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When at school I was in, "Matthew Boulton", house, and I remember being taken to see the the 3 boys, statue, with my class, then to to the gardens of memory, and the hall, showing the birmingham fallen. I don't think that would happen now, the modern world, seems to be afraid of our history!!

So true Janice, when I was young, we never heard of mothering Sunday, Fathers day, or Halloween.!!!

NULLI SECUNDUS, Mate!!

What a great photo Gerry, though I can't remember either stores, the busy Birmingham Street scene, full of hither and thither ,I do remember , mostly on Saturdays.

Hello Brother,!!! I still have a roll of 4x3, a small can of gun oi, and my SLR maintenance kit tin box with pull through , gas cleaner brush , amazing A!!

Hi Donbogen, just a caveat, to your post 7.62 SLR, I joined the Army as a boy in 1962, though we still had the .303 for drill, and the Foot Guards, used it for Public Duties, we used the SLR on the Range. I went into men's service at the end of 63, and we were issued with them then, for all...

Wow !! what a fantastic photo, I would think early, say about, 1870's 80's, well done Viv, and you Dave for reposting!!

What a brilliant pic!!, love the tudor building on the left, very atmospheric of the time say, late 19th early 20thC. Well done for finding it Dave!!

Glad to see you are still with us Oldbrit!!

Great Pic,Viv, very much of its time, I love the rickerty engineers platform for maintenance work!!

My wife and I used the "British Restaurant", in Cambridge, from 1970 to about 77, when it closed, I was told that it started in WW2, and continued through post war rationing, and was so popular that it continued as said, through to the 70's. You could get, well cooked, great old British meals...

I remember the chippy, in Gooch Street, Balsall Heath, from memory, may be wrong!! but it was quite small, with lots of shiny metal...

Lovely memories on here, so nice if the places still survive, nothing seems left for me from my days..

Great photo Pedro, so iconic of the time... That photo of Rackhams, is exactly as I remember Lyn...

I don't know what year, but I remember them being taken up with the old tram lines,

I remember back in 1963, winter, I was on leave, and went to my cousins in Great Barr, the bus I was on started to slide in the very icy snowy conditions, and for about 5 to 10 minutes, (may have been shorter or longer ?), the driver struggled, to keep it on track,with the conductor hanging on...

Yes Richard, what may seem hard to today's generation, was all natural occurrences for us, we had no plan B, my dad didn't own a car, I never even had a bicycle till I was 15. So no one to come and pick up a 10 year old, I was expected to find my own way home, and I did in the pitch dark, when I...

So very true Donbogen, but we did, and from and old memory , with out to much moaning!!

I remember one particular night when about 10 years old 1957ish, coming back from Harborne, to Weoley Castle, we had such bad fog. From the bottom of War Lane, to the Stonehouse Pub, the conductor walked took hours, we all had to get out and walk from there pitch black with fog, happy days !!

Does any on on this thread, remember the very bad Birmingham fogs of the 50's, when the conductor would have to walk in front of the bus ,with a great flaming torch, held aloft, and we would progress at walking pace for some miles!!