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Yes, I do, a stalwart at Perry Barr.

Of course these were the days before we were all overstuffed with entertainment, via TV, Internet, Mobile Phones, I-pads, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc, etc. The days when we had a half-day on a Wednesday, and would get off home, and go out and play football, I mean OUTSIDE, in the fresh...

Hi, as a newby I hope someone may be able to point me in the right direction. I have asked this question before, and had no response, so......Does anyone in the Handsworth area recall a Football Club, called "HANDSWORTH WEDNESDAY"? My father played for them pre-WW2. I am just wondering who would...

I love the wording "Crowds to be limited". See this photograph from Perry Barr in 1950!

*I too remember those riders. Of the newer riders, that is, of the 1970's George Major was a friend of mine.

*Thank you. I look forward to seeing it. Years ago, I wrote a verse about the onion Fair, and if I knew how to upload it (it's an mps) then I would post it here. Once again, thank you. Gerry

Hi, and thank you. This looks so much like the shop I remember. I am still looking to see if I can find anything else that will give me a memory jog about the old shop. But, I think this was it. Thank you. Gerry

I am thinking that perhaps Graham bought it from Civic, maybe....I am still trying to think of Graham's surname, and then it may help.... Thanks.

OK here we go. As a Great Barr lad, I remember the shop names as they were, before the Number 51 was ever there.... The buses back then were all Midland RED, the Great Barr to Birmingham bus was the 119. The Walsall via Great Barr was the 118. The bus terminus was right outside "Peace's" The...

Hi matey, no I don't think so. The shop was much smaller. I really can't think what the name was over the door...... I will have a think. Thanks anyway. Gerry.

When I was sixteen, I used to work in a TV shop in Saltley, just down from the traffic lights at the Gate. It was run by a man called Graham. In the window he had a camera, AND a mic and we would sit in the workshop upstairs, and listen to the comments from the people looking in the window at...

I think it may have been "SCOTTS EMULSION" a Children's medicine, well known in the forties and fifties.

We brought it back AGAIN in 2005, after a great effort.

Here's a couple more. Alan Hunt seated on machine, with Tamworth,s Ivor Davies standing. Both rode for The Brummies for several seasons. Alan was killed riding in South Africa. Ivor, I last spoke with in 1984.

Thanks Carolina. Way back in the early 2000's a group of friends and myself, worked our socks off, with meetings, and planning discussions with Birmingham City Council, to get Speedway back at Perry Barr. Suffice to say, we did it. But lost out then, to people that forgot us. They forgot what...

Old Photograph of the way it used to be. This was 1947 at the Alexander Stadium, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr.

Can anyone tell me what the name of the road was/is, that Cannings Factory was in? was it Bolton Street?

Thanks matey, that is a cracking photograph. I wonder if there are any more out there? Thank you so much.

Hi! Many thanks for this information. I think that this was the event. I have never seen anything about it before. The mix of cars there was wonderous, from F1 cars through to sports cars and Special Saloon racing cars. the sun was out, and noise was wonderful Birmingham celebrated it's...

Sorry about the late reply, new to these pages. Reference the school trip to the Clifton, are you sure the film wasn't "HUE & CRY" about a bombed out London, and a gang of school kids who thwarted a Nazi group? it was a big hit, and starred, a young James Kenney, and Alastair Sim. just a...