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Yes, I was a bit vague!! I need to look at a map.

There was a girl who used to catch the same bus that I did going to school, who got off in Bordesley Green to go to where she worked in a building on the left as you were going towards Stechford. It was quite a small building a bit beyond the shops, and I always used to wonder what she did...

The little Hovis loaves! I wonder if you can buy them now. I used to go through Bordesley Green on the bus going to school and coming back.

I found a can of shoe stretching spray in a cupboard the other day. These days, breaking in doesn't seem so much of a thing, but I have got a pair that need it, which is really annoying! I've read that women often prefer the style of shoe that their grandmothers wore, rather than the style...

I remember going to the Co-Op shoe department as a child and maybe as a young teenager. I think it was on the first floor?

We've been able to put some of the story together from newspaper reports. Apparently the man (who was 80) went out to get some medicine for his niece, who was ill. He was knocked down by some kind of vehicle and died in hospital soon afterwards. The niece inherited everything. She must have...

Not sure if I'm putting this in the right section. My husband has inheried a napkin ring from a reltive who lived in Switzerland. He found that the hallmark suggests the Birmingham Assay Office, 1902 and the maker’s mark C.H looks as if it belongs to Charles Harrold & Co of 2 and 3, St Paul’s...

Unfortunately the file was one that had been destroyed - apparently a certain amount are when time has passed. But I'll know what to do next time.

Thank you!

Thanks, lyn, I'll do that.

Could someone remind me how to find the report of an inquest? An ancestor of my husband's was killed in an accident in Islington in 1928. I've found lots of newspaper reports of the accident, but we would like to know what actually happened. (That sounds a bit odd!)

Were there shops on the balconies? It looks as if there could be. There's something very glamorous and mysterious about the arcades.

I think I remember a branch of Werff as you crossed from Lewis's going towards Rackhams. This was in the 1980s - I bought a colourful skirt there.

My mother lived in Gordon Street before the war, and their house was bombed - must have been one of the houses you mention. I didn't realise the maisonettes replaced them. Maria

I remember the fairs, Lynn. I used to have picnics in the park with my sister sometimes. I had a friend in one of the maisonettes in Gordon Street. Maria

Hello Florence. The name Bakewell is familiar, but not Earp.

I do wish I could remember the roof garden - and the lifts! I remember the Corocraft (jewellery) counter, and the strange way you never quite knew what you were going to find around the next corner , or that's how it seemed to me. It was almost magical the way bits of the building linked up.

I've always wondered what happened to the fittings when it closed down. Auctioned, I suppose. It was one of my favourite shops when I lived in Birmingham, and has so many memories of meeting friends in the coffee bars, of which there were many.

I don't rememember the Japanese crab. The roaring dinosaur is one thing that stands out in my memory, and the pterodactyl, which I think was suspended over the mummy gallery. There was, I think, a black New Look dress or suit in a glass case somewhere, in a secluded area.

I think I remember them. They were very small, miniature really - or that's how they seemed.