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Hi, Surely the train in the last photo is actually alongside platform 3. I can never remember which side of the bridge 1A and 1B and 2A and 2B were. Kind regards Dave

Hi Ria, Camp Hill Girls School was and still is situated next door to the Boys' school. King Edward V1 Girls School at Handsworth is/was? a separate school. Kind regards Dave

Hi, Was Fred O'Nions by any chance an Insurance man. We lived in Frederick Road in the 1950s/60s, and a Mr O'Nions used to collect premiums from us. I also remember June Ward, - lived pretty well opposite Dr. Segal's in Victoria Road. Kind regards Dave

Hi, Was that the dealers in the middle of the row of shops at the beginning of Coleshill Road where they usually had Laverdas in the window? Kind regards Dave

Hi Jean, I think the other company is Felt and Tarrant, who have been mentioned on other posts, but I believe they also had an association with Bell Punch and Compucorp. They brought out a small desk calculator called the Anita 1011 LSI which was supposed to replace the functions of the...

Hi Jean, My mind playing tricks again, and I knew that building quite well. Would the Sumlock place have been over the snooker hall, as I remember going upstairs to the snooker hall (the entrance was just round the corner from Cannon St), and we used to go to the windows overlooking C & A...

Hi Steve, I worked in a bank in the 60's, and one of the main use of the Foreign Business Dept was the supply of foreign currency and travellers cheques for holidays abroad. A relative of mine worked for many years at Enoch's repairing second hand TVs for resale. It looks very bright and new...

Hi Jean, Was Sumlock's place somewhere near the top of Digbeth? Kind regards Dave

Hi Mike, That's interesting. many thanks. I'm puzzled why he should be issuing 3d tokens at that time, or was there a shortage of small change, as pre 1873 pennies are much rarer than the later ones. Or indeed why at all if he was only there for a short time. I wonder if the overstamping JH...

Hi, Still going through a large heap of old metal detector finds, and among them an old copper token with the words George Wright Brook Tavern Lennox St., with a large ornate 3 in the centre. Presumably a 3d token. The token is in very poor condition and the reverse has what appears to be a...

Hi, Yes, I remember finding it in the park in Blakesley Road around 50 years ago Just down the road from Millhouse Road. I used to find so many bits and pieces in those days that I very rarely had a good look at them. I used to meet my girlfriends in that park, and my wife lived just round the...

Hi, No, when I Googled Doris Gritton , it came up with Doris Gertrude Gritton who died in 1979 at Solihull,, and I wrongly assumed that this was the one that had lived at Millhouse Road. The reason for my search was that I was going through some old metal detector finds recently, and I came...

Hi MWS, Many thanks for the reply. This clarifies that I was getting the details mixed up with another Doris Gritton, - maybe a sister of Harry Gritton . Kind regards Dave

Hi, Does anyone have a Doris Gritton who at one time lived in Millhouse Road, South Yardley in their family tree. I believe she died in the 1970s. As far as I know, she would have then been Doris Baxter. Kind regards Dave

Hi Time Traveller, I remember the shop, McGauleys on the same side as the bus garage, and a bit past the junction with Cattell Road. We bought the pram for our first child from them in the 60's Kind regards Dave

Hi, So I guess that that Halifax was where 'Howard from the Halifax' used to be based. Seems half a lifetime away! Kind regards Dave

Hi, Would this perhaps be part of the early telephone system which I believe was based in Newhall Street and directly connected by overhead cables to their city centre subscribers? Kind regards Dave

Hi, My first job in 1960 was at the Westminster Bank, 98, Newhall Street. Can anyone tell me what is there now? Kind regards Dave

Hi Graham, No 1 was Stan Law, - Latin. Kind regards Dave

Hi, The IBM system used 80 column cards which were prepared on a punch machine. the were then passed to a second operator using a 'verifier' machine. The operator would put the punched card into the verifier, and key the same information again and would be alerted if the data didn't tally...