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So it was down to very poor management decisions on a huge scale by the sound of it, and the sad fact is that these managers are sometimes rewarded for failure by getting massive golden goodbye handshakes.

Why did all these great companies like GEC, Lucas etc just disappear ? Was it that much bigger companies took them over and the original products they produced become redundant as technology moved on ?

I always thought that the Festival Football League was formed from the 1951/52 season onwards following the Festival Of Britain exhibition which opened on the 4th of May 1951 in London. Yet I've seen on the internet various dates for when the league started. One site says 1999 but another...

My wife's grandmother worked in service for the Kunzles when they lived at Ley Hill, and she said that their son killed himself by jumping out of the window. It was all hushed up apparently and he is buried at St Leonards church Frankley. Christian Kunzle also started the 'Give A Girl Health'...

Not that I'm suspicious or anything but it seemed to be the practise back then to make teenage boys/young men swim naked. The wag who wished that there was mixed bathing would have been disappointed. That's because there were totally seperated pools and changing rooms for males and females...

Hi Steve, You've made some very good points. Who would be bothered to save any photos when they were seen as of no interest and only took up space ? Thankfully, yourself and one two others managed to save a lot of them. Apparently, something similar happened when Mason College, next to the...

Hi Steve, Thanks for your informative reply and as you say,if they had been stored somewhere else then it's likely the lot would have been binned. But actually, couldn't someone, perhaps yourself, have asked the planning department if you could take the lot ? Or was there the usual...

Hi Steve, A very late reply, more of an enquiry actually, but were all the photos rescued from the planning department, or was it too late. It's unbelievable that the whole lot would have all been thrown away but for your and others efforts to save them. Well done !

Have you tasted their chocolate lately ? Not a patch on what it used to be like, and I have a long memory. Perhaps the royals have noticed the same thing.

Hi Peter, Yes, it was "Astoness" who I believe is one of the site's administrators, and she told me the last edition of the Brummagem magazine was december 2018.

Thanks for that info.

Hi Peter, What date was the last edition of Carl's 'Brummagem Magazine' please ? I convinced myself that I'd seen it on sale in W.H. Smith about 6 months ago, but I've since discovered that it finished way before that. Many thanks, Trev.

I think Birmingham rugby club started out as Northfield rugby club but changed their name. They used to play in Barron Rd, Northfield but sold the ground for a housing development. With the considerable about of money this raised, they built a brand new large clubhouse with 3/4 pitches at...

I went to Ley Hill School aged 8 when it first opened in September 1954, and left aged 11 in 1957. The head teacher was named Derek Wright who was a real vicious bully. He would knock seven bells out of kids for the slightest reason. First teacher I had was Miss Wheeler and then Mr Wills for...

Quite a story Bob, you were obviously the adventurous type !

Is it still possible to visit 'The Girls Grounds' or is it now overgrown and a wilderness ?

The Wellington pub was my dad's local until our family moved to Northfield in 1954 - I was 8 at the time. It was on the corner of BSW and Wellesley Street and we lived at No 3 'Cottage Row' further up towards Villa St. It comprised of 10 houses and was next to St Saviours Church where myself...

This is great news Steve and well done for rescuing these valuable photos of Birmingham. Did you save them all did you say, or were some thrown away before you had chance to save them ?

Hi Lyn, I've just done a bit of internet research and you're right. It was a by-election in 1969 caused by the death of the sitting Labour MP for Ladywood, and Wallace Lawler won it for the Liberals. But he only lasted a year because in the 1970 general election, Doris Fisher won it back for...

Are you sure this is Farm St 1969 ? I thought most of that area had been demolished by then, and unless this is a by-election, there were general elections in 1964, 1966, and 1970.