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Old Postcard I see from the old postcard of the opening of the university in 1909 that they were getting the Union Flag the wrong way up in those days.

Bermuda Club Judy, I can confirm that the Bermuda was raided, it happened when my wife was celebrating her birthday there many years ago, the police locked the doors and detained everyone, she tells me there were even dog handlers stopping anyone escaping through the toilets, happy days eh.

Di.Poppit I could not download Google Earth, it was my anti virus stopping it, my computer friend sorted it out.

Geograph Photos Judy39, Super website I have added it to my favorites.

Birmingham Trams The reason Crick Tram Museum have not got a Birmingham Tram is probably due to the fact that our trams were of a different gauge to the rest of the country and consequently would not run on their lines.

The Fountain Dollyferret, nice to see a photo of the Fountain, a pal of mine from the Navy, Spud Murphy used to run it in the early sixties.

Jewellery Quarter Here is a photo of my mother in law Rose Ford polishing at P H Bunting and one of her son Ken Ford on the press at Webbs, both sadly no longer with us.

Both my Gran and Great Gran are buried at Brandwood End, my wife and myself went to visit last year, and we both agreed what a lovely place it still is, sounds strange for a cemetery but thats what we felt.

City of Birmingham The City of Birmingham built in 1939 was a Princess Coronation Class loco, I did a lot of train spotting on New Street Station in the early fifties and the story was that these engines were too tall to come under the tunnel, now I think that was just school kid talk, but the...

Cinemas Don't forget the Carlton in Taunton Road Sparkbrook,to my knowledge it was the only cinema in Birmingham to have a lift, I visited the area many years later when it had been demolished and was amazed at how small the site was that it had occupied.