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I hope it's not knocked down! it's a grade 2 listed building, must ask the previous owner when I see him next week, I think it will be a shock to him as he was brought up there.... Several years ago he bought a house across the road from Pinfold House and I rewired it with his help and when we...

Pinfold House has been a private brewery in the past, my father worked on it when it was bought by Mr Leonard and spent months making it habitable, when a local cinema was being closed he and several others went to remove the parquet floor and it has been relaid throughout the house.It has...

I worked on the Perry Barr Shopping centre ,not the one that's there now, but the one built around 1963/4 and there was a Barrows shop there when it opened.

Hi Jake. I went from 1951-1962 from infants through to seniors. Take a look on this site for school pics and info https://billesley.org Pete Haylor

As a Fifties child, I watched the TV series, "Survivors" and wonder how todays generation would survive? I live in a area where I know where there are fresh water springs,where to find shelter and food, can provide electricity using a solar panel with a 12 volt battery to light a house.We have...

More poor pics!

Hi All. Went to the opening of the Depot, we had to wait for our MP Steve McCabe to cut the ribbon. Sorry for the poor pics lens got wet waiting! and poor lighting inside, I could have a poor lit pic but in focus or brighter pic but with moving people out of focus . Pete

Congratulations on you find! As you say you never know when another piece of your family will appear, only last week I was contacted by a relative who had been sent three pictures of distant relatives by someone else doing our family tree.

My wife still wears hers every day, it's almost apart of her dress code! As it's such a useful item i wonder how long before the EU will legislate about its shape and uses??? European Legislate No 123/8 Part 1 This item must be made from cotton grown in the Southern states of America on a...

Hi There. My wifes family are Osborne's, they lived in Balsall Heath ending at St Martins Flats before moving to Billesley.Mom & Dad were "Harry" and Lily and the children are Jean,Chris, Rita,Hazel, Johnny, Kenny, Susan, Josie & Pattie.

From the replies of forum members I wonder if you listen to "Brian Matthews" on Radio 2 on Saturdays from 8-00..........10-00 as he plays all music from this era:)

In about 1970 I bought a set of exhausts from a shop at the junction where the steam hammer island in Aston is, (Aston Rd North/Corporation St?) It was on the right hand side and that was also called The Red House. What was the shop on Potters Hill in Aston?

Does anyone remember a dry cleaning company called something like "Archie Sares" My Aunt worked for them and used to bring me a model to build, you cut the pieces from a flat carboard pack which was printed with a signwritten van? It would have been about 1955-1962

I remember the shop "at the back of Rackhams" I bought a "Cox" 1/32 scale slot racing car, they were considered the best and my friends and I spent many weeks building them for racing, my mate bought a four wheel drive Lola F1 car and on its first run it melted the track! The engines used to...

I still have a box made with the plywood from a Hurricane plane, the chap that made it worked on them at the Co-op, where they used to make pianos before the war.

I have had my Bus Pass for two years now and used it once, I wanted to go to Birmingham so I went to the station but no-one wanted to see or check it. At Moor St the same again, no-one checked. The return trip was the same, I might as well have left it at home!

Is it Hurst St?

Does anyone remember the cafe in Cornwall St? It was sandwiched between the office blocks and I only found it because I went to work next door to it... Always did great sos & toms. When I started to work for the MEB the chap I was with took me first to the cafe on the Pershore Rd between the...

John70. Yet again you are spot on ,my mate borrowed his girlfriends horse, about 1962. Pete

Hi John. Came across this thread today,Did you get the info you wanted, if not see below..... Under "Where is it" it is not Bromwall Rd but not far from there! Pete