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Great picture. Love the steam tram. Is the man with the suitcase, so busy watching the policeman before he opens it to sell its contents illegally, that he has not realised he is about to be exterminated by the tram!!! Every picture tells a story.

ChrisM, sorry, I can't remember, they were from all over the IMI 'empire', not just Witton. I was hoping someone on the picture was also on this forum. I'm on the right of the back row. Thr guy to the right of the pillar ran the course but I can't remember his name.

... and they tell me I was at the V.E. Day party in Bridge Street West as well. I'm sitting on my Mom's lap at the front of the third picture!!

I celebrated at Bridge Street West and have the certificate to prove it!!!

IMI Management course at Holdford House in 1970.

Handsworth Technical School class 5A December 1959.

Bridge Street West Coronation Party - I was there!!

Mike, unfortunately can't change the date the pictures were scanned. Rob

Lyn, The 1st A Birmingham Boys' Brigade is part of the People's Chapel and there are lots of old photos on Flickr and some show parades in Great King Street and the houses behind. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/1staboysbrigade/6347643925/in/set-72157628010762361 for one of them from 1958. Rob

On Google Maps Street View of canal bridge on Spring Hill 2011 you can see same wall and metal railings and the remains of the factory walls and windows on the opposite side of the road beyond the canal...

oldMohawk. I can also confirm the sandpit at 'A' on your aerial pictures as I have lived at the end of Harbeck Avenue - the cul-de-sac to the left of the 'A' - since 1967 and remember the sandpit at the end of my garden. This was before the houses on Blenheim Way, shown on the 2007 view, were...

Thanks Lyn. I had missed this thread. And thanks for all the pictures you post, they get the memory brain cells working again. Rob

Ah memories of Saturday Morning at the Villa Cross Cinema in the 1950s. "We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile. We come along on Saturday morning, knowing it is well worth while..." (shouted rather than sung) Roy Rogers; Flash Gordon; When it was your birthday...

Remember it well. The sink was a trough and I was at the drain end with all the other children's blood flowing infront of me!! No wonder I am terrified of dentists.

Have you all seen the picture posted on the Various street pictures thread #137. New Oscott College on the horizon.

Viv. It's New Oscott RC College. See all the pictures and recent info on the Kingstanding thread.

Was it the Birmingham Dispatch newspaper offices?

Ref Picture on #39. Barton Arms on left, so I think this is High Street from Six Ways Aston. Aston University in the distant mist. Construction of Perry Barr Expressway. Reynolds House under construction on right.

Yes Mike, I am sure the picture was taken from the doorway of the Star Inn. These are all great pictures and bring back many childhood memories of this area. Rob

It was the location of the block of flats - Hertford House (now demolished) - that made me think it was Well St not Gt King St. (And as a lad I used to ride my three wheeler bike round the Lucas factory - their slab pavements made a better sound than the bricks everywhere else!)