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And I think the restriction on turbans lasted until much later.

The Civic Centre, now known as Baskerville House, is no longer council property but I know that the Lord Mayor's Parlour is in that building while the Council House is closed.

I know this is going off topic but I am wondering when mobile numbers will run out. My sister's organisation has just completed a new building programme and have two security gates which have intercom connection to the reception desk. It turns out that they both have SIM cards as they are not...

Yes you are right 0CO3, my mistake. I need to ask a friend who lives in Coventry about the Toll Bar code. Talking of Bristol 0BR2, did you know that if you dialled OBSCENITY on your phone you used to get the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

Again looking at my 1964 timetable there were only a few services showing 109 From Sutton to Perry Barr Saturdays at 1.53pm, 2.53pm, 3.53pm, 4.53pm & 5.53pm and every day at 10.45pm. Services from Perry Barr to Sutton are shown as 107 not 109 From Boldmere to Birmingham High Street (NOTE not...

Have just dug out my 1964 timetable book. The X99 and the 110 went the same route from Birmingham to Tamworth via Sutton with the X99 continuing on to Nottingham. I did that journey once with a five shilling Child's Anywhere Ticket in the days when I travelled all over the Midlands by Midland...

Did the X99 to Nottingham also run through Sutton?

The RY usually means Railway so this could be a railway forwarding agent/warehouse as it is next to the former Soho Road Station. An old photo from the opposite direction. Photo taken from Warwickshire Railways website

I agree that the photo was taken from the Fire Station. A view from Halfords would have been towards the street to the left of Corporation Street whose name I have forgotten but which is now under the Queensway.

I remember the All Figure phone numbers coming in during the mid 1960s. The adverts publicising the change feature a lady call ANN (All Numbers Now). At that time I was phoning customers in the East Midlands and was perfectly happy with 0NO2 Nottingham, 0NO4 Northampton, 0LE3 Leicester 0DE2...

Pauline Welcome to the Forum and hope you get much pleasure from it. For the Tower Ballroom there is a thread with many memories here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/tower-ball-room.11048/ I understand that it is now being demolished.

Bombing during WWII was far from accurate especially in 1940/41. I think in the early days of the war the RAF regarded 5 miles as a near miss. I was told at one local history seminar that I attended that there was a massive shadow factory underground at Longbridge and when it was explored...

My guess is the M________AND RAILWAY would mean Midland Railway which is the company which owned that line pre 1923. Subsequently it would have been the London Midland and Scottish Railway although the Midland Railway name would have continued to be used for many years.

I would suggest the Birmingham Archive at the Library for Birmingham. I have deposited some plans of the bedroom floors of the Queens Hotel and the rating plans of the Midland Railway Central Goods station (Holliday Street) with them.

I understand that the O'Nions is the correct pronunciation even if spelled Onions.

I do not know if it is still in place but the Ffestiniog/Welsh Highland Railways at Porthmadoc claimed to have the largest Strowger exchange still working in the UK for their internal telephones.

In recent years House of Fraser had a bar on the first floor which I have used a few times. Sandwiches and light meals were available. I think the store is still open from comments on the Rackhams thread but I have not been in for years

The Square Peg, A pub/restaurant along the Corporation Street frontage. Most of the rest of that block now HM Courts Service.

Hope this helps. The old railways overlaid on the modern Google Maps. Also shows the Corporation tramlines. I have centred the map on the approx N/S line of Nechells Place & Devon St. Dark Blue - LNWR, Yellow - Midland Rlwy, Magenta - Corp Tramways

I have just checked the timetables. West Midlands Railways used to run a couple of trains from Worcester to Birmingham New Street over this line on Saturdays. presumably just to maintain the drivers' route knowledge. I see these are no longer included.