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Hi Sticher got to say thats the best picture i have sen on this forum for many years as it,s a close up shot brillient That would be the old guy selling is last remaining mails each used to stand outside the golden cross pub and when he got down to about a dozen he would cross over and...

Hi Lumphamer, have you spoken with our dear old friend Bazzm whom used to work there in the offices and i also worked there years ago and bazz and myself are in contact with each other for years since we left bazz did go back to the forge as i live in worc i never got back to meet up but bazz...

Nice picture stich the van driver looks one of my friend brother he worked for them in the early years his name was alan frisby his younger brother was my best mate from springhill passagehe done the whole sale side of the bakery

That would be highly criminal if they was demolish that complete complex ,as one is saying the hall of memory , the fountain , and baskerville house to be done away with , come on you brummie people that is the only centre sho peice e have in brum dont tell me the icon is new street station or...

yes wimpy was the joke in those days we employee we employ more paddys every year slogan

Hi Ellbrown The reason it did not last very long was because the residents complained and made a petion to the council to have it closed down on a noise abatement order which they won and forced its owners to close it down permently and...

Yes it was the golden cross pub my old man ran it for the dodds family whom was the licencee,s for many years my old man was william but i there say he was known as bill he started when he was 14 years old there and died when he reached 42 years of age he also done all the reliefes for all...

Hi Tim tHts very true in deed i recall a mr jack Kelly whom was an old time barrow boy in the market of brum As he got older he started as a street hawker he would push his hand cart around the soth side of brum He also he concertrated on all the pubs around the city...

yes mike wrigleys introduce the automatic machines out side certain shops whom the owners thought it might be an good idea but the truth of the matter they never really took off at old 6d pence piece Drop your tanner in the top and it delivered...

well viv , I really think it,s amazing how they are coming back best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,

hi vinny and dibb4 the rimi cafe closed down eventual and the side entry along side was openend up by the kirbys I think it was irene and annie whom opened up the rag alley for a short while...

Hi Vinny I have got afew photos of old Hingestion street and the shops at the moment i am ploughing through my very old Files for some one going back about ten years now but if i can spot them i will pull them out and put them up but i have...

Hi Did 44 yes that was the cafe with the shot gun the coffee bar first openend as the volcano, but a couple of years later it changed to the rimmi and it was the new owner whom got shot best wishes Astonian,,,, Alan,,,

Hi vinny Yes i recall the shotgun shooting that was down along on the corner of Hingestion street there was a couple of gangs in action whom everybody knew whom they was it was namely two big familys The incident was at...

Hi Alan I am very please to hear and read your reply on this subject, regarding the Lucky bit And of your comment about the older geration of romany that was firrst on the scene within the birmingham area best wishes Astonian,,, Alan,,

Hi Mike To be honest that was my first thoughts and to put it along those lines but i better think different it case that words offends some one so i put it as heather because every body in those days it was only gypsies whom used to sell heather as a good luck charm...

Hi Vinny Here is another picture of Hingestion street with the laureells pub on the corner and the gaffer there was stabbed by a couple of geezers they got five years i think it was borstal best wishes Astonian,,

quite rightly Alan, stichers is correct in what he as stated alex,s was right behind the pub the crown at the bottom of station street and hill street and yes it was across the road from the Albany during the sixties an friend of mine from the summer hill stores father moved from there and...

well viv looking at the state of there bunches of flowers ,i don,t blame him they look a like and dressed alike, i wonder if they was sisters wearing the same type of coats and head scarfs there bunches loook like bunches of heather , his look like...

Good morning viv yes indeed they are a great selection to be viewed great bit of work old mowhawk and great to lynn and phil i entirely agree a great selection so take a look fellow members best wishes Astonian,,,, Alan,,