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Mike, I think you would be very unlikely to find any records going back to 1941 as the importance of archives was not recognised until more recent times. I remember once being asked by a security organisation about an employee of the company I was working for about someone who had shown on his...

This version of Body and Soul by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, which I think I prefer, was released after her death. At that time it also made Tony Bennett to oldest person to appear in the American charts.

Also the city council realised that if they used it as a bus station they would lose it to the WMPTE without compensation so they kept it as part of Paradise Circus.

YMCA has been getting quite a lot of airing over the last few weeks in the US. Trump was trying to dance to it during his election rallies and then when he lost, the Biden supporters were singing and dancing to it in celebration.

You won't be too disappointed then if I point out that the news report was dated 1st August and things have happened since then so the trip has been cancelled

The first tour that I can see for this train that will be calling at Birmingham stations will be Saturday 23rd January 2021. This will start at Birmingham International, next stop Tame Bridge Parkway which means that it will take the Stetchford-Aston Line avoiding Birmingham city centre stations.

We have seen that photo before and I think the consensus view was late 1930s.

The side door that you mention was the bike sheds. In my day they were absolutely full of bikes, the whole length of that path way and even bikes propped up against the wall. As first and second formers that was our entrance entrance to the school to our form rooms in the 'New Wing' built...

The old pavilion that you mention would have been the King Edwards Five Ways pavilion before they moved to Bartley Green. When we played them at rugby we never used their pavilion but used our own and walked across to their pitch when we were playing away and they did the same when we were at home.

I think the whole site was due to be rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme but they ran out of money. I think it was the infants school which was built on the Girls playing field. The Portland Road entrance was, I think, the entrance for the King Edwards playing field...

Did not spot the chimney. It was behind the tower. Could be that the tower was a water tower. On a much larger scale this was the water tower for the former Holymoor Mental Hospital

As I understand it, it was disguising the chimney for the central heating furnace. This was a common feature in Victorian and Edwardian school and other local authority buildings. As I remember it from my days at the school it was actually in the primary school playground and I think the...

I thought that the intro music was absolutely classic Ink Spots even had I not known it was them.

I spent some time trying to work that out myself but decided to post anyway.

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I worked for Shell-Mex and BP Ltd at Five Ways in the second half of the 1960s. I think it was about a year or so after the move to Five Ways that I started as most of the rest of my work colleagues still spoke about Bennett's Hill as a very recent move.

And now they are leaving pianos in railway stations for people to play.

It is a bollard on the corner of Hagley Road and Vicarage Road. Looks like concrete but at that time could be carved stone.

1907 was the year that The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Ltd (The Midland Red), in spite of their name gave up on motor buses and went back to horse buses. This is a post card from 1911 taken at the same place when Midland Red went back to motor buses but you can see a horse bus...

I see that Winifred Atwell is described as 'The Queen of Honky Tonk'. My parents, who were both pianists, a skill that I never inherited, were not impressed with her playing.