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I remember working on the construction of the Broadway Buildings, just peeping out from the left hand side of the second picture above, installing mechanical services. It was supposed to a 'Prestige Office Block.' Not a very nice job and before any windows were installed, and boy was it cold on...

Yep! I worked there for a short time during the construction phase of the Paintshop for the Jaguar line in 1977 and again about 1979. Quite an impressive feat turning an old spitfire aircraft hanger into a two storey building.

I worked on the construction of the SD1 paintshop in 1974/75. Only finished my apprenticeship a couple of years before but lacked site experience on the welding side. So they threw me in the deep end and got me welding up the undertank sections of the spray booths at high level on the ground...

I thought that it was decided that the view in #87 looking in the direction of Olten, with Station Road on the left just past the lamp post. The photograph would have been taken in the position of #94 but looking 180 degrees the opposite way Dave

Looking at the posts #1 & #8 it goes to show how a magnificent building can be desecrated in such a short space of time in the name of fashion. Dave

My mother used to clean for a man on the corner of Kyotts Lake Road and Grafton Road. While growing up I always wondered where they find such exotic names like Kyotts Lake Road, Kyrwicks Lane and Erasmus Road.

The post at #5 was the Shakespeare that I remember, although it was a bit grotty due to the road grime that got thrown at it as traffic trundled through the Ferodo bridge. Most of that area was my playground in the mid- late fifties. Trams had gone by then and I have no memory of the tracks...

I must agree with Kenfox. I lived in Sparkbrook from 1954/55 and I had never heard of Bomb pecks until I started reading this site. There were plenty of bomb sites around but we were always forbidden from playing on them due to unexploded bombs, but who could resisted a dumped old car with all...

The Black Horse regardant (looking backwards) device dates from 1677 when Humphrey Stokes, who was a goldsmith & banker, adopted it for his shop. The business later became part of Barnett, Hoares & Co. Lloyds took over that bank in 1884 and traded 'At The Sign of the Black Horse'

Doubt if I would walk down that road now. Thanks for the views & info Steven & RobT & Steve for the showing the original picture. Also a big thanks to Janice, without whom I would have missed that view altogether. It doesn't go unmissed Janice how much work you put into the Forum deciphering...

Was the cafe a little further down Station Road from Mrs Bennetts, on the same side?

The little shop that you refer to StevenMc, did it used to have small packets of world stamps pinned to the entrance door? I bought most of my stamp collection from a shop on that side of the road. Paynes shoe repairers should have rung a bell with me as I lived in Acocks Green from about 1964...

Excellent links provided by RobT & Spargone! I shall be spending my cold winter nights ploughing through the memories that they provide. I spent the first 15 years of my working life as a contractor within the motor industry at most of the car factories in the Midlands as well as Ford factories...

Spot on Daithelife! No matter what part oi the UK I am in I ALWAYS get picked up on that pronunciation! And I have lived in Wales for the last fourty years. Dave

Looking on Google maps Rowton House appears to be a hotel now. Highgate Park next to it was was one of the parks in the area that I used to play in the late 50's, early 60's. The ornate design & turrets on that building used to fascinate me. I thought they looked like the old 'Scotland Yard' in...

There has always been an very eager wait for censuses to be released. 1911 release was great because I actually got to see where some actual living people resided and with whom. I have been doing my tree since 2004 and during down times in collections taken on associated relatives trees and...

I also used to go to the Alhambra House on the Moseley Road on a Saturday morning to watch the ABC Matinee's, and Highgate Park was the best park around there with its manicured bowling green and its trim flower beds. The only thing that was frustrating was all the 'Keep Off The Grass' signs...

This thread brings back some memories. I lived in a back house in Auckland Road for 10 years from about 1954 to about 1964. Our garden was the bottom of the bank to the railway line. Don't know about the smell of the steam but they were noisy! Especially when they were stationary at the signal...

That view of the Piccadilly Cinema was exactly as I remembered it. Went to see many films there at the time and was the place that the whole of Golden Hillock Secondary Boys school was marched down to to watch a selection of short films/cartoons as a Christmas treat before we broke up for the...

Brummy-lad that photograph in #50 takes me back to when me & my brother used to have ours baths, always in front of the Parkray. She used to warm the water up with a saucepan of water off the cooker. Made you jump if you didn't move your feet in time! :)