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Thanks for this Phil. I have seen this picture on the site and saved it somewhere but haven't been able to find it. We lived above the John Britton shoe shop. There was a record shop just beside the vehicle entry a couple of shops down from the Gondola. I bought my very first LP there in June...

They are fully modernised with a four star hotel style bathroom/toilet and a fully fitted kitchen, with everything you need to self cater if you don't fancy eating out. Definitely not roughing it when you stay here!

I lived just down from there from 1967 to 1972 in a flat above a shoe shop next door to the Gondola Milk bar. My Mom worked in the Gondola for a while and I had free access to the juke box, which made me very popular with my mates as music was our main interest. It was a spacious flat and it was...

I moved to Birmingham from Ireland aged 11 in 1966. For a good while my accent was a mish mash of Brummie and West of Ireland. Some people thought I was a scouser...! I moved away from Brum in my twenties and having lived in various places since then I now have a fairly neutral English accent...

If any members live outside Birmingham and want a great place to stay during visits I would heartily recommend staying at one of the two National Trust Back Properties located at 52 & 54 Inge St just off Hurst St. I now live in Ireland and have stayed in No 52 which is set up in Victorian style...

I worked shifts at the British Rail parcel depot behind the old Curzon street station in the mid 70's. It was within the area that is now cleared for the HS2 station. The people working there were a mix of Bohemian types, students, old sweats and Indians but we all rubbed along very well. There...

I remember that it was very logically laid out, with live pigs coming in at one end and a huge variety of pork products leaving despatch at the other end of the complex, with all the various production areas in separate sections dependent on product.

This was a really buzzing area at the time of that map and well into the 1970's. Bit of a wasteland now, very sadly.

Possibly. I moved from Small Heath in 1974. At that time Lyndon's was still there, opposite the gates to Small Heath Park as you say. Perhaps they sold up and bought the other one some time after this?

There was another newsagents in a small parade of shops past St Benedict's Rd just down from The Holy Family Church on the opposite side of the road. I also had a paper round there before I took over the one at Lyndon's. I left because Lyndon's paid a bit more. It was nothing to do with Lyndon's...

The Galaxy was further up the Coventry Rd next to Maturi's. It was owned by an Italian couple whose daughters ensured that the jukebox was kept well stocked with soul and reggae in the late 60's early 70's when I went there.

Definitely by Small Heath park looking down towards Dora Rd and Mansel Rd. Lyndon newsagents where I had a paper round in the late 60's was on the opposite side of the road Although the picture is much older I remember this area very well as we lived close by in a two story flat above a shoe...

Sorry about the late reply as I have been absent from this site for a while. I may have met your Nan but unfortunately don't remember her name.

Thank you for all this info. I had almost forgotten about the place until I was over that way recently visiting Motorpoint which occupies the old Ansells Brewery site. I had a walk down Portland Street but it is all completely changed, apart from the pub on the corner. I also worked there...

Does anybody remember this factory in Portland St opposite Ansells Brewery? They made military buttons and were still operating in the early seventies.

I worked there part time when I was at school during school hols late December 1969 for two shillings an hour. At that time it was owned by two Asian Guys. It was at the top of Kingston Hill as shown in photo just below the Kingston Cinema

I worked at Bywaters during the school summer holidays during 1969 and again in 1970 I wasn't quite 15 in 1969 which was the legal age to work at that time but I told them that I was and they set me on. Easy going times! I spent both summers pushing pig carcases from the slaughterhouse into the...

During the mid seventies I worked at the British Rail parcel depot behind the old Curzon St station. We spent a fair bit of time in the Woodman especially in the winter months during the evenings when trains were often delayed. Thought nothing of having four or five pints and then going back...

I was there between 1966 and 1970. I remember Kevin McNally, Greg Doyle. Pete Ryan and Paul Flatley, to name a few My last class teacher was Mr Hodder. When I applied to get into higher education in the late 70's he wrote me a great reference. He was the best teacher that I encountered during my...

Good point about Villa's location...A heresy from a died in the wool Villa fan but I have a huge soft spot for BCFC. Perhaps something about how the ground keeper would allow neighbourhood kids to kick a ball around the billiard table pitch during the summer of 1969 or maybe the great reggae...