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Sakura, (post 35), how far up or down Soho Road was Martin's the florist in those days? Maybe someone has a snap of that section of highway. Anyway, here's the cherry on the cake, The...

Here's a photograph of the Regal Handsworth in more daily surroundings. The year is 1937 https://special.st-andrews.ac.uk/saspecial/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=zoom&key=WczoxMDoiSGFuZHN3b3J0aCI7&pg=9 Programme showing on the day, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Shall We Dance?"

On Stitcher's "Another Old Pub" thread within the past 24 hours post 172 shows us the next-door-to-the-right pub on Islington Row shown here. Maybe just one shop or two missing inbetween.

Am I right in thinking in photo post 172 that The Crusader pub is in that position now? Or has that gone by now to maybe?

There's also parked up one of those Scammell-type parcel carrier vehicles-was this the type we were searching for a couple of years ago regarding the markets? If only the woman crossing (centre) would get out of the way a bit, we might be able to read the number plate!

The last days of the original alignment of Snow Hill, from the bottom looking upwards. The two-way road has now become a downward two-lane highway, with Lloyd House on the left a new construction. This original downward dual carriageway became a cul-de-sac serving as a lower entry into Snow Hill...

If one looks at the top of the newsagent's buildings there can be seen the 'Sunday Mercury' banner with the AUTHORISED name of the seller printed on it. Think this was a legal requirement in those days to distinguish licensed sellers of newspapers and tobbaco?

Lyn, if its any use the Vauxhall Victor "F" type-which this is-was first produced in the UK in 1957 until the next Vauxhall Victor series started 4 years later, although this particular model could have been roadworthy for several years afterwards. What you could do is claim the vehicle is...

..considering the Ford Consul Zephyr in the garage wasn't invented until the 1950's!

Note photo lost Regarding the market photograph of 1937 that Mike Jee stated was the Bull Ring location, front on the left doesn't that look like the soon-to-be Queen (later Queen Mother) the way the gloves and smart handbag are carried in stately fashion? Maybe she's come incognito to put a...

https://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-09081973-beaufort-cinema-ward-end-birmingham/MediaEntry/19710.html Full technicolour short video of the Beaufort exterior shortly before closure. From the "MACE" archive. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/34547 More comprehensive history...

Vivienne-that post no 35 is amazing!! It is like the Market Hall is sullenly awaiting its fate but in my mind is pondering a fightback against the modern encroachment..

Lyn, our friends over on Skyscraper City have just alerted us to a couple of new videos on Youtube. Via the Birmingham Conservation Trust there are a wealth of Snow Hill Station pictures on this link here:- https://birminghamconservationtrust.org/2011/08/13/1950s-film-of-birmingham/ You will...

Is this the same Acorn I that introduced you to the Daily Mirror archive with some months ago, Lyn? It looks quite huge from the outside!

Can't open it either. Maybe its the water here in Wolverhampton?

All we need is someone to go up to the Local Studies section on what days they are still open and check out the newspapers for 1962 on microfilm. Is that facility still going with all the upheavals?

There you go Big Gee, an original 1958 poster for the film. Its in the American title of the film; the British poster might have differed but rare to track down and compare though.

Courtesy of the CinemaTreasures website, a brand new photograph of the Villa Cross cinema has appeared this past weekend. Correctly dated 1943 or soon after. https://cinematreasures.org/photos/18370

About six months ago (Jan 20, 2011 -post # 370 to be exact) Dennis Williams introduced us to the forlorn sight of the Crown on the corner of Bath St/Snow Hill in the process of demolition. Reproduced with thanks here. I have now discovered a later photograph of the same location, now...