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Same pics and characters are in 'Birmingham the sinister side' which has been around for a few years now.

Not the corner of Hurst St, with The Australian Bar on the corner is it ?

Is this a clue...? Not sure exactly where, but Standard Sweets ( the ones in jars ) had a depot if not a factory, in a side street off Stratford Rd. Somewhere around Sparkbrook, between Mole St and Erasmus Rd, so not far from the BSA. Only remember it cos in the mid 60s my mates brother used...

It was a dark and stormy night, the wind was howling round our ship. The captain said to one of his men, I'll tell you a tale, and it goes like this. It was a dark and stormy night, the wind was howling round our ship. The captain said to one of his men, I'll tell you a tale, and it goes like...

Oh I see now. Mine are as in posts 15 & 19, not a Lees in sight.

Truebrit. Im not sure what you mean by family names following each other. But just noticed post #7 mentions Wm Lees in Bell barn Rd, I do know that my G G & my G Grandfathers had some connections in Bell Barn Rd, Possibly owning a shop there mid 1800s. As My G G Grandfather also owned about...

Could be a connection between the trades, My G G Grandfather was a Scale Beam Maker, seems to have run in the family, but in later years was a weighing machine manufacturer. Course it could have just been that he was feeling posh. lol But beam scales did die out at some time, and scales with...

If I remember right, there was an upstairs room in the Daddy where the girls were only friendly with each other-if you get my drift. Was a good craic in there though. It had another name before that (around 1976) but I cant remember what it was.

yeah, the manky old gas fire stuck in my mind as well, and the wooden partition that you had to ait by when it was your turn next. it was where the Nurse/receptionist hung out, all the old buff medical records were stored in there. Docs Bowen & Jones were quire old, or at least seemed to be to...

Was a rule there in the 70s. Dont think it was really anything to do woth the rasta's wooly hats though, there was a Reggae room in there as well as the cabaret and rock rooms.

Its not just us old fogies. I loved the old Science Museum when I was a kid. I took my 12 year old Daughter to the Think Tank 4 or 5 years ago, she wasnt really impressed with it, nor was I, its more set up for school trips than for a casual browse like the old one was. Took her to the open...

Your thinking of Irene or maybe Eileen Short, I think she left Tilton Rd while still in the juniors

All foriegn to me, pictures are spooky though.

About ten years ago I did some work at the UKAEA at Harwell, they have or had a display case filled with things like Radioactve corsets - yeah really - and Radioactive soda syphons, even fishing floats. Thats probably where I heard about it, they didnt mention that they had been fined though...

Werent Trimphones 'quietly' withdrawn by the GPO cos somebody eventually realised that the handsets were becoming radioactivedue to their proximity to the lumious dial ?

I'm not so sure. From these pictures it seems like its either a different pub, or it was altered a lot. I used it quite oftem myself around 1972/73 and come to think of it, the narrower doorway, and the frotages being bigger looks more like it. Also on the picture we already had, it looks...

Bit before my time, but does this help ?

I have that picture on my hard drive with the file name Small Arms, Muntz St. Got no idea where I got it from though.

didnt know it was ever covered over, last time I went there must have been around 1975 though

Somebody asked me about a year ago, and like Dek Carr I thought I knew the terraced houses. Your other one looks familiar for some reason, but I dunno where it is. Pity you cant read the company name on the telly shop.