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Hiya Nick, The only 'source' I've seen for the Phantom Rider of Aldridge Rd was that old book my late neighbour showed me. Unfortunately I can't remember its title or its author, and have since looked through the shelves of various local libraries without success. It doesn't surprise me that...

Guys, I think you may well be correct about that first photo being Wellington Road....I did say my memory is very vague. I do remember Toy's Chemist - in fact, I was going to ask what was on the corner of Birchfield Rd and Wellington Rd before the 'new'(?) C&C was built, but you've answered it...

Guys, I think you may well be correct about that first photo being Wellington Road....I did say my memory is very vague. I do remember Toy's Chemist - in fact, I was going to ask what was on the corner of Birchfield Rd and Wellington Rd before the 'new'(?) C&C was built, but you've answered it...

Hi Nick and everyone else, Good to see some new spooky discussion on this Forum! Nick, you'll recall that you and I spoke privately about the supposed "Phantom Horsewoman" of Aldridge Road, Streetly, but I wonder if anyone else has heard of this phenomenon? The story goes that it's the ghost of...

Hi Mohawk and Lyn, My dad and grand-dad both referred to the smaller of the two as the 'old' Crown & Cushion. As I haven't been down that way for ages I don't know if it's still a pub. I have misty memories of walking with my Mom along the other side of Birchfield Rd, past Brookes' Opticians...

Mohawk, that's the bit of the old Birchfield Road with the traffic heading towards the city-centre just before the junction with Aston Lane and Wellington Road. I can just remember having an eye-test at the optician's shop. The caption also vindicates my claim that the 'old' Crown & Cushion...

I'm looking for photos of the outside and (preferably) interior of this restaurant, which was on the corner of Smallbrook Queensway and Suffolk St. I think it opened in the early 1960's and for a long time was a favourite place of ours for birthdays and so forth. It was the only restaurant in...

Hi Eric, I'm one of the old school and my models are scratch-built. Occasionally I do build from a kit, but have never bought a ready-to-fly model, although some of these are truly fantastic (and expensive). The club I'm in is lucky enough to own a flying-field in rural Leicestershire, so no...

My hobby ever since I was 13 or 14 has been model aircraft flying. Without it, I think I might have gone totally ga-ga! I have flown in competitions since the early 1960's and have won the British National Championships. It lifts me up and away from the hum-drum drudgery of life, gets me out...

I agree with Norfolk Brummie here. My wife, Gawd bless 'er, watches programmes such as Homes Under The Hammer and Escape To The Country. Frankly, I fail to see what entertainment value there is in progs such as these. It seems to me that they are purely to allow well-off people the opportunity...

A couple of weeks ago - and I apologise in advance if anyone has posted here about it - there was an item on BBC internet news about how Birmingham is currently THE Number One location for people moving out of London to somewhere else in the UK. Apparently, year-to-date, some 6000 people have...

The Aberfan Disaster had quite an effect on me. Several times over the years I've visited the Pantglas Memorial, not because I had any personal connection with any of the victims, but just to sit and think. I know we're not supposed to be 'political' on this Forum, but prior to Aberfan I was a...

Hello again. I've done a bit more checking up - there were 3-seat versions of the 504K built, but they had an enclosed cabin, which the aircraft in the photo hasn't got. Only one of each type (504M and 504Q) of the 3-seaters were built, and I believe they were both for civilian use. The photo...

That appears to be an Avro 504K, which was the standard training aircraft for the most part of WW1. The aircraft carries RAF insignia, so I don't think it was a civilian machine. Hard to date the picture, could be 1920's, but I'd have said somewhat earlier. Standard 504Ks carried only the...

Hi Phil, quite correct. However, in Joolz's case his problem was recorded as the effect of an accident rather than any organic disease or disorder. We think he may have tried to jump in the dark onto a new side-gate we'd just had fitted, and which is about 2 feet higher than the old gate - and...

Last year our beautiful black cat Joolz collapsed at about 11.00pm on a Bank Holiday. I immediately phoned our vet's emergency number and I was told to bring him to the surgery right away. The vet was wonderful, but couldn't make a diagnosis there and then. By now Joolz had recovered a little...

Hi Simon, yep, "Drive" is it - I don't know why I made this mistake, as the garage that does my MoT's is right opposite the Museum. One little memory that's just come to mind. Shortly after the trams were taken off Brum's streets, my elder brother went to Witton Depot where they were scrapping...

Hi Alan, thanks for your very kind comments! I felt I was spending way too much time on the computer, posting to a number of forums about various subjects, and missing out on my other interests. I have passed on your regards to Maire, and she says "Hi!" I do remember very well the Billiard...

Birmingham Transport Museum exhibits were moved from the tram shed to a converted factory unit in Shenstone Close, Aldridge. I've never been, but I've heard it's quite popular. All the best, Graham

The 'reply' instructions on this forum are unlike any others I've ever seen....but never mind. With regard to the buses that ran along Witton Road to and from Town, there was indeed the No 7 to Portland Road and the No's 5 and 5A, which terminated in the centre of Birmingham. I went to George...