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Someone has sent me these ,still no real answer though. Looks like its been a mystery for yonks. Sorry theyre in the wrong order, couldnt work out how to re arrange em.

Usd to put strange and unconnected acts on the same bill, if i remember right they had T Rex on the same bill as Ravi Shankar once. This would have been around 73. Wonder what all those screaming 12 year old girlss mad of that.

I thought that, with london rd on the right, but the buildings in the distance dont look right to me.

Pershore Road ?

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane If it helps. The border between Yardley and Bordesly was Blake Lane, at least till Yardley was incorporated into Bimingham in 1911. The pic is from'Small Heath Remembered' by Bob Marsden. I bought it as a discarded library book. Most of the photos in it are...

Described in Carl Cinns / Laurie Hornsbys song as being where the fairys fly... Was blown up by the IRA i think in the 1930s.

Re: The Custard House, Blake Lane Shame about the quality, but I wonder if thats it in the background.

How about these Millie ? If I have the holmes right, south holme should be just visible top right in the aerial photo, and at the top of the hill in the other one.

So just about on the left hand edge of this ?

another pub bites the dust. It dont seem that long ago when I was at the college, and the gaffer - cant remember his name, big bloke, had a silouette picture of his daughter behind the bar - was refusing to have a jukebox installed. Good pub then, good cheap food.

I'm pretty sure theres a pic of King Kong on the forum somewhere with a clear view of the mulberry bush in the background. And another of a midland red bus with it in view as well if that helps, good luck

Servis factory was in Wednesbury. It was still there up to a couple of years ago. Italian owned now & more or less derelict apart from the warehouse last time i was in there. Had a corner suite re upholstered in brown crocodile skin effect stuff that I bought cheap from lessars when we first...

This place ? Never worked there, knew someone who did so the picture caught my eye.

Yeah, but anybody know anything of the incident, or even where the Picture Palace was ?

Theres a postcard for sale on ebay, picture of the Picture Palace, Small Heath collapse in Feb 1914. Not something I have heard of before, anyone on here know of it ? Wont post the picture as its not fair on the person who wants £75 for it. But the ebay item No. is 370320575824 Always...

Slightly off topic, but I think there was a sidecar factory in Greenway St, Small Heath at some time in the 40s or 50s. Ring a bll with anybody else ?

Might not be what your after, not something I know much about, but in the Central Library there used to be a book on the top floor, not in the history dept, but in what was then called local studies, entitled spmething like' Birmingham, those who served' Gave very little information, but did...

Sure thats not a prat ?

Heard somebody called a twerp the other day, thats one I hadnt heard for donkeys years. Anybody got any idea where it came from - or what it means ? Come to that, where does donkeys years come from ?

Looked through one in Erdington Library last time I was there.