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Great picture. Between the colour and the sunshine the people nearly come to life! A story to be told in every face. The curly haired boy at the back seems to be either wearing his older brothers trousers or they were bought in the Rag Market. 'you'll grow into 'em' my nan used to say :)

I did that a couple of times in the 70's on a sleepy summer Sunday afternoon. Also did it with my wife and two children in the early 90's, when we came up to visit my parents in Acocks Green, to show them the diverse city that I had been born in. Had to catch it when I went to the 'Yew Tree'...

Not sure if PatHayward still uses this site but I went to Garretts Green College between 1968 & 1972 to do my craft pipefitting & gas/arc welding City & Guilds. Have recently retired after fifty years in the industry. The name Hayward has haunted me all night as I am sure he was one of our...

Born in 1952 at the Sorrento, Moseley, my parents and I lived with my grand parents for a while in Pollard Road, Acocks Green before moving to a Flat in Church Road, Moseley. When I was about three my father bought a house 2/35 Auckland Road, Sparkbrook where we lived for 10 years, and then onto...

The Bridget mentioned in Edmund.s postings #17 & #19 and dwilly's posting #18 was my Auntie, Bridgid Ware. She took over the College Arms on the Stratford Road early 2013 at the age of 75 but sadly passed away a year later in 2014.

The picture of #5,899 brought back memories. You can just make out the pub 'Hole in the Wall' under the ramp. 2/3 years after that picture was taken would have shown me scurrying up that ramp on my way to the 'Cabin' for a few pints. if you were lucky you could have seen me running (staggering)...

The screenshot of the junction of Stockfield Road and Warwick Road in devonjim's post #13 brings back some memories! I lived in Douglas Road with my parents from about 1963 until I got married in 1981 and moved down to the South Wales coast. My parents moved from there to Baldwins Lane, Hall...

I went to the Lucas Christmas parties at Shaftsmoor Lane. My father worked there from 1951 and later at Cranmoor Boulivard as a toolsetter until he retired after 40 years of service. The parties were great fun with an entertainment show performed normally in the works canteen. At the end of the...

No problem Maurice, Was only reflecting on my past. As we all approach the great Brummie land in the sky its good to look back and remember :cool:

It was indeed a foundry! I lived in Auckland Road in the 50's. We used to look inside when they left the sliding doors open on Auckland Road, at all the molten metal and furnaces. they sometimes unloaded stillages of scrap metal in the doorway. Once a stillage was fill of brass badges to be...

Mrs Mary A Ware living at 135a Dartmouth Street was my great grandmother. My great grandfather Henry Albert Ware also lived there along with my grandfather, Harry Albert Ware until he got married in 1926, age 24. Henry Albert Ware died in 1924 of TB, aged 46. My mother always spoke of visiting...