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My uncle Sydney Edwards worked at G.E.C. Witton in the 1930s, 40s and early 50. I don't know which department but I remember he used to build his own radios in the early 1930s, so I presume he worked in some technical area of the company. He always dressed in a suit, i also remember he was an...

Just found this site. My mother worked at Johny Wrights in the 1920s before she married. She soldered small components together using a large soldering iron which was heated by a gas ring, the solder was a stick about 10 inches long apparently, which was dipped in a tin of "Flux" which helped...

Hi WendyP, I lived in Bridge Road off the top end of Bowyer Road from 1942 until 1951 (with a break for National Service)but my parents were there until about 1954. Prior to moving there we lived in Rupert St. Nechells. From December 1951, like Dick Whittington I went to London to seek my...

Thanks Phil and Dek for posting the photos, now it is proved i am officialy old !! Cheers Reg

Hi Folk, I must be getting confused, I thought that the building that is 189 -193 Alum Rock Road was M&S pre war, but I can't remember Woolworths. It must be something to do with getting old. regards Reg. P.S. I tried to reply last night but i don't know where the message got to.

There used to be a Marks & Spencer Store on the right just before Bowyer Road when the maximum price was 4 shillings and 11 pence the building is still there, looking at "Google " street view, regards Reg, Roverman

Re: nechells park rd shops Just come across this thread. Shops I remember before the war, Wimbushs' Nechells"Green" cake shop, sold lovely cream cakes, turn left into Nechells Park Rd, traditional grocery shop not sure of the name maybe Masons, weighed the sugar into blue paper bags, cut the...

Thanks for your reply Corrosionist. It is amazing how ones memory is jogged when discovering all the various Birmingham History Threads. I remember "Kenny" getting a brandnew "Halfords" bike for his birthday, it had real lights back and front run from a Dynamo!!!. 120 Rupert St. was right next...

Hi "Archierod".My Grandmother lived at 62, Trevor Street and on Saturday afternoons she cleaned the offices at Postans Paints, this was in the 1930s, somtimes my Mother went to help her and if my Father who worked shifts was working I had to go with her, I remember sitting at rhe desks...

Hi Folk, Just found the Nechells thread. I lived in Rupert Street pre war(WWII that is) the Rocky Lane end, I attended Cromwell Street School, Infants and Juniors and later Charles Arthur Street school. There was an Ansells Off licence on the corner of Rocky Lane and Rupert Street from which I...

Having been introduced to the Cinema thread two or three days ago from the Gosta Green to Duddeston site, I have had a very pleasant trip down a very long Memory Lane visiting many of the "Picture Houses" of my childhood and youth in the 1930s and 40s,thanks to everyone who have posted the...

Hi Dek, I remember the Morris Comercial Club, I went there with my dad to watch a wrestling match during the war. Reg

Hi Dek, The Coleseum was on the left as you turned right into Nechells Place off Saltley Viaduct almost opposite the old Saltley gasworks entrance, the Grand was in Alum Rock Road past the Highfield Road/Boyer Road junction. If you look at Google Street view and travel along Alum Rock Road...

Hi Phil, thanks for pointing me in the direction of the "Cinema" forum, have just spent two hours traveling down memory lane. Regards Reg me

Hi Phil, Thanks for posting the photographs of the Coleseum, Rock and Grand cinemas, I remember well going to the childrens matiees pre war at the Coleseum, seeing Robin Hood Starring Errol Flynn at the Rock and Dangerous Moonlight At The Grand. Regards Reg

Thanks Shedman for posting the photographs of Saltley also to Phil for the photograph of the Rock Pub. In 1943 I lived in Bridge Road at the top of Bowyer Road and I used to pass the Rock on my way to Leigh Road school, off Washwood Heath Road. During the War tanks travelled down Bowyer Road...

I also think it is Miller Street, the Overhead Dept was opposite the tram Depot, noticing the tram lines comining from the direction where the trams were. I went there many times with my father. Regards Roverman

Re the buses at the Kingstanding terminus. My father worked for B.C.T. first as a trainee mechanic then as a bus driver during the late 20's and early 30's and apparently he was on the Kingstanding route at times.In 1930 the year I was born, my mother and father and my brother lived at Tansley...

Hi Phil, Thanks for posting the photo of the "Civic" radio shop, looking at the car parked outside(1950's Morris Oxford) it would have been taken around the time I was working for Civic. Regards "Roverman"