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Mike. That map in post #2 is interesting in that, for a time, we lived in Brunswick Road. From memory, number 103. On the posted map, going NW from White Street, and count 12+ residencies, there is an alleyway, which actually branched to the rear of adjoining properties. On the right of the...

Thanks. That's even further away.:(

Where has it moved to? I used to go there in the Spring to buy Bedding Plants. Mega-cheap.:)

We were in a shop in Brittany last week. A shop specialising in English foods and they had precisely that. Also Golden Syrup cake.

Here we go again!:) I see mention has been made of the Methodist Church on Moseley Road. Local knowledge is this is/was the home of the 10th Birmingham Boys' Brigade. The two people from Smethwick and Aston. They could have been Officers? Do they have age differences relative to the others...

Getting back to the subject of the Grand Union Canal, there was once a 'coal yard' (later to become Evesons's Fuels - I think) on the 'bend' in Lincoln Road and looking from the Lincoln Road North road bridge, to their wharf, there was sos much overspill of coal into the canal that it would have...

Didn't it become the Bowling Rink in Westley Road? Of those photo's from Phil, I can seen our old Cafe in the first and third.

Small World. For a time, I think in the late 50's, my parents owned the Cafe on the corner of Olton Croft and I also went to Acocks Green School. Was there a Greenhouse down the bottom of the garden? I think I once through a ball through one of the panes of glass.:(

For many decades, in the Police Force (I'll refrain from using the word 'service'), if you got 'injured on duty' then you would get full pay until, either one was fit, or Pensioned off. Then, I think, sometime in the 90's, it all changed. Working from memory, for six months, full pay, then...

Sorry you feel that way and a shame that it got to that stage. I've heard many stories of where there are both 'employed' and 'volunteer' staff where the volunteer has been told, "You can't do that. That's [name of employee]'s job." In some ways I can understand that. The employee is there to...

I can remember that shop that sold Horse meat. It was actually on the Town side of the end of Stoney Lane before the Stoney Lane/Highgate Road junction was changed. I also, was taken by my parents by car to Lowsonford, where I had to sit outside with a soft drink and await a pie.:) I went back...

If I remember correctly, there may have been a 'holding cell' at Hay Mill, as there was in the converted house at Stechford. Essentially, just a cupboard type room with a steel 'gate'. The 'cell blocks' at the time were at Acocks Green, Bordesley Green, and Coventry Road (Small Heath). Hope...

Birmingham City was one of the only, if not the only, Forces to use a Duplex VHF radio system. The difference being that transmission and reception were on different frequencies and audio could be heard or interrupted even when transmitting. Much like one would use a telephone. This changed...

Cadbury No. 1 became the first operating loco at the GWSR (Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway). https://www.gwsr.com/enthusiasts/History/Cadbury.html Seemingly, it is now in an unrestored state at Tyseley. I can remember, in the late 60's, visiting the sewerage works at Lea Hall...

By 1955 Frank and Ivy were at Flat 3, 123 Vauxhall Road. That would be those hideous flats that the built there. The next entry is for the Adelaide Arms which I am presuming is the pub on the bend at the top of Duddeston (was it Mill or Manor?) Road.

1950 Electoral Roll shows Frank and Ivy M Ruck, along with Annie Ruck (shown as the lead name - head of household/mother of Frank? Possibly), at 122 Rupert Street.

Of those, Norman G Smith, b Q4, 1926, seems a distinct possibility.

Looking at those first two photo's, the 6 foot (the space between opposing tracks) looks rather large. Was this Station ever part of Brunel's 7 foot gauge in the same way as Bishop's Lydeard was?

Not my area of expertise as I am more Carriage Maintenance/Restoration but, with a Tank engine, probably not much, except in terms of a [maximum] speed limit. As for Tender engines. Definately differences as to maximum speed limts and also visibility, particularly with the larger Merchant Navy...

Checking Electoral Register for 1955, and Google Maps, it seems they were at 207 Station Road, Stechford.