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Many out there would wish to be informed that the consumate BBC announcer and presenter Geoffrey Wheeler has died. What a voice and what a memory of the 1960shttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25560734

Here's the Cobden looking north towards the original corner Rackhams (out of view though). Bradford Passage is level to where the back of the bus is. The retail premises of Walter Austin in both pictures identifies thing more exactly

The stripes on the traffic lights were universal at one time on all roadside signs, standardized in the 1930's for 30 years and know as 'Worboys' pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_Kingdom With the least effective car headlights in earlier years it made is...

I think the geezer's the eagle-eyed lookout for a daring raid on the said premises, Mohawk. There must be at least one glass-valve 1932 Pye set in there. But watch out! The kiddy is going to walk right into the line of fire between Joe's gang and the Feds who are stuck on red on the other side...

i'm almost sure its a Fiat Multipla, Mohawk. Looks like what we used to call in the motor trade in the 1970s a 'brannnie' (ie brand new from the showroom) . It was a front-wheel drive rear engine thing I worked for FIAT trucks for a few years in the Brimingham area in the 1970s. We were...

Of course with picture No.3 (Upper Thomas Street), the irony has not gone un-noticed with Midlands Counties ice cream proudly sticking up out of an ice flow..

If you notice that Mr.Taylor is registered as a piano and gramophone emporium rather than bedroom supplies outfitter. Something to do with 'If music be the food of love........'? (I daren't mention Mr.Taylor's other registered trading activities.....)

https://www.francisfrith.com/kenilworth/photos/the-abbey-hotel-1892_30948/ Abbey Hotel seen above in its grandeur of earlier days and below the Abbey Fields scenery https://www.francisfrith.com/kenilworth/photos/abbey-fields-c1960_k5053/

It's lost its tower and flagpole now though, Viv. You've gotta have one of those to be proper Victorian! (Source: Raphael Tuck)

Post 48... On the left(facing away) Morris Oxford Austin A35 Austin Somerset Traveller? Ford Popular (or Prefect) Remoco van turning right=Austin or Commer Approaching: Fordson (It's all a tragic loss anyway...)

Show Hill a little later in its life (or death?) in exactly the same location as the left of the two pictures (above) The lowest entrance to the temporary NCP car park seen on the immediate right. Probably this was one of the smaller vehicle entrances to the former parcels section?

Bishop Ryder school in the 1960s. Hope it will be of interest to members https://www.mirrorpix.com/webgate/preview.php?UURL=86db86c53382d76ee0bca193ac02c5c8&IMGID=00487314

Girl on a Motorcycle had its national ABC release starting Sunday 13th October 1968. I have all the records for films 1966 to 1980. So the Birmingham presentation would have been in that week or close to. The cinema would have been the ABC Orient. From the AstonBrook/Aston Manor Birmingham...

Its the Navigation Street end of John Bright Street. The wooden fenced area became (in my time) the Scala Banqueting Suite, later to be a casino.

On the far left Mohawk, look you! The very first turban in Birmingham! The woman too.....having conveniently left her car there earlier. The very first 'park and ride' traffic project in the city. Either that, or the tram wouldn't have got up Hill Street carrying her!

It was, Stephen. All three of them, from 18 April 1965 to 6 July 1968. A certain Miss Alice Jackson allegedly 'did the ton' or six of them even by attending 600 times. Hmm. That's what I call obssessive:rolleyes:

Just noticed this today on The Web, whilst looking for something completely different. Claims to be 'busy London' , but we know better don't we?? https://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/694812/london-street-scene-1960s/ Quite a rare angle too, I would imagine This looks suspiciously like...

On another thread Mohawk, members were asked for the name of the horse and trap featured. Anyone here an idea of the carriage featured. The name Brougham springs to mind but wide of the mark maybe

From John Ball's recently-discovered website, this photo shows Gaskell and Chambers in relation to the ABC Coleshill Street and the Indian restaurant on the corner