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Richard Hammond isn't strictly a Brummie. He lived in Shirley and moved with his family to Yorkshire where he began his career in radio. Both his parents are Bruumies though.

I had a mate who, as a policeman, had to help smuggle the Beatles out of the Odeon after a concert. The Beatles were at the height of their popularity at the time and there was no way that they could be brought through the front door and onto New Street. Behind the Odeon was a narrow...

Oh, the memories of the old market hall are flooding back! As I was born in the war, I sadly don't recall it in it's complete state but the photos show a magnificent structure that any city in the world should be proud of. I remember a large bomb that was situated inside the market and we'd sit...

Regarding No 73 and the photo of the prefabs on Wake Green Road, I lived in one of those for over 25 years and I'm not a Hobbit! At that time (in the 50's) I delivered papers for the post office that was situated at the junction of Wake Green Road and Swanshurst Lane (next to a chemists and...

I had five happy years working at Longbridge (71 - 76) before moving north with the company. With regard to the Mini, I remember talking to a line worker whose job was to put five inflated wheels and tyres into the front footwell of a body shell that passed him every two minutes on the conveyor...

I remember the Nissen huts on Billesley Common. They were certainly there in the early 50's and were lived in by homeless families although they were in an awful state. They were demolished - not too well - and the area turned into a car park. The surface was very lumpy with evidence of broken...

I believe that the Churches of Christ movement joined with the United Reformed in 1981. I too was a member of the Sparkhill Church of Christ and can remember many of the things stated by others. I recall that there were churches in Erdington, Gt Francis Street, Bournville and on Moseley Road...