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I worked at Wesleyan & General in Steelhouse Lane from '58 to '61,so I only had to nip across the Old Square,used to get about 50 minutes of jiving in !! :friendly_wink: (Oops,off topic!)

I remember it as the "Casino" in the late 50's,used to go there on Monday evenings for "Rock 'n Roll" nights,oh and at lunchtimes too !

This is from Street View

Thanks very much for this much larger picture Lyn,the detail is so much better,I will copy it and email it to my friend,she will be really chuffed !!! Mick :biggrin:

I'm really pleased to see this great pic. of the "Brit"..Some friends of mine ran it from 1957 to 1960,I'm still in touch with their daughter and she will be thrilled to see this picture,so many thanks for uploading it again !

The building is still there,with a bit of a facelift !

How's this ?

Here's one of my favourites from May 2nd 1953,a famous FA Cup Final day,when Blackpool beat Bolton 4-3..It was also my brother's Wedding Day,his wife came from Bolton !

This is a picture of 390 Church Road,Yardley,it looks very much like the building in the background. When I was a teenager in the 50's it was a cafe,but many years earlier it had been a pub.but I don't know the name.

I think it's been known as "The Bull Ring Tavern" since the 70's,but it will always be "The Talbot" to me !

I like the last picture,delivering to the Talbot,Digbeth (Bull Ring Tavern now)...I was cellarman there around then :peaceful:

"The Jungle" coffee bar was owned by Len Diamond,a mens outfitter...He turned the front section of the shop and the cellar into a coffee bar around 1957,but retained the rear half of the shop as a trendy mens tailoring department.

Ah,I remember the shoe repair shop well,run by Mr. Hill and his son Ray,,,,,that was a long time ago !

Me too !

I guess that's why this building is called "Hospital Farm"

Here's a picture of Bedders from the early 50's with the circus coming to town !

Some years ago I bought a TV from this Dixons shop. I had to drive my car into the tunnel entrance at the High Street/Bull Street junction to get to their pick up point underneath the shop.There seemed to be a lot of other tunnels running off this one,fascinating !

I drove a Karrier Bantam for "Corona Pop" in the early 60's ! :biggrin:

Here's the factory being built.....https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/misc_bsa&singer179.htm

Good to see the Singer factory again,I lived in the road opposite this for the first 21 years of my life !