareth at Kinetic Circus. Henry's Blues House was a starting point for many a good band but best...

Hello folks, here's one from my memory bank. Many, many years ago I was doing a bit of taxi work. I got a call to pick up a fare from (old) New Street station. Well to my surprise it was Richard Todd. He wanted taking to Noele Gordon's flat. Apparently the pair were really good friends and she...

Hello folks. Nothing of any great interest but I played for one of Tubes football teams as a guest(I must have been half decent). I think it was around 1972. The team was called LF Roma. What a side, top of the premier Division of the North Birmingham League. One thing I do remember was being...

Hello to you. I am probably way off the mark and this bit of info is totally irrelevant but we lived right on the top of Gunter Road where it met Chester Road from 1955 to 1970. My older brother had a mate who lived right in the patch you are describing. His name might mean something. His name...

Fair play to you Melvin, I worked at both Coleshill Hall and Chelmsley Hospitals. This picture looks like the view you would get at Chelmsley if you almost stood on the football pitch and looked up. It was literally behind the "Rec Hall". I worked on every one of the wards at both hospitals...

Well folks, I just couldn't help myself. In the nicest possible way this thread opened up so many nostalgic thoughts for me that I decided to embark on a personal "Bucket List". I grew up very close to Pype Hayes Park and even after we moved to the Bromford Estate I worked at Cadbury Schweppes...

Hiya, very new to this but spotted your post. The Golden Eagle was spot on. If my memory serves me right I think there was a "disco" there called the Shoop. But I will stand corrected if wrong. Another one chipping away at the fading memory is I am not sure if Queen didn't do bit at Bogart's...

Right on the button, that's the one. Seems horrible to be even posting about doesn't it. Good one for sourcing it. I think I'll stick to warmer memories from now on. Just shows though that nasty evillness can creep into the most innocent of places. Anyone remember the circus coming to the...

Haven't got much time at sec' but will try to find out (remember). But here's a couple of snippets that do spring to mind but will need verification. Both "culprits" were both thought to be surnamed Thornton. Both "victims" worked at the Hall. The young girl from our time was found lain down...

Here's another quick throwaway about the park. Anyone remember the pond? I had some long and happy hours around that pond. It even had various name parts, eg the Wall( full of lilly pads with the occasional jack pike laying in wait) and the Well( quite deep and great for perch). As a youngster...

I will write more as soon as, but briefly we lived very close to the park. It was surrounded by prefabs, Tyburn Monarchs played baseball there. Terrible sloping footie pitches over the back, we used to get changed for matches in the barn type buildings next to the hall. Does anybody remember the...