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David those escalators did work, but more often than not I had to use the stairs and my goodness, they were very long indeed. I never spent much time in the Bull Ring - I have never liked shopping centres, and still don't - but possibly what put me off was the fact that the shops I saw were...

There was both a set of stairs and escalator that went from Station Street into the Pallasades - it came out at the side of Brentford Nylons. I used to use it nearly every day at lunchtime when I worked in Hurst Street. It was not between the bus station and the market, but further up Station...

Stephen, we have spoken about this one before, it was called The Pump - situated right next to Barretts and Baird. I seems to remember being told it was an Irish pub, but as to the truth of that, I cannot be sure.

Mike, yes, Asda is what I thought it might have been, the name comes from Associated Daries anyway. The old Woolworths shop that I was speaking was just inside the Pallasades, next to the ramp, it's a pound shop now. I remember the new one in the Bull Ring and also the old one (showing my age...

Hi Viv - actually, now you mention it, neither do I - unless of course it went to the car park? I am positive this is the level where the shops were (I have not got a clue what shops were there originally except, perhaps for Woolworths), and I also cannot visualise another escalator going...

I think this picture is of the Pallisades is it not? The escalator takes you down to the main station. I agree Viv that it did not look that good or that clean. Although this is how it was, it was not quite as crisp looking as this. Call me a dinasaur, but I prefer the old one!!!

Phil, I have to correct you here - the burial ground in Park Street was an extension of St Martin's whereas St Bartholomews was completely emptied when Masshouse car park was built. When the bodies were removed, if they are entered the same as for Key Hill and Warstone, they won't be...

Well Viv, I think we can deal with them as they arise, but it's the frequency that it's brought back from Asia and elsewhere that is the problem. One day perhaps, it will virtually disappear, like smallpox did.

Actually Viv, we do still have the problem. It is often brought over here by Asian people, sometimes they just visit back home and return with it. By saying this, I am not being racist, just factual. My daughter now works in the community, but she was at Walsgrave in Coventry for 17 years...

That seems sensible, the coach used to take us up the Chester Road, - it was 1954 and I was only seven. We had to walk through what I can only describe as an undercroft - a bit of a dark tunnel, to the back of the building. Exciting times for a little child.

The bust is at the junction of Orphanage Road, but what the name of the other road is, I cannot remember offhand. I used to see it every day in 1954 - my school was temporarily housed in Josiah Mason's Orphanage.

Hortons' owns a huge slice of New Street, plus much more. Also half of Wolverhampton too. I have a fairly conprehensive list of what they own, sadly the Burlington has been sold and is not a Hortons' Estate property any more.

Ellbrown - the hotel stretched a long way, from one side of what is now the ramp, right along to about Temple Street, but yes, where the shiny frontage is now. I know which I prefer, but then I am a dinosaur. The station and hotel may have been designed by E A Cowper, but the glass roof is...

Ellbrown - No, The Grand Hotel is not a station hotel, the station was a few yards down the road, not behind or above it. The Grand was built circa 1880 - owned by the same person, Isaac Horton, who started his business life as a pig breeder, then butcher, then property magnate. Hortons'...

Viv - I am sure there was artistic license used, and possibly the reason the other buildings were not featured is that the postcard was only to publicise the Queens, not anything else, and may even have been drawn from an artists impression during the planning stage. The entrance to the...

The Queens Hotel was what is now the building(s) on the left hand side of this photo of Stephenson Street. I don't remember anything but a sign saying 'Queen's Hotel', nothing about North Western Hotel at all. The last time I remember using the station was in June 1963, I think it was...

Viv - I remember this, but I don't remember it looking quite so large and quite so grand, however, I was born long after 1918. You got to it, and the entrance to the station, along the bit of road that is Stephenson Street, then it turned a corner (still same street name I think). I used to go...

I agree Sue, too many places to be honest! I have found a rule of thumb - if before 1870 you have a slightly better chance in a churchyard, after that, cemeteries largely took over. I know a lot of the cemetery opening and closing dates by heart now, and the churches are coming along nicely...

Lodge Hill was not open by then Sue, it was opened in 1895. Queen's Hospital was in Bath Row, so it could be John Norton was buried at St Thomas in Bath Row (closed 1914). Edgbaston might be worth a try, too.

I agree Sylvia - we have become a nation of scruffs by and large. I noticed just how clean and crisp everything looked in this clip, made me feel quite nostalgic. There was a lot about the 1960's to like, especially the fact that we were young!!