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Thank you for the Paynes link, it is very interesting. There is mention of Mere Green shop but was there one in the centre of Sutton?

Paynes shoe repairs/ shoe shop? Is something I remember from my childhood in Sutton Coldfield. Does anyone else remember them?

Surprise peas were freeze dried garden peas popular in the 70's. When reconstituted with boiling water they were an unnaturally bright green. They were useful for people without freezers or much fresh food storage space. I also remember the dried peas from the 50's with the bicarb, which I...

Whist clearing out my mother's house I found an interesting book by Carl Chinn (and signed by him) titled Homes for People 100 years of council housing in Birmingham. Published 1991 by Birmingham Books. The final chapter, The Future, makes interesting reading in retrospect!

Do I remember a wimpy bar on a corner in Erdington in the Mid 60's?

I read today on the BBC news website that they are going to remove one of the last remaining Paternoster lifts from Leicester university. There is a video that is worth watching on the report.

We still knew it as the Empress in the 50s and early 60s and after that we used to go to the Odeon.

Thank you.

Is this the picture house that became the Empress? Any idea of the year this photo was taken? As I said before, my uncle, Bernard Murphy was a projectionist there in the 1930's.

My uncle, Bernard Murphy was a cinema projectionist in the 1930s and 40s in Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth. It was a very skilled occupation.

I remember attending the Ideal home exhibition in Bingley Hall in the very early 60s. I was a junior member of the St John's ambulance brigade and we were on duty there when Freddie and the Dreamers performed in case any fans fainted!

Apart from the cars it does not look any different from when I used to feed the ducks there in the 1950s and early 60s. Is the café still there?

I don't know if there is any link but my Gt Grandfather was Bernard Hope 1867-1918. He had only daughters, but he had two older brothers George born 1865 and Sidney born 1866. their father was called Samuel born 1841 I have not traced the brothers down to the 20th century but know that our...

I have been following this thread with interest. I travel by train quite regularly and am amazed by the disparity in fares. I have a senior rail card and where possible use it to travel first class. I booked a one way ticket on line today, with Abellio Greater Anglia, for travel on Wednesday...

I don't know whether this has been mentioned on the forum before but Birmingham library services published a book by Kevin Duffy of Erdington library, with a forward by John Peel, about Mothers in 1997. I have a copy it is titled Mothers 1968-1971 the home of good sounds. It includes a full gig...

I went to Cardinal Wiseman Secondary school, New Oscott between 1962 and 1964 and have a vague recollection of the Winwood brothers practising in what was something like a scout hut nearby. Can anyone enlighten me and fill in some more details to aid my memory.

Was the cake shop Wimbush's?

Does anyone remember Gills toy shop? I worked there as a Saturday girl 1966 and 1967. I met my best friend there and we have some very happy memories of the staff selling everything from World Cup Willies to newspapers and stationery. We used to go over to Frosts to spend our earnings on...

I asked my 87 year old Mother. She said she thinks Thornton's Cabin was next to Bata shoe shop which was next to Woolworths. She also said there was another chocolate shop before that in the same premises. They didn't go there much because in 1950 as there was still sweet rationing, so she...

Hi Lyn Was it not possible to change the title to Schools and Colleges? I think it would generate wider interest from those who attended the many further and higher education institutions in Birmingham Carolann B