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Thanks, it was near the multi storey car park I remember which was to the left of the building but it must have been the other side near the High Street end of Bull Street?

I think it may have been this building - corner of Dale End and Priory Queensway?

Lovely old buildings!

I've heard that as well, I think I was told one of my Auntys had it done!

Five minutes of her dance style over the years :grinning: ....in those high heels as well!

I heard yesterday, was surprised about it as she seemed someone you could imagine would always be around somehow! I now understand she had various health problems in the last few years :pensive: She was a great artist and a real legend, RIP Tina.

I love your paintings, pleased you have been inspired to start again - sometimes it's good to have a break from things and then return with a fresh eye.

What a great collection of memories!

Brilliant - I know what they mean about trying to remember names!

It looks like Camara to me, interestingly there is a company with connections to Africa of that name and Wiki says ... The name 'Camara' comes from a west African Bantu dialect and means 'teacher' or 'one who teaches with experience'. Many people read it as 'Camera' and pronounce it as such...

Yes, two of my cousins were there at the same time as Steve Winwood, he was a bit younger than them but they remembered him as he played the piano.

There was both a ballroom and a cinema there. I went to a Saturday afternoon dance (soul music) at the West End, around 1965 I guess, it was a proper ballroom with a sprung floor. I think the buildings were demolished shortly after the photograph was taken.

Baron is a fairly common name within the Jewish community (e.g. the actor Sasha Baron Cohen), it originated from the Hebrew.... Exploring its deeper Hebrew roots, one uncovers Baron's ties to the Israeli name Bar-On, which means "son of strength." So it seems, Baron is an inheriter of potency...

@Hindsight Have you seen this? An unissued BBC live recording posted on the Birmingham Music Archive recently...

I had heard of it before but I wasn't sure what it was about.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day This from the Wiki is interesting... Events still take place at Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Marsh Gibbon in Buckinghamshire, Great Wishford in Wiltshire (when villagers...

Perry Barr was BIRchfield Great Barr was GRE

Thanks, that was interesting, particularly as I live in London now. There are still a few of the old exchange letter and number ones about, usually on ghost signs, I know of an SHO (Shoreditch) still on the back of an old building visable from the train. Possibly still a few in Birmingham?

Such a beautiful old building both inside and out, I love it. Thanks for the photos!

You are younger than me but I recognise some of those names, in particular Elizabeth Taylor as I seem to remember Miss Haste, the deputy head, making a comment regarding the actress of the same name. I think there was a Richard Burton at the boy's school around the same time too! I remember...

Poor lad :(