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The so-called 'Hermit's Cave' in both Bluebell Wood, Handsworth Wood and Redhouse Park are ice houses or ice boxes. In Bluebell Wood there is actually two ice houses: one is a circular hole in the ground resembling a conventional brick-walled water well about two metres (2 yards) in diameter -...

Maria, you never stated if your grandfather was, not just a Catholic but heavens forbid, and Irish-Catholic! I'll take a punt and assume that he was. The only Catholics in Birmingham at that time were émigrés seeking work from Ireland (predominantly) , Scotland and Wales (and their descendants)...

I was at the Plaza, Rookery Road, Handsworth one Saturday night. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers headlined...or rather they would have, had not the police paid a visit and arrested some of the band for smoking spliffs (marijuana) on stage. The night was a washout as John Mayall and two of the...

The photograph appears to be the courtyard accessed from Hylton Street. The tall brick wall to the right hand backdrop are the buildings in Key Hill Drive and the smaller brick wall to the left of the photograph is the wall that forms the partial tunnel entry from Key Hill Drive through to...