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Hi Alan Looking at your thread remarks i am inclined to agree with you about the setting up of the glass house could it not be made of perspex all those window frames, don,t forget there was truly experience trade people around in those and bearing...

Hi Lynn Here is a couple more for your collection may be regarding the villa cross pub Two different looks from years ago and look at there adverts and names best wishes Alan, Astonian,,,

My father used to have three hats in the thirtys and forty,s he wore a flat capp and high brimmed hat and a bowler hat when he went to the freemans society the druids because my mother ,s father got him involved so he had to weat the bowler hat and he had a broad purple band with some...

Hi Viv and mike many thanks for your contact to you both , i never seen your original reply other wise i would not have made a a request so once again guys a million thanks for your time and assistance best wishes...

Hi guys What i am tryimg to find out is where was the place or to try and find out what type of premises it was during the early years i think it was in the thirtys i beleive and it was in jamica row , and it was called the Banana ovens which...

Hi VIV Here is a little more info , a survey of the area was made in 1750, by Samuel Bradford, of the houses and inhabitants In the area, Area, Houses, Inhabitants Edgbaston Street 151 879...

Cor blimmey Alan You have certainly openend my eyes on this one for sure and i can only thank you for your deep detailed information On good old woolie wonders which myself was not aware of all over the globe so to speak of...

when i was 13 years old i bought a little tiny camera from the woolworths store on the flat of lodge road it took cracking pictures i have to say It only cost me a tanner , meaning if you forot 6d pence only a great little bargain As a nipper and poor i really wanted a brownie 125 camera so i...

Hi MIKE On the subject of those two bill boards ,the one on the left states summerhill picture house do you think that years later it became the lyric picture house which was just along from the sandpitts and it was summhill the old Lyric picture...

Hi VIV I looks like you have beaten me to it on the verifying of our friend whom stated that there was a criterion pub He was actualy correctwhen he said there was the pub in jamica row for that period name criterion public house and i have it at...

Hi guys , does anybody ever recall those red and coloured bus tokens given by the bus company to the education dept for school kids from old days to cover the cost of them getting to school and back home we had red and green ones best wishes Astonian,,,, Alan,,,

I can say that in the early years of my mothers growing up she was born 1926 and used to go there at that church Which was in those days a baptis church as i have prevuiosly said in early years on this forum my grand mother used to take my mother with her to that church for meetings every week...

Hi Viv, Here is a photograph to be what i beleive o be the first market in 1835 And accomodated 600 stalls for thsale of flowers fruit and veg poultry and fish Please se the enclosed pic, Alan,, Astonian,,

Hi mIKE I am incline to go with you on that answer being toilets, and i was studying late last night or should i say in in this morning At 1 am sure to me its the toilets block for the workers , and that the conclusion of reading the inscription myself...

Hi viv on the thread number 12 it stated by our dear old friend and myfriend indeedwas of course QC And you correctly know he is no longer amember of the forum, sadly But anyway he stated the cannal banks had burst , but in fact it was the lock along side grt...

Anyway Guys, Jokenly put aside regardless of the cost i think it was a great idea to paint them gold it certainly lifts the place up and just looking at lynns old pic of the boys in the fifty sixtys they was well worn out and drabby And may i add i was in broad street a couple of weeks back...

well eric you did say 25,ooo grand its a laugh aint it and cutting the birmingham city councils services Come on get some one in there i say , well we cannot blame albert now can we I would have done it for 5,ooo and thats cheap at half the price...

Hi Sticher and stars Given the fact that tascos started in stircley and as the co/op And they have roots of there business settled in and up and down the stirchley and cotteridge area they never really ventured to...

thank you lynn for your reply i can only presume i have takrn it out her conversation at some point years ago she used the expression and called herself a brookie girl in some part of her conversation yes it was maggie i knew this over ten years ago i used to speak to her a hell of aloy...

Hi Alan what year do you put this fggot and pea shop being opersite the turf pub That was actualy facing the turf pub because actualy facing was the complete corner of springhill is the picture house of one time and there door way but if you are walking down ickneild street heading towards...