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Viv - I remember from my school days the reign of Queen Qnne as being from 1702-1714, I think you might have the dates wrong here. Must have a look when Warwickshire cheese died out, might be time for a re-introduction?

Perhaps Jayell can confirm that the tall building on the left was the entrance to the Ninevah Dance Studios? I remember waiting outside for the door to be opened and then going up loads of stairs. I think the studios were facing Soho Road, but the entrance was definitely in Ninevah Road.

Unfortunately Lin, I can't tell you very much at all. For the first two years I was only home during school holidays and so that means I only properly lived there for two years. I remember going into one of the houses, during an evening but why I was there and who I was with completely...

Well that's very interesting Mike. I did think the Liberty jewellery would have been made in London, how wrong can you be? I hae always been very fond of Liberty designs, and when I worked in Birmingham in the 90's I bought a Liberty shopping bag from a shop near to Rackhams, to take my spare...

Yes, Booth is buried at St Mary's, Handsworth.

Shows what I know then, doesn't it? LOL. Mike is it the same company as the silk one?

I used to work in the same building, for Grimleys, the surveyors. The Nat West entrance was only small, I had long left the company before I knew where it was, Grimleys had a larger entrance facing the cathedral. I can truthfully say I worked at the back of Rackhams!

I know a little. My gt grandmother's brother worked there in the early 1900's. They were silk fabric and other small item importers, it was a shop, not a manufactoring company. I would imagine that the Liberty jewellers were in London, but not altogether sure about that. Mikejee may be...

I was shocked at the St Thomas's school photo - I have only ever seen a drawing of the school and this is obviously the back. It does look down at heel and rather sad. Does anyone know if the school records are preserved and if they are online?

It's only a short while since I used to visit regularly Viv, as my mother in law lived in Handsworth Wood from 1952 until she left at the age of 90. We used to take various routes there, just to see how things had changed over the years. My eldest daughter was born at Heathfield Maternity Home...

My husband immediately recognised this photo Viv. Westminster Road is on the right, this is looking from Perry Barr end towards the Villa Cross. When my husband was about 5 he said the shop on the left which he thinks was a chemist, still had all that paraphanalia outside. What an elegant...

Well maintenance doe shave a hight cost I agree, but so does rebuild. The Newbury's building is still there under the Paladian cladding, and so is Berlin House. I don't find the building particularly ugly, but I hae to say that most modern buildings I find completely awful. Bit of a...

Steam train ran from 1884 until 1906. I have a similar photo Rupert, and that is the wording that goes with this, so I can only assume it's right. Don't you wish that we still had all these beautiful buildings? I certainly do.

I didnot go there for long, Baz - at the age of four I would not eat beetroot or tomato, so I was sat on a chair in a corner, face to the wall because of that. I can still not stand even the smell of beetroot, but can just about manage tomatoes if they are very thinly sliced. Perhaps it was...

Goodness, I remember that shop - it was near the bus garage if I remember rightly? I lived in Arlington Road from 1947 until 1954. The nursery I attended was behind the YMCA. I remember the peg I used to hang my coat, and my blanket for my afternoon nap, had a purple plum on it (because at...

Thanks for the photo Viv, I remember now I have seen this before, I have it in one of my books, but had completely forgotten. I think the passage may have been named just because of who Johnson was. Before most people could read, and certainly before most of them could afford a newspaper, news...

Hi Viv, I don't think Isaac Horton actaully meant to move to property, but he bought another shop near or next to the one in the Bull Ring, sold that, and so on and so forth. He built the Midland Hotel, the Grand Hotel and many other properties. Hortons' Estate (the apostrophe is in the right...

Well Viv, it looks like Samuel Johnson only stayed in Birmingham for a short while somewhere after December 1731 when his father died, and he was gone by 1734. My book is not too clear on whether he stayed the whole of the time, but he stayed initially with Edmund Hector who had (at the time)...

There definitely was. I just love roast chestnuts - this one is the only one I can remember.

The picture above, showing Hortons (the first shop that Isaac Horton owned, and eventually lead to Hortons' Estate) is the same as one in the library which I believe is dated 1862. Isaac had moved on from his pork business (he started off as a pig breeder) into property and had died by 1880/1881.