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Hi Clive...Re your ref to Fire Station Passage or Fire Engine Passage....Maybe this photo is pertinent..? Den

Some more pics of that Pub.......now and then.......

It was called the ELITE Lyn......here's a couple of nice pics.....never used it....always used the Era, just a bit further down the road....

This might help...High Street, Brum.....

Nice one Vivvy! Cheers...

OK, this may be a forlorn request, but you lot never usually let me down…I was reading Eliezer Edwards’ ‘The Old Taverns of Birmingham’, and in his final chapter, he devotes it to a real Tavern oldie, The Cross Pistols in Slaney Street. Now I was fascinated by his description of this hostelry...

Well yes...Norton Court was built same time as new Matty ..1968...it just housed Nurses, Docs and other workers...no other admin or medical uses....it gradually adopted some Hospital functions, but not many that I can recall...I left in 1997.....hope this helps....

Genius!!

Right...a bit of a mystery wrapped in a conundrum.....I live quite near one of our favourite eating places, the Bulls Head, Meriden....and have gathered a few pics of this place over the years....and understand that it changed identity and postion over the years..starting out as Darlaston Hall...

Brilliant sleuthing folks..as per! Cheers a bunch..

Fascinating looking business in Fazeley Street....anyone any info on it.....location, business etc...??

Sorry boys...but another memory Dai Thomas... One of the largest , literally, was my first form master, D.I.”Dai” Thomas. A big Welsh sod straight from a Dylan Thomas novel. A gifted History Master, with latent homicidal tendencies towards us English, but tempered with enough of a dry...

OK....thanks....i can see it now...Great stuff....

Just see this pic posted by old Graham Knight (O.C on here yonks ago), I think from Faces and Places magazine if 1889.....and looking down towards Town Hall, there is a large domed, Cathedral-like building on the right....anyone know what it was? Or am I being thick, as per.....

My notes... ….an excerpt for my school diaries… Equally ancient and also profoundly deaf was old Len ‘Soss’ Hollingworth, another of the old pre-war guard. Named after a well-known brand of sausage manufacturers of the day, Soss took science and was also a closet train spotter. Being so deaf it...

Some more stuff to ponder... MAPLELEHURST and SCONE COTTAGE Maplehurst was a complete mystery to me, despite living in Church Road for the last 49 years. It was where the shops and houses are, opposite the Bank and School Buildings at the Yew Tree ….and in those days (1920s) next to Scone...

Some pics...hope they help...

Same here...I will ignore it...! Thanks again....and keep this amazing Historical Encyclopaedia going for posterity....NOTHING else comes close...Regards.

Oh YES.... Cheers mike....now I can ask the audience about the mysterious St Johns Market?

HELP! I have had this lovely map of the City for some time, but have forgotton who produced or drew it, and the year it is supposed to represent....? Anyone put me out of my misery? And another thing...on the map is marked St John's Market...??? ..cant find any other ref to it...anyone...