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For a moment I thought this image was showing the gas regulator at Cotterage island, but it does not quite fit. The junction of Pershore Road and Lifford Lane is a possibility too.

This image is the junction of Cartland Road and Vicarage Road Kings Heath.

That’s it Janice, in Central Square. looks like they were a chain, maybe they got bought up by the big boys.

Just thinking of Erdington again, does anyone recall Elmo supermarket? A brand that came and disappeared without anyone noticing.

The Palace Cinima was quite interesting. The foyer was very long and bent to the right. Someone told me that this was when it was a very small village theatre. The cinema auditorium was a later addition added at the back and the original theatre becoming the foyer. The Palace Cinima was I...

That them. We would have a whip round and share them between us. Sophisticated treats or sophisticated cinema goers, us like a pack if wild dogs fighting over who had one more matchmaker. Just wondering who made them?

The Palace sold Kia-Ora and very sophisticated orange flavour Match Makers, small chocolate sticks.

The Grade A is a Local Heritage List and is a process developed by Historic England to allow community groups, local authorities and other interested groups to identify local heritage assets that may not have been deemed sufficiently significant to be added to the National Heritage List for...

We called them Tesco Specials. The had the hems turned up. I am sure there was a café called The Griddle Inn on the corner? It seemed frightfully posh with its frothy coffee, toasted burger buns and they would remove the rind from the bacon on your bacon cob. A step too far for my friend and...

Hi and welcome to Birmingham History Forum. There may be other members on the forum who will know more than me about it history. Looking at it on Goolgle Maps its quite an attractive building that I imagine was built about the same time as the social housing adjacent to it. The government have...

I am thinking the same Janice, there was a Caledonian Railway company who wanted to link the west coat line with Scotland.

It looks like what is now Faculty Coffee in Piccadilly Arcade

My poor mom would go and mop the hall floor everyday in the hope of seeing someone else to chat too. Lots of other residents were doing the same.

They are indeed however they do need a bit of TLC

Looks like it to me lyn, a post office nad telephone exchange. There was also a large railway goods yard behind it too, but I do not know if it served the post in any way.

Sounds right to me, my own mom and dad had to go on the council house waiting list for over 8 years before getting a flat on the Lyndhurst Estate. They lived with the in-laws during that time as a lot of couples did. I too recall the council doing envelope schemes around Aston, Witton and...

I am of the opinion that the back to back housing had to go, but there was a lot of terraced housing that was in perfectly good condition. Most of that hat could have been upgraded. At the time, there were a lot of governments grants available for redevelopment which I feel could have been...

I certainly recall that sectioned diesel engine and the jet engine being on display in the science section

How fascinating, can you share any photos or other information please. I do recall all the pigeon lofts when I lived in a coal mining area of South Derbyshire. I also recall a fair few people in Birmingham kept pigeons too.

There are a couple of photos here