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Couple of comments. Masshouse Circus, what a mess that was! Planned in the days when the car was meant to be 'king' and, of course, Birmingham was one the country's top 'motowns'. I read that had the planners had their way, even more of the city would have been dreadfully developed including the...

Can I clarify please Viv? The original Hostaria Wine Bar opened in the 1970s was on Hurst Street. Is the one shown in the photo above a successor which moved from Hurst Street when that site was developed to make way for the Arcadian Centre?

In those days they sure knew how to put up beautiful buildings with exquisite details such as this. Why do all new buildings, probably since the 1950s, look like so utterly dreadful? This is not what is taught at architectural schools. I know that the sort of details shown here is more...

Thanks. As Viv states, it looks about right. For the first seven years of my life we lived in Castleford Road which is just behind where the photo was taken between 1961 and 1968 so I should have recognised it though, at that age, you don't tend to look at the buildings. I do remember being...

Wonderful photo. I'm trying to work out exactly where this is on the Stratford Road this is? Is it looking towards Birmingham just after for Highgate and Walford Road, and the road off to the left is Stoney Lane (long closed off )? Please feel free to correct me.

What's amazing is that parking was possible in Central Birmingham in the early 1970s. I also remember seeing a video on YouTube about the opening of the Bull Ring in the early 1960s in which someone would park your car for you. A very different age in which so much of the old city was swept...

I will admit that I had to look at this a number of times. I walked past this four times a day on my way to and from Hall Green, then Bilateral, School (I went home for lunch) which I attended between 1972 and 1977 and had no memory of this builder's merchant. I remember getting off the 92 bus...

Thanks for this wonderful picture Steve. I have been going 'up town' for as long as I can remember but have no memory of a Lyons Tea Shop on New Street. Also it is in a unit that was part of the 'big top' development, so named because the site on which it was built after clearance due to second...

It's wonderful to see a picture, grainy as it may be, of Hosteria One which I went to a number of times after it first opened as my then girlfriend who'd heard about among friends in the sixth form. Hostaria was such an amazing place and thinking about being in there brings back happy memories...

What a wonderful photo. The expression "they don't make them like that anymore" couldn't be more appropriate. Though I joined a few years ago, I have more time and I'm working my way around the site and am interested in Longbridge as my dad (James who died in 2004) worked there in the foundry...

Thanks Michael. Hard to believe that in a year I will be the big 60. As I am absolutely certain everyone says, "Where did the years go?" What will Birmingham look like in another 50 years when even today's 'nippers' will be old-aged pensioners (assuming that the state pension still exists)!!!?

Going to clubs in Birmingham in from 1980 onwards the theme was disco, new romantic and the general electronic that was popular such as Human League, Depeche Mode and, though they'd been around for a while Kraftwerk. My parents probably hated me playing this sort of music at home though, to be...

Back then the idea of a small device that could make telephone calls, allow you to search the internet (yet to be invented) and take pictures would have seemed utterly amazing (I think that Tomorrow's World had suggested that this technology would eventually be possible) Maybe I'm getting old...

I'm coming into this later (but better than never!), so forgive me. I grew up as a teenager in Birmingham in the 1970s and used to pass many of the clubs that have been mentioned when I wandered around town whilst waiting for my mom who worked in the Coop restaurant in the basement of the...

I grew up down the road from there in the 1960s and can attest to the fact that you are absolutely correct; the same it surely ain't!

I'm a bit late into this thread but reading the posts is so evocative of my childhood and adolescent days. We lived in Castleford Road for most of the 1960s before moving to Acocks Green in 1968 then to Hall Green in 1970. The latter is important to mention because the no 32 was the bus I got...

My mum worked there as a waitress in the early 1970s. Sadly there are no sporting facilities in Hall Green following the closure of Moor Green football stadium many years ago; also to make way for housing. Sign of the times I guess but sad nonetheless.