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I vividly remember The Swan Pub, going past to home for lunch, with the old ladies sat on the wall with their turbans on drinking half a pint of ale, (in a ladies glass of course) I recall hearing them call each others :ducks or duckie or dear) Happy days...

Sorry Roy, I don,t think I remember you but I started at Slade Road in 1952' I swam in all the galas at wood coat St, (think that's how you spelt it)? Long long time ago......

Thank you for sharing that with us, so interesting, my Mum worked there in the fifties and as we only lived just up the road, in St Thomas, I often went to meet her on summer evenings to walk home with her. I was born in 1947 , safe on the streets in those days.

Thanks, Jenny, all a long time ago but such lovely memories..

Mike, That's a lovely story, so many happy memories, the curtains must have been very expensive, I wish someone knew who owned :The Star: I just remember a rather rotund gentleman in the foyer each time I went there..... Sad all the theatres became supermarkets or, like the one in Wylde Green...

Would love to see your picture, Albert or Mr Harris as I was told to call him was a true gentleman, he looked after his Mum for years and finally, when she died, he got to live with his lovely wife, who had been looking after her Mum. He was very good to my Mum and me and my brother, like I...

I remember. Frank , Albert filled in for him when he had his holidays, I never once paid for my Saturday afternoon matinee, lucky little girl..... Did Frank own the Star Picture House on Slade Road as well ? My Mum worked there for a while. Almost next to my old School, Slade Road infants and...

He lived next door to me when I was a child, he also managed the Palace, Erdington and the Plaza, Stockland Green. He was still alive up until five years ago. When I did a short visit to St Tomas Road. Have not been back to Birmingham since, thanks for the reply. Dee.

Did you know Albert Harris? He was the Manager of most of the Birmingham cinemas at one time and another.

Your very kind, thanks, I only have one photo of my old Dad, he died when I was twenty one and pregnant, so sad.

I wish Podgery had some photos of the men who worked there, my Dad was there from the end of the second world war until he died in 1968.

What wonderful looking ladies, and they say the girls are good today, some of those girls could the socks of some of them today, lovely, thank you Dee

They were like that back in our childhood years, didn't tell us a lot..... Not like today's children, they want to know everything ! I don't know where in the factory Dad worked but he did nickel plateing and used to bring huge heavy ash trays home.... We lived in Erdington and he walked to...

Sorry cannot answer your question but just wanted to, my Dad worked there for twenty years, his name was Chris Windsor.