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Viv .... love the photo. I believe that building is Brook Farm (on the old Brook Lane before it was re-directed), and not Sarehole Mill that was further downstream.

It appears that a Fire Station could be based in standard residential housing stock. Here's a photo of the Ravenhurst Street, Camp Hill Fire Station dated 1910. Credit WMFS Heritage Group.

Yes Eustace .... and Astro's brother is shown in the 1967 cricket team in Post #5 Photo #2 above.

castalla : no, sorry she didn't recall the family at 18 Pendeen.

jmadone : That sounds like my wife's Uncle Harry .... is your cousin's name Margaret ? If so, we know her well, and we'll be seeing her on Saturday.

Hi IvorP .... my mother-in-law (nee Shufflebottom) lived at 36 Pendeen, but moved out in 1949 to Prince of Wales Lane. She remembers your mother Hilda, brother Ronnie and sister Rita. She remembers your dad at the VE (or VJ) Day celebrations dressed as an Arab!

Here's a wider view of the same location dated c1946.

Here's a view of the old Highgate fire station dated c1910.

Here's an old photo showing that row of shops, but only a distant view of the shop you're interested in .... which is just before the first junction on the right (Formans Road). 724-726 was a branch of Woolworth's in my 1960's childhood days, and I went in there regularly.

Yes definitely Union Street .... here's an earlier view showing the Gabrielle Terry shop next to City Arcade.

Here's another photo of Acocks Green Station Road .... tagged 1956.

I think that 4 Snow Hill is the shop with the clock on the right of this photo tagged as c1912.

I don't have any information on Perry .... but, in case you haven't seen it, here's a Snow Hill photo from 1953 which I assume shows the shop you mention.

It's interesting that the 1915 class photo shows about 50 girls, and no boys. I wonder if children were divided into single-sex classes then ?

.... and here's a photo of a Sunday School group on an outing to Wicksteed Park in May 1960.

Hi Sparky Jen .... we must have seen each other at the church. I do recall Geoff Herickx. I wasn't a big churchgoer, but I did receive about 6 book rewards for regular attendance at the Sunday School, and I regularly attended the monthly Family Service for a few years. Great link to Richard...

Thanks for the Formans Road photo. It shows our local chip shop when I was a lad in the 1960s .... just a short walk through the "gulley" from my home in Thornhill Road.

A belated reply to #314 which showed a 1987 view of shops on the Stratford Road near the Showell Green Lane junction : The above post is taken from the "Sparkhill" thread, and probably explains the wrecked state of the rightmost buildings. Here's an old view of the same row of shops.

Here's another photo of Grove Farm, dated as 1896 .... with people who are presumably occupants or farm workers.

I think the building shown in #39 is Grove Farm .... located in Sparkhill, where Grove Road is now. Here's another photo, tagged with a date of 1895.