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Hi, Mikejee, Thanks for your information. I knew in the back of my mind that in the long-gone days of my youth, I had been doing some research of the area and concentrated on Adams Street because that was where I lived... I know that I had picked up the fact - probably from the Central...

GER22VAN - No. You don't have to stand corrected. You're quite correct. Adams Street did run from Heneage Street down to Great Lister Street. It's just my bad description of the location... Anyway, thanks for the confirmation regarding the previous name - "Brewery Street." But can you have...

Re: Nechells or was it Duddeston or Ashted ? Hi,GER22VAN, I have reason to believe that Adams Street - which is just off Great Lister Street and just below what was once Dartmouth Street - once had a previous name of Brewery Street. Do you have any information regarding this...

Annveitch : Yes, Ann, from your description, that sounds like my old workmates, alright. They were a good bunch to work with and I had some happy times during my labours at the Post and Mail. Later we moved over to Colmore Circus and with the advent of new technology we had even more...

Annveitch ; Hello! and welcome to the membership. Did you work in the pub just opposite Yates and our works entrance? I know that a few of my workmates used to make a habit of a quick snifter "over the road" during their break - but I wasn't with them: I liked my usual mug of "Rosy Lee" too...

Hi, Chrissy, I joined Heartlands only recently and was browsing through the posts when I came across yours and your reference to Adams Street and your Dad (F. Earp). I grew up in Adams Street and did know of "The Earps", who lived just below me, and I am almost certain that your Dad would...

Peter, I have sent you a post in the past - rather a long one, which ruminated for quite a length on Loxton Street Senior Boys. But I had only just become a member of Heartlands and was fumbling a bit with posting methods, so I think my post was lost in the maelstrom...! But in my post I...

Hi, Wally, Thanks for coming back to me. I guess you must have started Lokko at the Junior school, as we didn't have a female headm(aster!) when I was there. But it's nice to know we have something in common - good old Loxton Street...! Cheers, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)

GER22VAV: Hello again. I well remember popular "Daddy" Walker, the art teacher and talented pianist, whose renderings on the piano used to march us back to our classrooms after morning assembly. I also remember Mr. Martin, who used to teach geometry and woodwork. He wasn't quite so popular...

Bazzm: Thanks for the sentiment. In spite of your youth(!) please consider yourself a MATE of this other Loxtonian... Cheers, Jim

Re: Loxton St School

Thanks, John: I'm a comparatively new member and it was Bordesley Exile's posted initials - BHF - and his mention of a Pat Capewell that put a question mark above my head. Thanks again for the info. Cheers, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)

Hi, Bordesley Exile: I have just glanced at your posted list of Historical Societies. Although you say that BHF is not on it, I am confused by the fact that there is a "Heartlands Historical Society" listed... On the list it is qouted as being under the honarary secretaryship of a Miss Pat...

Hi, Jean: I celebrated my eightieth birthday a couple of weeks ago and I still have my school (Loxton St. Snr. Boys) leaving certificate. But it is in the loft and at the moment and I am in no fit state to climb up there to get it and post it...! What I can tell you is that, although my first...

Chucka, I am a Birmingham Post & Mail (Newspaper Publishers not he Royal Mail!) pensioner. The works entrance at the time was in Cannon Street. Yates' Wine Lodge was a couple of doors up from our works entrance. But that was a few years ago - long before the 'Mail' moved over to Colmore...

Hi, Phil, As far as I know "The Raven" was just an "ordinary" pub for the benefit of mostly Englishmen, but I don't doubt that Irishmen would have been welcome... JIm Pedley (pedlarman)

Hi, Phil, It just occurs to me that, since your parents liked "The Raven" so much my Dad - as the barman - probably had a hand in serving them...! Regards, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)

Hi, Phil, It just occurs to me that, since your parents liked "The Raven" so much my Dad - as the barman - probably had a hand in serving them...! Regards, Jim Pedley (pedlarman)

Dear GER22VAN, I have just sent a congratulatory post to pmc1947, because it appears that his info is more reliable than mine...! I was going to suggest to you that "The Dartmouth Arms" of 1890 and 1940 could have been renamed, as time went by, as "The Sun..." But, both I and my "verifier"...

Dear PMC1947, Congrats...! Your memory is obviously better that my 80-year-old one...! I have just checked with the "verifier" of the pub name (The Sun) and they have apologised profusely and underline your contention that it was "The Dartmouth Arms" that sat on the corner of Dartmouth...