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    Then & Now

    It's very unusual to see a set of traffic lights, in the old photograph, being replaced by a zebra crossing in the new scene. Usually its the other way round, which worsens traffic congestion!
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    Needless Alley

    Great memories! Many thanks! But I can't remember where Spicers were located. I'm sure I must have passed their shop and peered in from time to time
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    Buckingham Street

    There is an excellent website that helps to identify when a car registration was issued: oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations
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    Buckingham Street

    I love these photos- many thanks Keiron and best wishes!
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    Crossroads programme

    Yes she did! As you'll know, Ronald Allen also appeared in the 1958 film A Night To Remember, starring Kenneth More (never keen on him, a bit smug), and he was also in TV series United! (1965-66), Dr. Who, (1968-70) and Hell Boats (1970). Have you seen any of these programmes, as I don't think...
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    Crossroads programme

    My wife was also fond of Mr. Hunter! (She had such good taste in men! Ha ha!). According to an article I once read, Ronald Allen worked a 46-hour week on the show, 5 days a week; ten months of the year, so the pace of working on Crossroads would have been relentless. He liked to collect antiques...
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    Crossroads programme

    I know what you mean! Still, she certainly was the star of Crossroads in her day. I'd loved to have met Larry Grayson. He seemed such a gentle man. My wife adored him!!
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    Crossroads programme

    Once, a Sometime around 1979/ 1980, I was walking along Birchfield Road, Perry Barr by the flyover, heading towards Holy Trinity Church, when I heard the unmistakable tyre sound of an expensive car approaching. I turned around, and instantly recognised Noele Gordon, behind the wheel of a brown...
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    Aston Road North

    Thank you so much Lyn, for posting those wonderful photos of Aston Road North! You've made an old boy very happy, and I hope your cold is better, now! A question: the first photo in post 64, Aston Road 1967, with Premier Cycles and Vespa Corner. I can't for the life of me recall the name of the...
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    What do you watch on tv nowadays ?

    It's Talking Pictures TV channel 81 Freeview, all the way!! I watch little else, nowadays. Marvellous films from Britain's glorious past, I can't get enough of them, and try and watch at least one different film every day. BBC, ITV & Channel 4 seem to prefer showing imported rubbish. My...
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    Bill Switchgear

    This was the main entrance to Bill Switchgear on Aston Lane sometime in the 1980s
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    Trinity Road

    Many thanks for jogging my memory, G. The old memory is not what it was!
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    Trinity Road

    I'm sure I remember a pub that used to stand at the corner of Woodridge and Trinity Road until the early '70s, but I can't for the life of me remember the name!
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