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My father was on the team who made and installed the ventilation at the Gaumont, he took me in later years to visit. He also installed the ventilation at the Forum, he was well known at the time for falling from the internal dome, the scaffolding breaking his fall. Lucky for me or I wouldn't be...

Hi Nick, the Gate was on Icknield Street. If you turned right out of Hingeston Street it was up the road on the right, on the corner of Alfred's Place. It was a large gothic building with a turret on the corner of the building. It was built in 1888 and ceased trading in 1970 according to the...

Hi Nick, I'm not sure that they did, they were born in 1890 and where the attended school is a mystery. Their name was Keen. Grandad used to drink in the Gate at the time I visited them. He did use the Vine and the Grotto and others in his time but the Gate was where I sat on the fire escape...

An addition to my recollection, a couple of names came to mind, firstly Johnnie Marshall a Second World War fighter pilot, he was badly burned when his plane was hit, this didn't deter him from his duty. He was a real character, wonderful sense of humour which he displayed when round and about...

Hi Nick, thanks for that. My Grandparents lived at 1/78 Ellen Street I visited them many times and remember it very well. As you passed Ellen St on the right as you travelled down Hingeston St travelling toward Icknield St there was a shop on each corner. The first was I think Pat's shop as...

Hi Nick, still not sure, I'll have another look.

Hi, I've looked at photographs of Pat's shop on this site and they match this building. It was on the corner of Ellen Street and Hingeston Street

I remember this well, I used to walk past here with my Granddad, he was a bookies runner and used to take the clocks to Joey and Jim Smith the bookmakers who lived just up Monument Road.

Pat's shop

My brother manned the ambulance stationed at Ettington Road. The Station Officer was Spike Garner if my memory serves, he moved to College Road.

My brother was Assistant Manager at George Mason, the shop to the left of it was O&N Miles pet shop.

The Birchfield Cinema on the right, or the flea pit as we called it.

My Uncle Ben Keen lived ar 6/34 in 1939

The Woolpack was a proper old pub, I went in there a couple of times when my brother was at Henrietta St. I remember that there was a huge fight there once and it spilled over the road into the station. There were some ambulances at the General and control got them to go to Steelhouse Lane and...

Ok, I just knew I'd seen the building, it's very distinctive, thank you.

That looks like Slade Road?

My brother worked at Wrenson's on Kingstanding Road by Hawthorn Road. Looking at this photograph the layout was almost identical. His shop may have been wider. On the left were tins of biscuits at ground level, the coffee grinder was red as I remember, bacon slicer the same as this photo. He...

When I left the Royal Navy I went to the Highway as Assistant Manager to Ron Wagstaff and his wife Esther. I was there for a couple of years before taking on my own premises. Ron was ex RN and a great manager, he increased the trade substantially. The grill room was very busy and the function...

I ran the Boars Head for a while in the 80's after the manager was sacked. It was still a descent pub and restaurant, although it had a licence restriction, we had to close early on Fridays and Saturdays, this was requested by the police due to trouble occurring at weekends. We had door security...

The Old Royal gave way to the rear goods entrance to Rackhams. It was the only pub to have a doorman. There were more millionaires used it than anywhere else in Birmingham.