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Apologies for going slightly off topic and for it not being Birmingham but you may be interested in this amazing local shop - Mr Umit is legendary in these parts... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/14/umit-mesut-cine-real-clapton-london-film-club

My parents only ever had a kettle for use on the gas stove, never an electric one.

I remember there used to be a Labour Exchange in that road but I don't know if Passports were ever issued in the same building?

From another Forum I follow... Apparently the pub has now been demolished :oops:

Seems like Staffordshire is the place for finding gold coins and treasures!

Well, it certainly sounds suspicious. Wouldn't be the first time that has happened!

Very sad / bad news :pensive:

I had heard of Packwood House - what a lovely place inside too!

Yes - we WhatsApp as it's free, unlike texting. You can do face on that but we hate it!

Sorry, I meant I messaged my sister on WhatsApp - she lives in Germany! The hairdressers was called June she said.

Castrite were at 13 - 15 Caroline Street.

Just WhatsApp her - she said June.

Yes, I remember there was too, Aldridge/College Roads end.

I think that Leicestershire and Northamptonshire were probably the biggest boot and shoe areas in the Midlands. A branch of my father's (Aston) ancestors were originally from the Northampton area and they were bootmakers.

Great building inside too - worth going to the annual end of year students show as you can have a look round.

My Nan used to have a beer at home delivery, it was a wooden crate which held 12 bottles - she lived in south Worcestershire but I guess it would have been from Davenports. She enjoyed a beer in the evening before she went to bed!

Not Birmingham specifically but I thought this was interesting, it's from a Dictionary of Typography by John Southward dated 1875 - some of the terms used in the trade are quite funny! https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/

The Trocadero is more the New Street end and still there - great old interiors.

There was a cellar bar in Temple Street - the end near St Phillips churchyard but I can't remember what it was called - this would be in the 90's. The entrance door was at the side of an alleyway between the sides of buildings. However I don't remember if it had a nautical theme - probably not...

I don't know about Birmingham now but 'breathing space' is not left between new flats in London now, in fact some of the space between older blocks is filled in with new blocks. Am I right in remembering that it was an actual requirement for a certain distance to be left between the 1960's...