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I think it started to snow on boxing day 1963 and was still on the ground at easter. It ruined my first car an old 1939 wolsey, one morning it would not start, when I looked under the bonnet the core plugs were 2 inches from the block on the end of icicles. Most of the building trade was laid...

Does anyone remember the greengrocers on the corner of stoke st. and william st. it was called donkey georges if I remember right.

We moved from Ladywood to Kings Norton in 1956, used tokens for travelling back to St Thomas,s school for about a month until I got fixed up at Brandwood End school. I don,t think you had to be poor to get them every child who used a bus for school qualified for the tokens.

Holliday street ladywood, then posh kings norton (we thought in those days)

I was born in that area and lived there until I was 12. If you go to pubs of the past thread page 86 post 1705 there is a photo of the pub and shop which was at the bottom of the entry to your grans yard.

If that is Bath Row bridge then the line and canal run parallel to Communication Row and Holiday Street right down to the old goods yard at junction of suffolk st. and Holiday St. There was 3 train lines on different levels back in the 1950,s but I think the high level wasn,t used then. The...

Reading these posts makes me feel that I must be one of the oldest remaining pupils from Brandwood. I started there in 1955 just after the school opened and left aged 15 in 1959. I don,t recognise any of the teachers mentioned. The headmaster was mr Locker who lived quite local to the school and...

Often saw queues outside the West end in the 1950,s. It was on the corner of Holliday st. and Suffolk st. Great dance there on a Saturday lunchtime.

I went to st thomas,s school from 1949 until 1956. It was infant, junior and senior, it was on the corner of Bath Row and Granville St. opposite corner to the church, it moved down Cregoe St. and was called Lee Bank School or a similar name. My parents were due to get married at the church...

In the 1940s/50s I lived in Holliday street and the bridge that carries the canal between gas street and the mailbox was always known as 'under the gullet'by the locals, my sisters and I still use that expression when talking about that area

Thanks Rob that will keep me occupied for while.

I am surprised that there is not more posts about this important part of the history of Bimingham considering that at any one time 20,000 plus people worked there and probably 100,000 depended on it for business so it affected a lot of people in and around the city. I worked there for three...

Holloway Head ended at Granville street and became Bath row. The school did go up Bath row that far, the large house next to the school was used by the girls for learning household skills, if you walked up Chequers Walk I seem to remember halfway up an entrance into the school but was never...

Spot on with this info Andy and Lego, I started there in 1949 and left in 1956. It wasn,t only beanbags that came off that rooftop playground if we had any snow they threw as much as they could down on the boys (the girls used the roof and the boys were on the bottom playground) when we were in...

Thankyou Pedro, some old Birmingham charitable names lending a hand ,Cadbury,Tangye, Barrows.

There was a 'br' (as it was known as) in Kings Norton factory centre up till the 1970's and well used.

What was it pre 2nd world war, was it anything to do with orphanages or older orphans. My father spoke of it but would never go into detail and he was bought up in orphanages. Thankyou for any info.

I remember that hall it was part of my growing up in late 50's. It was used for private functions and it was a youth club on thursday nights. Some saturday nights a teenage dance was held there and one of the groups that played there was the unknown Rockinberries, they were very young lads back...

I first used the costermonger late 60,s friend of mine worked as barman (eric). It hadn,t been open long so it was quite posh very quiet.