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Booked "Clun Castl"e a few times at snow hill, a regular visitor , and always a great sight!!

what a wonderful piece of footage, from a great old place of my childhood and youth, so nostalgic, and full of atmosphere, brings back so many memories to an old man !!

Always thought the YMCA, was near Steel House lane, and YWCA on the Bristol Road!!

Dos anyone remember the cinema near to Snowhill Station, (Gaumont)? had a huge hoarding advertising the film Mad, Mad, Mad , World, it was there for months, about 1964/5 time ??

Condolences on your Dad Julie, he lived a good long life, Hawleys were an exceptional bakery, Regards Paul

Hi Rob yes it was a little like that , but a memory some 60 years later, I have a mind set that it was shorter , more chrome, and smaller screen, though after so many years could be completely wrong, of course thanks for posting!!

Yes Richard, I did go to the El Sombrero, only occasionally, as it was expensive for me, loved the atmosphere though!!

Hi Richard, I never went to the cinema, but the little cafe upstairs, with the really quirky Juke Box. that had a sort of TV in it!!

It was a small place Dave, not far up from Bristol Road motors , on the same side, and not far away from the Sombrero cafe!!

lovely looking Pub, getting quite rare now !!

I do believe it was Dave, it had a coffee bar, with a juke box which had a sort of television in it!!

I remember a cinema like that with foreign films in the horse fair not far from the Bristol Road !

Like Pete in the winter would snuggle on the hard wooden benches in the waiting rooms, with a fairly nice fire burning , it was cosy, and had a smell all of its own, !!

I wonder what years, the original building was a Court House ???

yep, back in the fifty's ,was all I could afford to get a bus and platform ticket, with mothers, jam sandwiches and a bottle of water, would spend hours wandering, the platforms of New Street and Snow Hill.

some brilliant shots and so reminiscent of those times, "sigh"

Do you know I never knew this, though, I was only 11, it was't till about 13 or 14 I came to appreciate "Buddy", he was dead by then!!

I went to the Catholic School, for a short while, near the church in the fifty's, badly bullied, so Mom sent me to Our lady of St Rose Weoley Castle, about 1957ish!

so lucky Pete, wish I did !!

Its just, impossible to explain in words the mystic of the smell of steam and smoke, and the memories it evokes!!