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my Nan's favourite store !!

My dear dad took , all of us every Sunday i summer, on the 2 mile walk from our house to the " Black Horse"Illey, we kids sat outside with a vimto, and packet of walkers, blue bag salt crisps !!

2 Pubs, from my youth, I visited alternate saturday nights were the "Rowley Rag", Rowley Regis, and the "Hen and Chickens", Wolverhampton Road, they were, together with the Black Swan Yardley. the IN, places of the day !! Also the the Crooked House ,

Most boys in the late 50's, and early sixties, started drinking in pubs aged around 14, Alan, I did, and most of my mates, we looked a lot older most of us, no one ever queried me!!

many thanks David!!

I always thought the STD code for Birmingham, was 021. David!!

That photo #1840, is brilliant, Mort, so atmospheric and alluring. !! I agree with Richard, old and modern in one shot !!

Thorp Street was a Victorian Barracks, Wendy, and right up till the 60's, was a TA and ACF Headquarters, and drill hall, I went there alot as a lad, to use their rifle range as an Army cadet, they also had the ACF band there too.

Anyone use the Trocadero,? in Temple Street, near the cathedral, used to pop in for a pint when going back from leave, and catching train from Snow Hill .

I think you may well be right Mark!!

I did Gerry, when he passed away, I visited our old homes in Brum, and walked the Salerno beaches, way back in 1998!!

What an iconic photograph Richard!!

My dear dad was on the "Salerno Landings", R A, he was badly wounded on day 2, by a n 88 shell burst, his comrades not surviving, picked up by the US 5th Army, medics, and spent 13 months in a US military hosp in Naples. He suffered the rest of his life with, bad nerves, and severe tinnitus...

Great memories, in a great city, when I tell people about the Birmingham, of my childhood and youth, they are usually astonished in what we had to hand, great venues, and green spaces and parks, and a a lot of cinemas to choose from, I feel really privileged to have grown up in the 50's and...

Cannot remember his name Donbogen, its over 60 years ago, but we then lived in the Bartley Green, area of the city!!!

We had a neighbour, who was involved in the massacre, but can no longer remember their name, he would chat to my dad, and , it was he who told me years later, what had happened to that man!!!

Remember them well !!!!

How many times as a lad did I walk down here with my mom and Dad we lived at 5 Raglan Road Edgbaston 48 till 52, I seem to remember!!

I believe the Warwicks, suffered badly, at the Dunkirk retreat, at the hands of the SS, hope some of them made it home!!, wore the badge as an ACF in the late 50's.!!

Lewis's the rich man's shopping domain, though I too loved the toy floor, especially the electric trains! (Heaven ). I read with interest #1153, I passed a scholarship exam for Birmingham art Collage, in 1961, but because I came from a poor family , my father could not afford to send me, not...