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Look out for this next Monday 14th June at 18.15. A Talk on the History of the Midland Red by Roger Torode to the Friends of the London Transport Museum. The video will remain avialable on You Tube if you cannot see it at the time...

Actually it was well known that the CM5T, the first motorway coach could do 100 mph on the motorway. They used to do Birmingham to London in 2 hours 15 minutes and that was before the M6 was built so they went on the A45 Coventry ByPass and the M45. There was the notorious incident when 4 of...

I remember the Midland Red parcel service although I never used it but did once or twice see parcels under the stairs. I used to collect timetable books and in the details it said tht you could use the bus to post a letter in the nearest large town. You handed the stamped letter to the conductor...

1970 was before my time of using the Grand Hotel so I do not remember this crockery. But it does show how many times the hotel has been closed and for what long periods it has been closed. It would have been 1979, the time I was at one of their previous grand reopennings

My post was a warning about a type of internet scam. It was not intended to be political. I repeat the warning beware of any webpages where boxes might have been prechecked with a tick.

Just a note for you. Castle Road School did become Lightwoods School sometime in the early 1960s. Lightwoods have now taken over the St Hubert's School building as an annex and St Hubert's have moved to a new building in Moat Road on the site of the old Oldbury Grammar.

This would be to give some help at night during the black out.

Actually the trams on the Soho Road stopped running in 1939. During the war all the signposts were taken away. This probably also applied to the destination signs on the tram shelters. This was when there was a fear that German paratroops could land in the centre of Birmingham and get on a no...

I was driving through there a few days ago and was thinking, I am sure there used to be a subway here. This is the Google Street View today with no sign that there ever was a subway there. Question is, how do pedestrians cross the road? It is a long walk either up or down the hill.

I have spoken to my friend who says that he does not remember when the current building was built as he was working for Lloyds Bank in an office they had in Brindley Place but he used to go to meetings around about 2000 in Colmore Row. He was the one who told me that the part of the building now...

I have managed to find a photo of the 1960s Lloyds Bank Colmore Row but do not yet have a date when this was demolished. You may need to click on the picture to see it properly.

Maurice. Actually Westminster Bank was in the blank space on the map that Mikejee posted on the corner of Colmore Row and Newhall Street. It was then replaced by the NatWest Tower which during the past two years has also been demolished and replaced with another tower block. I have not been in...

I have had 5 calls in two days, the first at 8.00am on Monday claiming to be from Amazon thanking me for my order and if I did not cancel it they will ship me an iPhone 7 costing £300+, I did not bother to remember the exact amount. I am still waiting for the iPhone that I did not order. There...

Have just received a text message claiming to be from Lloyds telling me that an unknown device had been paired with my account and that if it was not me then I should contact a web address. I do not have a Lloyds account. I then looked at the link address which ended in .me. The Me domain allows...

I have just come across this thread having made a reference to Davenports on another thread so I am posting this link. http://www.davenports.co.uk/about-us/vintage-tv-ads/ I apologise if this link has been given before as i said I have just come across it. If you go to the link you will find...

Yes there is a part 2 but very difficult to find. I have not watched that yet but I thought it would be easy to find as I was offered it immediately after watching the first part. If you go to http://www.davenports.co.uk/about-us/vintage-tv-ads/ you will find several of the old cinema/TV ads and...

Have just been watching an old film about the history of Davenports Brewery It covers the story of the time in WWII showing the practice evacuations to the air raid shelter. It said that 4-500 people sheltered there at night and that there was a first aid post open day and night staffed by...

Many thanks Viv, I am passing that information on to my friend.

Viv Do you have any information about the location of Lloyds Bank at that time. A friend of mine has an old cheque drawn on Lloyds Bank Ann Street Birmingham and we were wondering if it was at the location next to Eden Place which became Lloyds Bank Colmore Row. David

I flew from the old terminal a few times in the 1970s and early 1980s but most of my international flights in those days I made by driving to Heathrow. The new terminal openned in 1984 and since then all my flights have been from Birmingham except for a couple from Gatwick.