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’Ow do Maria, ar that’s a new one on me an’ all! As far as I know ‘up the Swannee’ means summut’s gone wrong or is bost, so I think when Arthur says it to mean his wife’s pregnant this might ’ave been deliberate on the part of the writers? After all his character en’t the sharpest razer in the...

Ta for the link to the pic of the blue plaque Ell, that’s an interesting site y’found, well worth a good ol’ mooch. I thought Lanchesters rang a bell – so they were the ones who made the first ‘motor car’ in England. I think I read about that when I was young, mind that’s going back a few...

Ar that’s it Alberta, the works were at Armourer Mills in Sparkbrook. Bostin’ to hear there’s a blue plaque there an’ all – wouldn’t mind see a snap of that sometime? See y’ve been looking at the same stuff I found about their armoured cars Mike, but did y’clock the bit about some of ’em being...

Ar Elmdon Airport, that’s what me ol’ man always called it, even after it became Birmingham International Airport. Actually looks like they dropped the ‘international’ back in 2010, and so it’s now called just Birmingham Airport – must’ve been napping as I missed that! Ah well, ne’er mind...

En’t it s’posed to be the Lanchester Motor Company? I could’ve sworn I saw a sign or summut as they began that part of the programme. Seems Lanchesters did make armoured cars an’ all, so it would be a credible storyline. Looks like they were bought up by the BSA, but not until 1930, and today...

’Ow do everyone, and many thanks for yet more bostin’ contributions. Glad to hear you liked the 1928 sales notice about the Black Bull Viv, and likewise it was interesting to learn about Joseph Priestley coming from Birstall. So Brummagem got him, and over a hundred and forty years later they...

Well blow me Viv! That’s a hell of a coincidence!! Ar I know the boozer is still there, mind I en’t been there yet! I think the Plough at Northorpe/Mirfield might be extant an’ all, though I dun’no about the Blacksmith’s Arms at Brownhill? In case you’re interested here’s a ‘notice of sale’...

Shouldn’t that have been ‘The Corporation’? In years gone by older Brummies always talked about ‘The Corporation’, so I think we’ll find that the ‘City Council’ is modern parlance. Me Nan worked for ‘The Corporation’, and me Dad always called it that an’ all. I’m pretty sure back in the 1920s...

Well me ol’ muckers what can I say? Some bostin’ replies here, full of crackin’ stuff. Ta for the pic of the ‘other’ Summer Hill Stores, or ‘The Stores’, over on Summer Hill Terrace Phil. Ar I had heard of this, and, like Astonian, was puzzled as to why the one in Ladywood had the same name...

’Ow do muckers – wondering if any of you good folk out there have any gen on an old boozer in Ladywood that one of me family ran? It was at 401 Monument Road and was run by Alfred Henry Causier. Here’s the entry from the 1901 census with Alfred as a “Publican”, along his family living there...