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Yes I done my first shopping experience on my own doing a full shopping list with my mums wheelie shopper in sainsburys I was only 9 but I felt I was a grown woman going into a big shop on my own without anybody with me.I remember the Tesco's on the corner which had a set of stairs just...

I know it's not food but I remember when I was young having to queue up with my two brothers for our weekly spoon of cod liver oil which our mother forced us to have .SHe believed it kept illness AWAY! WE always had a glass of cordial ready to swallow down straight away and sometimes if we were...

Thanks again never knew of link but found it now still shocked to find out it was a morgue .

Thanks for that but I am shocked it was a mortuary of all things .well at least I know what it was built for but what a shocker.

Yes thankyou for your time and effort.

Further up this road on the corner of Henrietta street and summer lane there is a very old building which I always passed I never found out what the building was for or when it was built it is only small it looks like a church but cannot be sure of all the years I passed it I never seen anyone...

What a photo how them men worked in those conditions no hard hats or vis jackets and one man with a brush with all that rubble about ,their jackets all hanging on the fences with probably their squashed sandwiches in their pockets and what a mess they would of made on the seats of the pubs they...

This photo just reminded me of I am sure in the 60s the shop that took the corner up was a show room for kelvinator fridges which we purchased a kelvinator fridge from.Also further up there was a shop that sold trophies and medals which I was told were made in the factory next door to it .yes...

Thank you for the information you have sent down the pictures were great I was looking to see if my mum was in them you never know she could of been but sadly she was not . I had to laugh at the picture of the dentist room it must of frightened many a person it reminds me of the film 10...

Theres a lovely old building on Lancaster street newtown row that I remember going to when I was a child to have my teeth checked and also to have a sugar cube which I presume was for polio It must have been some sort of childrens clinic back in the 60s the building is still there but the only...

It's good to see the old shoe shop in the photo .the photo must of been taken between 1875 (that's when the company started) Freeman hardy & Willis then changed it's name to Freeman Hardy Willis in 1929 and before anyone queries the dates I got all the information off wikipedia.

Thanks for that .I did see them photos and I remember the railings but I dont remember the building having another level so I thought it was not the nursery but I was only 4 and only remember parts of the nursery so thanks again also while I'm here do you remember the small park I think it was...

Just been reading this old thread I went to a nursery the same time as your son i dont remember its name but it was at the top of brearley street on a slight hill it was not associated with the infant school st Chad's at the other end of brearley st .all the children were assigned an animal...

I use to shop there in the early 70s and the one memory I have is the big dressing room with mirrors that everyone shared they had no individual cubicles which I preferred .they changed it back to cubicles soon after I suppose everybody complained.I also use to shop in Chelsea girl which there...

Yes climbing the walls legs astride up the alleyways ,those dangerous silver metal heavy contraptions they called roller skates they were okay going up and down the alleyways but God help you when you got on the pavements,annoying the big daddy long legs under your window sills with your water...

Thank you for your kind words .my mum was quiet but she stood her ground especially when our dad use to come and bring her home in the evenings he use to stand at the bar and expected my mum to serve him before all the other men waiting to be served and of course she made him wait his turn ha ha !

I got the information off wikipedia I put in grand central Birmingham and it gave me this information so have a look you may be right but I dont KNOW!

New street station had a big reconstruction during which the Birmingham shopping center was created (changed its name to the pallasades in the early 80s)the centre opened in 1971 which had escalators from new street station going into the center also had exits to the bridge link bullring,another...

Thanks for that information I never heard of gamma but I'm afraid I still be using gaffer as that's what I've always said and its sounds better (well to me anyway) but thanks anyway.

O my God yes. She only worked there part time she moved over to that pub from the lamplighter pub where she worked in for quite a few years unfortunately she passed away in 2007.