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The Longboat was on Cambrian Wharf, Kingston Row facing Cambrian Basin at the top of Farmer's Bridge locks. I believe that it was reincarnated as The Flapper some years ago.

Just got the winter 2013 edition of "Narrow Boat" magazine - there's an interesting 2 page spread on Happy Valley with some info. re. Goodrest Farm (later Croft). It would appear that all of the photographs that we have seen on these pages (and elsewhere on the forum) are from picture postcards...

My wife, who is from Yorkshire, calls it "Firey Jack" - I'm sure that my (Brummie) Mom and my Auntie used to call it "Black Jack" - but it must be the same stuff......agree about caution required when making a visit!

As you were......Ellbrown - you're right of course - its located at Sheepcote Street & St. Vincent Street - the BW sales blurb (PDF https://www.gvagrimley.co.uk/PreBuilt/Residential/Brouchers/Final%20Final%20And%20Bone%20Particulars.pdf ) describes the building itself as consisting of stabling...

Its on the junction of Sherbourne Street & Vincent Street - it was used for stabling for horses - that's why it is in the form of spiral ramp so the horses could be stabled on a number of levels.

The Roundhouse - what a fabulous idea! This place looks ideal! On Google Maps it says that there is a day nursery there - is this currently the case? But there's good access by road and by canal and an authentic bit of canal architecture to boot. Only conceiveable problem is the attitude of the...

Thoroughly agree, Jim. I take on board your point that ideally any museum should be right in the "thick of it" in the Gas St. area, but bound to be pricy! What about any of the (as yet) relatively undeveloped areas where original canalside buildings could be used? I'm thinking in terms of...

Thanks very much everyone - yes, it was the 56 we used to catch from Union Street (thanks again brumgum).

Just been looking at Horsencart's Fare Stages etc. thread - it got me thinking - when I was a child in the early 1960's living in Warstock we used to visit relatives who lived on Washwood Heath Road just opposite a pub (think it was the Swan, just down from Lime Tree Rd.). We used to go on the...

Re: the peaky blinders Have a look at this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10280181/Peaky-Blinders-gangsters-with-brains.html Looks very interesting....not too sure about the revisionist approach to the "Garrison", though.....

A good hour or so spent looking at these.....I cannot believe that so many of the slides were just thrown away! Thank goodness they were rescued for posterity (and for us all)!! Any more of them?

....and from me as well.......

Can't see the pictures....what am I doing wrong?

All is revealed HERE.....

And what about Sherwoods Motorcycles in Robin Hood Lane Hall Green? Used to sell Hondas, as I recall.

Both right - in the film "The Blue Lamp", Andy Mitchell was played by Jimmy Hanley and in the TV series "Dixon of Dock Green" it was Andy Crawford played by Peter Byrne. And did you know PC Dixon was named after George Dixon School in Brum? The Blue Lamp was produced by Michael Balcon, a former...

Hi Cookie - you are indeed correct - have a look here

My Mom still calls the dustbin a "miskin" and the bin-collectors "miskin men". Is the word still in common use in Brum? I understand it's a really old term dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, being used to describe a dung-heap as early as the 900s. "Miskin men" were night-soil collectors - not a...

And stop yer grizzelin' too....

This should be worth a look - it's an archive of old aerial photographs. Have fun. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch/advanced