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so true Lyn, being poor did have some benefits, my dear Mom, adored soft Roe, and always had some on a Friday !!

as a kid, I adored the "Scratchin's", which came with loads of salt and vinegar, wonderful !!

A beautiful preserved railway, well run. and wonderful journey's.

Were those diamond bus signs for Terminus's?

I served for 2 years in the Royal Warks, ACF Northfield , very proud to wear the chained hart, though ended up in the Guards !!

I remember the school near the pub in Harborne Viv !!

Great Shame, on such a great city??

Makes you realise just how many , ordinary working men and women, contributed to our country's call, and many paying the ultimate price, while others without fanfare came home from the horrors, and quietly got back into their working lives. So very grateful, I put a poppy cross every year to the...

The amounts of money needed now a days for projects , spins my brain, totally outrageous!!

Great map, so much detail .

astounding Viv!!

Very Interesting Viv,, never appreciated the building,even though I worked there once.

Looking at #2065, its something that has always amazed me, that the thing about HE damage, is so variable, the "Rackhams", building on the corner looks nearly undamaged, it the blast direction, not size amount, same in NI.

Thanks Viv, must say I never remember a pub with that name in the 50's or 60's.

Thanks Lloyd, great picture very clear, great pub crawler in my day, as Lyn says not one I had heard of before!!

Great pic, "Ind Coope", very rare for Brum i'd say, dirt street and subsidence, old even then say 18th C, love the casks in yard through gate way!!

I grew up in Bartley Green, in the 50's, a 2d Tram ride to the city centre, but looked just like #85915, idealic Warwickshire village, wonderful countryside but part of Birmingham , !!

What great photo's, Adderics, well done your dad for saving them.

So very sad Lyn, where has all our civic pride gone ??

I agree Lyn, so much Birmingham history lost, through council complacency!!!