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Grew up with "short back & sides". After moving to Moseley 50+ years ago used to visit "Tom's" in York Rd [Tom passed away a long time ago] until the Covid lockdown. My son has long cut his own hair [very short all over] and volunteered to do mine. He made a very good job of it - still "short...

I speak as a Chartered Librarian with 40 years experience with Birmingham Library Services. I remember being sent on a course, must be 30 years ago!, on digitalising library photographic collections and coming back all enthusiastic. Sadly the powers that be and the Local Studies Dept. didn't...

Just came across this fascinating postcard for sale on ebay which set me off thinking as it does. The building looks Georgian perhaps and the postcard was postmarked in 1903. The building is long gone. If you look carefully above the roof of the building you can see a cupola with a weather...

My first email scam of2021: email reputedly from Royal Mail with all the right logos etc saying that they had tried to deliver a parcel & no answer. Click here, give correct address & PAY £3.00!! No card put through door [we were in!] & Royal Mail don't charge to redeliver. Take care.

Hi, bit off topic but: The estate agency mentioned was Owen Woods in 1982 run by father & son. Owen Woods was for many years a BCC councillor, rather than an employee, if it's the same guy. Very good firm - sold our house for £6000 more than "a rather dodgy firm" in Kings Heath valued it at. A...

I met my Brummie wife as a student in Liverpool in 1966. First day of term sitting waiting for lecture to start when Irene walked in. Wham, love at first sight. 54 years and three children later, still feel the same and still in Brum after 52 years.

Came across this on Ebay & thought it might be of interest. Said to be outside Springhill College.

Very interesting thread. If we weren't in Tier 3 etc I would have suggested a visit to Harborne Library. They have over a 1000 photos of Harborne including about 100 on the High Street. The picture of the Vine in 1965 appears in the book called "Old Haborne" by Roy Clarke [aka Superdad3] which...

I was looking at a U Tube video of Dinorwic Quarry near Llanberis. High up in the quarry was a weighing machine made by Henry Pooley. Must be very old and possibly the highest ever Pooley weighing machine. Too high for me to even think of visiting!!

Came across this site which has a phot of. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/222321/

Checked on line - the Avery Roll of Honour used to be on display in the Avery Museum. This closed years ago. According to the Imperial War Museum [https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52264] the Roll of Honour it is still on site at the Soho Foundry, Foundry Lane, Sandwell B66 2LP...

Another standby product when I was little - Vaseline. Still use it for all sorts of things often not what it was intended for eg oiling door hinges. It's the 150th year of production!

Wake Green House, Moseley: Not really a manor house but important in the history of Moseley and Wake Green. This was a large country house on Wake Green Rd, Moseley between what is now Billesley Lane & St Agnes Rd. It dated back to at least the 18th Century but was demolished in 1903. It was the...

Boots in Moseley Village closed a few months ago. Wondering what will be next.

Just been reading this thread again. Poor old Priestley. After 14th July 1791 the rioters proceeded to Priestley's home, Fairhill at Sparkbrook, pillaged it and burnt it to the ground. Moseley Hall followed on 16 July. What isn't so well known is that after Joseph Priestley had made his escape...

Born in Kelvin Grove, Toxteth Moved to Cambridge Rd, Moseley [not Kings Heath!] in 1968 Now in Oxford Rd, Moseley for 40 yrs. Love the area. When we moved house, it took removals about 2 minutes from one to the other

My memory [possibly 50 yrs ago!] was that if you walked along the lake away from Yardley wood Rd, you came to a gate in a wooden fence & the 2nd golf course was through the gate. The red circle on the attached map from Streetmap gives an indication of where I am thinking of. Many years later...

Wasn't there another golf course in the park? I have a vague recollection of a more substantial course accessed through a gate at the very far end corner of the park.

When our children were younger [about 25 yrs ago!] a favourite outing was to the Wyre Forest and through the Hawkbatch Valley and on to Seckley Wood and the viewing platform looking out over the river. The path crossed the Elan Valley pipeline at which there were three platforms with large metal...

Great photo. My 3 children attended but a lot later. NB: move to main Moseley C of E thread?