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Great photos .... I believe #633 shows Lower Temple Street (not Newhall Street).

Louharbs .... 98 Bull Street is shown as Bensons Restaurant in the Goad 1889 fire insurance map attached.

devonjim .... I think this is a photo of the shop on the corner of Medina and Havelock Roads. It's earlier than 1947, but does it ring any bells ?

Unfortunately I think the Greet shop is just out of shot on this aerial photo from June 1935 (from the excellent Britain from Above site). But it does give a good view of Greet Primary School .... I went there too 1961-67. I recall that the Fellowes sweet shop on the corner of Percy Road and Lea...

Here's a photo of Warwick Road in Greet between St John's Road and Percy Road c1963 ..... was the shop in this block ?

I assume this is the Reg Ironmonger who had a fishing tackle shop in the 1960s/70s on Stratford Road in Sparkhill ? I bought most of my tackle, bait etc from there as a lad.

BrummieJayne .... might you have visited the harvest festival at St John's Church, rather than Church of Christ? You would have walked past Church of Christ to get there (it would have been twice the distance for your little legs!). If so, rest assured that St John's was still standing when I...

KDGreet : this response is probably too late for your history project, but .... I went to Greet School 1960-67. I lived in Thornhill Road, at the other end of Percy Road. The headteacher was Mr Baynes for most of that time, but Mr Carroll took over c1967. Here's a few photos .... #1 Aerial...

jayf : a very late reply to your Post #37 from 2015 .... I too attended Church of Christ in Sparkhill (on Stratford Road near Court Road junction). I went to their Sunday School in the early 1960s which was held in the small hall behind the church. I recall a number of Sunday School daytrips to...

mw0njm : As you might imagine, there were always other children spreading rumours about a ghost .... but I was more scared of the jellyfish in the Irish Sea !

For 6 consecutive years when I was a child in the 1960s we spent the first week of August on our summer family holiday at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales. Rooms were fitted out as basic self-catering accommodation i.e. beds and a calor gas hob. It was a fantastic place to holiday as a...

Whilst browsing old Birmingham newspapers I spotted the 2 attached items .... Birmingham Daily Post 30 March 1915 : a gatling gun and ammunition are donated for placement in Sparkhill Park. Birmingham Daily Gazette 1 February 1929 : the gatling gun is still in Sparkhill Park, and there's...

Since the 1968 photo, Tallett's has moved a little further down Moseley Road to the corner of Sherbourne Road East .... presumably including the old #367 site.

I think this is the block of buildings referred to in the above maps. Picture dated as 1968. For context .... the building behind the right-most tree is the bank on the corner of Moseley Road and Belgrave Road.

Here are a few more old Formans Road photos that have appeared on the local history sites over the past few years.

Here are a few more old Formans Road photos that have appeared on the local history sites over the past few years.

I believe from other posts that the replacement bridge was built in 1924.

The building on the right of this Brighton Road photo could be a pub (or premises suitable for later conversion to a pub) .... but I can't read the sign ??

boringmike …. The 2 pools were always open-plan in my day, during the 1960's. FYI Sparkhill Baths also had a café …. with hot Bovril, Cow & Gate, and wagon wheels (when they really were the size of wagon wheels!).

There were 2 pools in the old Sparkhill Baths …. here's a photo. It also shows the diving boards that were removed for health and safety reasons long before the old baths closed.