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Not easy. Perhaps H Meary or H Miary. Dave.

Definitely Clementine Churchill on the far left in #115. According to the link in #117 Winston went that day to a factory that makes tanks and also to the Spitfire Works at Castle Bromwich. Still don't know the location of #115. Dave.

Winston Churchill visits Birmingham on September 26th 1941 to greet ARP workers. Not sure where the street is located. He is passing a building marked "Tyre Service". Photo and caption were seen in Chartwell, Kent today. Dave.

There was a farewell parade today, attended by the Countess of Wessex, in Dorking, Surrey for the staff of The Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. This national Centre at Headley Court has for many years treated injured servicemen and women who have had devastating combat injuries, both...

Found this raffle ticket from December 1963. It cost 1 shilling and was from the Birmingham and District Branch of the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). I don't think I've won as I would have received a phone call by now but the prizes were interesting. The...

Definitely right Jim. I left Birmingham in 1967 and up until then the 37 would go all along the Stratford Road terminating at the Birmingham boundary in Hall Green. It went past the Warwick Road at the Mermaid but did not join it. Dave.

I wonder how young you would have to be to see a hovercraft on your first visit to the seaside? Here is one taken yesterday at Southsea near Portsmouth. It is arriving after its 10 minute trip from the Isle of Wight. Dave.

Visited a part of the UK last weekend that I had not been to before. The visit included a ride on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, not far from Leeds, between Keighley and Haworth and back. Pulled on the return by an American steam engine, number 5820 of the United States of America...

Saw these three drums for sale today costing only £10 in total. They were in the corner of an Oxfam shop in Esher, Surrey. Made in Taiwan. Dave.

Post 5058 shows the Stratford Road, Hall Green, looking towards the Hall Green Parade. Cateswell Road is on the immediate right with the green van. Dave.

Further details on #41 theatres, and others in Birmingham, in the link below. Dave. https://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Birmingham.htm

At York Road School, Hall Green, we each had our photo taken for the Coronation. This was then inserted into a souvenir cardboard frame. Mine is below. The haircut was typical for the time, or was it just me? Dave.

Palmolive advert in #536 states at the bottom, "Dr. Dafoe says, Only gentle Palmolive for the Quins!". Dr. Allan Dafoe was a Canadian obstetrician best known for delivering and caring for the world-famous Dionne quintuplets, born May 28 1934. Dave.

I took these three photos at the Jamboree. I was only 14 at the time so apologise for the quality. Dave.

Hi Viv. In a book by John Marks entitled "Hall Green and Yardley Wood on old picture postcards" there is the same postcard of Shaftmoor Lane (your second photo) in #1. The caption reads, "Shaftmoor Farm, where Russell and Cateswell Roads are today. Once a home of the Greswolds family, it was...

Not sure that I would describe Joseph Chamberlain as "Infamous". He certainly did a lot for Birmingham. See below: Dave. Although not a Brummie by birth, he made the city his adopted home. The son of Unitarian parents, he built a profitable business manufacturing screws in the city but was...

A list of Birmingham Corporation Markets in 1929-30, from the official handbook of the City of Birmingham for that period. I think that Viv has covered them all in #2. The Gosta Green Open Market has a photograph in the thread "Gosta Green" #21. Dave.

Post 520 showed screen star Virginia Mayo advertising Lux Toilet Soap. In the 1951 advert below there is a less obvious choice of a school-boy stamp collector in the advert for Cussons famous toilet soap Imperial Leather. He is saying "Imperial--what?" so perhaps there is a play on the word...

The Royal Mail has just issued ten first-class stamps of "Classic Toys". These are: the Teddy Bear; Sindy Doll; Spirograph; Stickle Bricks; Toy Soldiers; Spacehopper; Fuzzy Felt; Meccano, Action Man; and Hornby Dublo train sets. I'm sure I had a teddy bear when I was very, very small and I know...

I was never a fan of chewing gum but here is an advert for Anglo-XL Chewing Gum, Halifax, in 1953. Dave.