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Theres a local History Soc. in Kingsbury. You never know, worth asking....... https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/communit.nsf/6b4419bd05013898802569b9005944e7/672dd9a54b821efe80256a7f00332fd6?OpenDocument

Re: re-smith Garrison street You might find this interesting, I have no idea why its on my hard drive, looks like it came off ebay though.

Heres a couple of pics. The Wales building is - I think - visible on the left of Motormans picture. If I'm right, the left han side of the building became Preece's Ironmongers. The Bingo hall - Jones and Sturdy I think it was called, was at the junction of Muntz St.

Were'nt there a couple of kids abducted and left tied up in the woods for a few days by a teenage girl with 'Problems' in the early days of Chelmsley Wood, around 1968 69 ?

My first job was for a firm called View Well on Dudley Rd ( no. 504 I think ). Almost next to, and partly above Woolworths. By any chance has anyones got a Photo of that bit of Dudley Rd, or of the Woolworths etc.

Should have gone to Specsavers.........:D

I reckon its probably here, roughly same shot from Google Earth.

'the old man went and rented one from a tv shop on the aston cross yards from the goldencross pub where he worked and a couple of doors a way from the aston cross libary' That sounds like Boyds of Bond St.

Yeah, I see your point, but there was a 'wing' that ran out at right angles, at the edge of the infants playground, which could be what I think looks like a house on the right. There was also a factory behind that, made Lawnmowers I think Take look at this, its changed a lot of course, but...

I'm sure thats Tilton Rd School, taken across the wastground from around the middle of Templefield St. Note the railings around the Playfround on the roof, cant have been many of those about P.S. I reckon during winter as well. LOL

Heres tho only Bolton Rd pic I have, you might find it interesting. not sure where it came from.

St basils was the home of the Double Zero, a bikers club in the 60's.Researching that might help...........

For anyone interested, there is, or at least was 4 or 5 years ago, a WW1 memorial of the same type as the Greenway St one, inside St Aidans Church. It has Soldiers from Regents park Rd etc listed, including my Granfather. Not sure but I think St Aidans has been renamed, possibly as All Saints.

Always glad and proud to see a Birmingham Invention. I did notice his accent last night though.

Try 'Birmingham...The Sinister Side by Steve Jones. First 15 or 20 pages re slum housing, the rest is entertaining if nothing else. According to it St Marys Ward was the worst place turn of the century, anybody got any idea where it was ?

looks like bath row to me. 1950s plans ?

jean morton ?

Not reall a Shampoo, but it might amuse, might even work...........

Not a pub, but sold beer cheap when it was a Bingo Hall in the 80s

Selly Oak Boy. A few years ago. Pre Internet anyway, while trying to research my grandfather, I found a book in the central library local history dep't entitled something like 'The Great War, Those Who Served - Those Who Fell' which listed soldiers from Birmingham. In it there was a short...