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The main event in August 1957 was held in Sutton Park but there were satellite camping sites around the Birmingham area for British scouts.

I am trying to workout where that Harborne canal scene would have been painted. My guess is that it would possibly be near Stonehouse Lane in what is now called Old Quarry Park where the Dudley No. 2 Canal emerged from the Lapal Tunnel. That is assuming that St Peter's church would have been...

I know this is not Birmingham but I thought it would be of interest to see how changing from manual to automatic was described back in 1934. Taken from the Didcot Railway Centre Facebook page. What is interesting was that even if you make an automatic call from within Paddington Station you...

Checking the 1885/87 map. the Edgbaston Assembly Rooms were in Francis Road at the junction with Hagley Road.

The numbers were allocated to areas of the city. Central Birmingham had numbers in the 200 and 600 series allowing CEN and MID to keep their numbers North East Birmingham had numbers in the 300 series South West Birmingham had numbers in the 400 series allowing HAR to keep it numbers North West...

I was brought up in Oldbury where the canals were always open. People treated the towpaths as any other footpath so if that was the most convenient route then that was the way people walked. I was surprised to find that in Birmingham the canals were all sealed off with just Gas Street as the...

The city centre was split between CENtral and MIDland with I think CITy and COLmore as overflow exchanges. My parents were on BEArwood and my first home on my own was on WOOdgate which was actually Quinton but there was no Q on the old dials.

Not Birmingham but I thought it would be interesting Names of London telephone exchanges

Number of photos of the Harborne Room in the V & A https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10987/panelled-room-from-the-grove-room-chamberlain-john-henry/?carousel-image=2010EG9804

Very Interesting. Do you know where it is now. One room from the Grove has been reconstructed in the V & A in London. Grove House was in what is now Grove Park, Harborne. Just being pedantic but in 1877 Harborne was in Staffordshire not Warwickshire.

I think Uncle Holly was exclusive to Lewis's which in those days included Selfridges.

Photo of 2 Charles Road from 2011 is available on Google Maps Street View. Although 133 Stamford Road exists it appears that a photo of it is not available on Google. Looks like the driver of the camera car went round by Stamford Grove and forgot to backtrack along Stamford Road.

The original Railway Police were the signallers. That is why signallers are always addressed as Bobby whatever their real names.

I am extremely annoyed as my ticket reads as a perfectly valid admission ticket. There is no mention on it to say that it is a lottery or ballot ticket. This is a complete misdescription but I have no idea what we can do about it. As we have not lost any money, there is no point in complaining...

I had not realised that Handsworth Grammar had joined the King Edwards Schools and changed its name in 2017. My late father went to Handsworth Grammar.

I had not realised that Handsworth Grammar had joined the King Edwards Schools and changed its name in 2017. My late father went to Handsworth Grammar.

As this thread has just been revived after 10 years, I thought I would just comment that Juxta is Latin for 'next to' so Aston Next To does required the place it is next to be named. So the place name should read Aston next to Birmingham to distinguish from the many other Astons.

A small correction. The 74 to Dudley took the Soho Road route. It was the 87 which took the Dudley Road route.

I remember watching a film in which an American western town bought a school mail order and when they built it, it turned out to be a chapel. Anyway perhaps we should stop as we are going off topic here.

Had a couple of scam emails lately claiming to offer £100 vouchers for McDonald's. This is particularly dangerous as it is obviously aimed a youngsters who would not possibly be so scam savvy. Both were sent from Italian email addresses.