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I don't know if a picture of the blue plaque has been posted, if not Charlie.

Another Picture from the early 50s

I've really haven't got a clue Phil, but it reminds me of a passage between I think between Trafalgar Road and Moseley Road Charlie

Hi Malta, The only cloths factory I know of in Balsall Heath was the Wearwell Overall Factory in Longbridge Road, it was there all through the war and well after, it ended up moveing on to the Coventry Road when the slum clearance came into force. Charlie

Sorry Phil made a bit of a hash

Hi Phil, I don't think it was Winifred Grove, the houses in Winifred Grove baked on to my in-laws yard, their entry was opposite Hampden Street, the entry was a very narrow entry of blue bricks lethal in the winter, opened out after about 20 yards in the first house live Jim Taylor and his...

Is it/was it the postal office top of Hill Street?

Hi Pauline, My Aunt Floss and my cousins Alf, Renee and David Nicholls used to live at 145 Sherborne Road from 1945 to 1955. Charlie

I can remember going there with my father when I was a young lad to watch boxing matches up on the first floor. charlie

Hi All, When we moved up to Selly Park in early 1957 Kensington Road was a un-adopted road, from Pershore Road up to Selly Park Road. After dark, the dirty old men in there cars used to take the girls of the night there for there pleasures and day time you could see the evidence lying on the...

Hi Astonian Dave pass away in a old folks home, old age and dementia. His wife Lorna passed away a couple years back now. My wife's cousin married Dave's son Terry Reuben, he passed on April 2000. Sorry it's all bad news. But there you are it comes to us all in the end. Charliewag

Dave Reuben passed away July 2003, He was 91 years old. Charliewag

Hi, I always use www.midlandshistoricaldata.org. You can have 3 Months subscription unlimited for £37.50. It covers years 1912 to 1955. I find it very good

Hi All, This is my first time I have tried adding photo's, I hope it's a success. This magazine dated May 1948 belongs to my sister and I thought interesting they had stretched limo's back then. Charlie

My Grandmother Charlotte Sheasby age 10 years with her brother James age 5/6 years where sent to to Canada on the 12th June 1879, they left from Liverpool with the Middlemore Homes on the ship MORAVIAN arriving in Quebec, Canada 22nd June 1879. My Grandmother arrive back in England 1888/1889...

Hello Hateley, The Lyttleton PH was about 1/3 of the way down from Longbridge Road and Longmore Steet. The bottle was glass with a wire holding the cork stopper, if you shake the bottle on releasing the wire, the cork would shoot into the air. The photo is my sister outside of the shop...

I remember Sucklings had a bottling factory behind house just down from the Wearwell factory . My mother worked for years at the Wearwell. Also I used to buy Sucklings ginger beer for thruppence a bottle from the sweet shop the other side of the entry to the Lyttleton PH in Balsall Heath road...