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Lyn, I don't want to interfere but I think Betholem Row was the one in Edgbaston by the Jewish cemetery. There is a picture on the Birmingham Libraries website and the description is as follows: Date:1830 - 1890 (c.) Description:Betholom Row translates as "City of the dead". It was a...

Hi Deltics, You brought back memories for me with your post. Although my dad went to your school (long time before you) it's isn't that which jogged my memory. It was your mention of the 3 comics. Dad always went to the Greyhound in Court Lane on a Sunday morning and very often brought back...

Amazing how many girls are wearing swimming caps oM. I remember mine so well. It didn't keep my hair dry, merely pulled my face uncomfortably to the sides and then squeaked and pulled my hair (which was very long) when I took it off leaving me with an all pervading smell of rubber. Not a success...

Carliol, most of the postcards like this were printed at the beginning of the 20th century but I don't have a definite date.

Much better Mike, thank you. The railings on the right hand side appear in the bottom left hand corner of the picture in Post #4.

I 'ummed and 'aahd where to post this picture as although it's of very poor quality it does show properties on the right which I haven't seen before. I'd be grateful if any of our photo-wizards could work their magic please. There is a block of 1960's maisonettes there now and properties are...

Thank you for those wonderful pictures Two. We were only saying this morning what a sad place Sutton parade is now. With BHS, M & S and Laura Ashley going, to name but a few, it feels like a ghost town. If only they'd had the sense to leave a few shops for independent retailers so that there was...

on a separate note I notice you are interested in the family surname of Hiley. my very best friend since 1953 ish is Christopher Hiley. His mother and my mother best friends and worked together at Feasterstone Nursery Erdington which was attached to the grounds of the Orphans Cottage Homes which...

We've had cause to look at London Prentice Street just lately and I was really pleased to find these photos and this thread brought to the top. The family that we've been looking at lived there in the 1700's. possibly not long after the houses were built. Looking at the pictures these properties...

We always called it Eric's - I think that was the name of the man who ran it. It was down a driveway to the right of the Conservative Club. We always went on a Friday night and I remember walking there and back home during the winter of 1962/3. Funnily enough I can't remember why we all stopped...

I thought it said 'Jewellery' too.

How lovely Viv! I've only just spotted that you had two granddaughters and now you have three. Congratulations all round.

That's so sad Jackie. I listen to Dean Robert from Canterbury Cathedral every morning (The Garden Congregation) and he has had to keep all the cathedral birds (chickens, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl etc.) in large cages due to the avian flu. I wonder how many birds have been lost due to this...

For many years I had a mixing bowl just like this. I don't think it was a family item, maybe got it from a jumble sale. I used it for all sorts of cooking when the family were at home and wine making more recently until it developed a large crack and became crazed. How I miss it though. I now...

Izzy, This looks very much like the key to our church which was built in 1857. I wonder if the door this unlocks is still there or if indeed the building is still standing?

Not sure it's been mentioned before but the name Bandywood always puzzled me until I read the history of New Oscott College. Apparently the students would go up to the woods to play a game of 'bandy' between the trees, hence Bandywoods. It was a particularly vicious team sport akin to hockey but...

You can't wear a hat with a beehive! Our school berets were always attached, flat, to the back of our backcombed heads until we were reprimanded.

I still use my Nan's apple corer which I remember her using when I was little. Mom had it for years and now it's still really useful for making baked apples filled with raisins and brown sugar or honey. Sometimes if the apples are quite hard I have to bash it with a rolling pin to get it through.

I went to the library in Birmingham yesterday and wished I had worn a hat. Unfortunately I don't have the face for a hat but even that being the case I will definitely wear one next time. The winds between the high blocks and the lack of sunshine make it a very cold place. Bring back the hat!

Many thanks Gentlemen, lots to ponder on there.