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Hi Guys, As you will remember as kids we roamed the cut [ cannal ] and we would often see this old gentleman on our travels the Tramp, always laying down a sleep along the cannal as kids you always do that sort of thing which i now know in my mature life it...

Hi Guys i am researching a company by the above name its directors was A,E Millner, m, millner I have in my possession an invoice dated 1953 i beleive they could have been stock metal holders can anybody tell me if they ever worked there not i would be very much intrested o know what they...

Hi Guys what a transition that the water ways board and council have acheived over the years, i have just been scrolling over the photograghs over members have provided for us ,and then i went into memory lane thinking about the breath And lengh of the cannals we as kids used to trapp along...

Hi Mike And Maurice Firstly Mike, i hope you do not mind me down loading a map of the area of Alston st and the surrounding streets of how it was up until the 1960 before the start of the redevelopment of the area, Secondly . maurrice, for you here is the map of the...

Hi maurice firstly about furthers you mentionioned bout a DR and surgery well i did miss that off because it did mention on there business cards in 1905 i should have down loaded that picture of it, and secondly regarding the right...

Hi maurice i have a couple of old names from Alston street Named Apperly 110 Alston street ; Faultless 129 Alston street; Horton 117 Alston street ; Wormald 120 alston street ; Quinn 28 Grt Tindal street...

Hi Phil. IS is it possible to have abit of confusion here with cranemoor street nechells rather than cranemoor road nechells As i have cranemoor street nechells; which i have taken from directory book And its according to John Tomlinson, s Map of saltley in1760 crane moor was in saltley...

Hi John Many thanks john for that bit of info; as i never knew the name of his first name but that will be a start for me Inever knew or seen grand father stevens as kids we never asked questions or even gave it a thought All we ever heard...

Hi Bushbaby Sorry at the moment for i have mislead your picture i promised but abit of a consolation Here is a photo copy of a varity show they was puting on at the stour valley hotel as it was called And the...

Hi John nice pictures you have put up for us i hope you do not mind me asking the personal question the reason i am asking because i was going through some old magerzines of carl chinns last night And by coincidenes the story i was reading was...

Hi Banjo Yes ihave to agree with you he was a tight flint skinned guy but i will say he was honest as a day come, because i would not buy any think if he thought it was stolen and thats because of the police went to his shops Quite often...

And at the bottom of greenway street was a block of masionetts which was for the single moms and tennents whom was made homeless for none payment and evicted for arrears there was single parents and mature mothers with kids in that block, admittinly this was around the sixtys and the street was...

yes as they say it takes alsorts to make a world and a lepord never changes its spot

Hi James I would just like to comment on your grand father and grand mothers The Ashfords coal yard of Ladywood I for particular do recall them personaly and i can recall alot of other members of this long time site of yester years whom gave you stories of there business and i was for one...

Hi GUYS iF I can remember correctly way back in the fifty.s there was a recruitment offices for the NAVVY / RAF FORCES On the corner of small brook rinway just on the bend of holloway head and about two yards from the Albany Hotel it was a...

Hi Guys Ihave been spending time on this thread today it sure his a hard nut to crack for christmas i have been trying to zoom in on the walls of what appears to be a religious figure thats a possiblitity i say to myself Its clearly where the lorries are i presume its an...

Hi Sam Australia thats great news to hear of your finding of tommy and thank you for infoming us of it As i know it will be of intrest to our other boxing members on our forum as over the years we have covered the boxing world of brummie boxers and of the cauliflower club ofcurzon street of...

Hi curly you are quite correct its not the Chateau Impney i live right by it theres is no resembleness how old is the photo but as far as i know the chatea as done the motor shows and rallys from early years of at least 190OS

Hi ell Many thanks for giving us these great photograpghs you have take i used to go there many years ago as i only lived up the road from there and its nice to see how people have worked hard the grounds and cleaned it up and thinned some of it out to say but midly if its the right...

Hi Guys Dont forget if anybody remembers that many years ago there was a YMCA for single men more or less across the road from the Gothic and it covered the corner and aboth claytons music shop , thats why i think they moved out because of the down and out of druggs and trouble within them...