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Grange Road, if it's any help, is where the old Ariel motor-bike factory used to be. It was just a short road, and opposite the junction of it with Bristol Road was (maybe still is) a pub, set back from the main Bristol Road. Sorry to be so vague, but it's decades since I've been in the area. It...

When I worked there in the 1960's I used the entrance via Grange Road, off Bristol Road. Is that entrance still used? G

OK guys, I accept my admonishment in good grace! Years ago a friend took me to a guitarists concert at a church hall, and to my horror it was all Flamenco! Now I'm fully aware that Flamenco is very popular the world over, and requires advanced guitar skills - it's just that I can't listen to it...

WS, if you yourself think that L Buckingham was the world's greatest ever guitar-player, then fine by me. As a guitar-player myself, I just don't think he was. And playing without a plectrum is extremely common - it's called 'finger style'. G

Er...I don't somehow think so. G

I'd forgotten all about the Music Archive website and haven't looked in there for ages, but very interesting - thanks again! You know what they say - if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't there! At a guess I'd say that poster would be 1967/68, but I may be way out. G

Thanks A Sparks, if Robert Plant was on just the once at Le Metro, then that's the night! Good find! Any idea what year that poster refers to, and where did you find it? I used to go to the Saturday night concerts at the CAT, now Aston University. Saw some good bands there, including The Bonzo...

John Lee Hooker and Jesse Fuller appeared there, but I didn't see them, sorry to say. Did see Robert Plant's Band Of Joy there. It was a small place in the arches under Snow Hill Station, and could get incredibly packed out. There was a bar, and I think they did snacks. It changed ownership and...

I'd forgotten Le Metro! Good place, good music (most of the time). Didn't Harvey Andrews have a hand in starting up this place? G

I totally agree about Fleetwood Mac being at their best with Peter Green - and I also saw them at The Swan, Yardley, so maybe I rubbed shoulders with Ray T and Elmdon Boy! The later F Mac seems a bit too 'glam' for me, their earthy-bluesy feel long gone, unfortunately. Peter Green was...

I was always interested in reading about the supernatural, but never believed in it. However, nearly 40 years ago I was on the way to my in-laws' house in West Bromwich, round about midnight. Driving through a nearby estate I suddenly slammed on the brakes as a woman holding a child was in the...

Yep, the last time the Villa won the FA Cup. Oddly enough, I know Peter McParland's great-nephew (I think that's correct), also called Peter McParland. He and I both occasionally play at the same guitar club near Kingsbury. Jimmy Dugdale lived in The Broadway, where I did, and he ran The Boar's...

The former Villa player who had the TV & Radio shop on the corner of Bevington and Witton was Leslie Smith....how on earth could I forget that?? G

Great photos of Darlington's shop then and now, Viv! We lived in The Broadway, just past Normandy Road, and my grandparents lived at 22 Bevington Road, next door to Beebee's shop. Darlington's was like a magnet for kids in the 40's and 50's - every month I'd go and see if there was a new Dinky...

Thanks, Viv. I can remember him when he was about 14 with the Spencer Davis Group, and my wife and I are still big fans. G

I thought my message was addressed to Vivienne14...... G

Vivienne, living as you did in Atlantic Road, did you by any chance know Steve Winwood, who also lived in that road? Like your ski-pants, b.t.w. If anyone's really interested, I've still got a couple of pairs of bell-bottoms from around 1967, including ones with a very tasteful and trendy...

A friend bought (used) a Skoda Octavia around 1967, and apart from the mickey-taking it was a good car. Noisy and not too comfortable, but solid as a rock. One afternoon when he was on Kingstanding Road a van pulled out, and he couldn't avoid it. The van was a virtual write-off, but the Skoda...

The worst part of the bus journey to London was the Midland Red bus-station in Digbeth. It was an embarrassment, to put it blunty, and the bus-station near Euston at the other end wasn't much better. On one fine day in the mid-1960's I was heading to London on the M1 with some pals to go to a...

Another aspect of travel I remember well from those days was going to London down the M1 on a Midland Red single-decker. Their boast was Birmingham to London in less than 90 minutes, and they could do it! No speed limit on the motorways in those days, so these buses would get to well over 100...