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I painted the second of your photo's, steps going down with the lovely old handrail. I have just tried to upload some of my paintings. It all went well until I reviewed my posts and nothing has uploaded, help............. please!! Oops, it seems to have uploaded now.

The Theatre Royal brings back memories of The Student Prince, I was very young when Mom took me to see that show, it left such an impression on me. Later in my life my father in law would play his piano and sing to us, he found the Student Prince late in his life and he too loved it. I think we...

I found this after a Google search, it seems the Plaque is in the Library. www.bickenhillparishcouncil.org.uk/history/history.htmlBickenhill is an old Anglo Saxon settlement and its original name was ... Marston Green was originally part of the manor of Merestone, which was ... A Plaque...

Ok after 3................... The Rain in Spain stays mainly on the Plain

I had forgotten how much I love you guys!!! Where are ya?

There was a very small lock up shop in Witton Road, the second shop down from Norris Road, and it was full of books. No children's books but I used to go in and get books for Mom and I read them too. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. I used the huge library at the top of...

I have just reread this this thread, it brings home the suffering of young men, leaving their families many of them never coming home. 100 years ago the guns blazed in France and in every town and village people prayed for loved ones, hoping War would soon be over. After all when it started in...

This from The Long Long Trail Eyewitness: Mona Neale "I think it must have been about 1915 when wounded soldiers were first brought to Soho and Winson Green station, just...

Hello Chris, my mother's family lived in Hamstead and I do recall names that my Mother talked about. One was Browns Green and another Hamstead Hall, and I have a faint recollection of seeing Friary Road from the top of a bus, probably the 16A which took us from Handsworth Wood to Hamstead...

The photo of the ice cream queue in the Bullring is a cracker, I love it. The 'awnings' we called blinds, they were pulled down in the morning and put back when the shop closed, come rain or shine. If it rained and you were unlucky you could get soaked, because if the blinds sagged the water...

That is how I remember the Scot Arms. my family met there on Saturday night. In the summer my cousin and me would be given a bottle of vimto, yuk, and put out into the garden. I got to see inside many years later when it was packed, standing room only. In the 50's we had family visiting from...

If you put your question into the search engine for the Forum there was a discussion some years ago where the finding was Newhall Street from 1903 to 1915 I think it said. A members grandparent was the Registrar.

Looks good to me too. It is wonderful to see 'our' Phyllis given center stage. Just one thought, as Phyllis's nephew contacted the Forum, perhaps you might like to keep him up to speed Viv.

Nothing much to do so I thought I'd browse through some old stuff. The photo of the fence is exactly like the one I painted which was the original one, Ellbrown.

Good news indeedy. Phyllis will be smiling down on us. I too am happy to donate £50

1. Do we have Jim's OK to apply for the Plaque in the Forum's name. 2. Is anyone prepared to donate if by not doing so the civic Society says no to the application?

Little girls always wore hats, a sort of sailor hat. I think we had berret's. Did we Charlie? But anyway they didn't look as nice

Cracking photos, I love the Market Square Jim, think of all those lovely lamp posts that were scrapped. The horse trough would be snapped up today for the garden. I think Lodge Road is in Witton, I don't recall it ever looking like that though, maybe the are two.

We live a hop skip and a jump, as the crow flies, from Duxford and ocasionally a spit flies over the house, they are such beauties and one once gave us a wag of its wings as it flew over. During the war my mother worked at a small engineering factory where they they riveted the canopies ready...

Castings in bronze are a gold colour when newly cast, but bronze weathers so well. The 'Gilding' of the Golden Boys will just get dirtier and dirtier.