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My interest in doing that walk was that if I spent a Sunday afternoon on Snow Hill as a boy, then I would get a train to Smethwick West and a bus home from there as I have always preferred circular journeys rather than out and back so I knew the line before it closed. After several house moves I...

I did the walk but I do not remember that queue. Perhaps I was there either early or late and fortunately missed that. I also did the later walk to Handsworth and a few months ago came across my ticket for Snow Hill to New Street. The only time they have ever issued such a ticket. For that...

I knew the cinema as the Monument after the name of the road, then like a lot of others it was just called ABC. Only went there once. Learned a lot in the back rows, No further comment

This is the today view. You can see that the wall and the gate posts are still there. Nowhere near such an imposing building there today. If travelling into Birmingham, this is on your left before the first block of shops at the Ivy Bush. The present Church of the Redeemer is in Monument Road...

My scam calls seem to be earlier in the morning than they used to be. I had 2 calls last week at about 8.15 and two today soon after 9.00. 2 were UK mobile numbers that I did not recognise and 2 were international numbers. Did not answer any of them.

As I understand it, and someone more technical than I am may know better, all a smart meter does is that you do not have someone calling at your house up to 4 times per year because the meter can send a message to your fuel distributor. However both my gas and electrical suppliers now email and...

I stopped watching that video before it got halfway through. It has all the hallmarks of disinformation as there is no way that a meter however smart can workout that information about what is going on in the house. I would put it on a par with the antivaxers swaying that a micro chip is being...

Effectively the government merged all the area boards and the CEGB in to one then split it up again into separate companies which were all floated on the stock exchange. Some of the split seemed quite arbitrary as Nuclear Power got some coal fired power stations that they could sell off as a...

Has been discussed, possibly on Facebook, when it was miss-identified as a chapel south of Broad Street. You show the correct view but I know that there is a reversed photo floating around. This could be a Phyllis Nicklin photo.

My recollection of singing in primary school was D'ye ken John Peel (probably not politically correct today) The British Grenadiers The Bonnets of Bonny Dundee The Men of Harlech (we had a Welsh teacher) Nymphs and Shepherds (I hated that one, it seemed so stupid to me as I just did not...

The word Difficult was a word that I shall never forget because of the way that the teacher humiliated me in class over the spelling of that word. In modern terminology I would have been in Year 5. I don't remember why but I was standing at the front of the class and the teacher was at the back...

Sorry John, I had to look that up Zoopla estimate of current average house price Westlands Newcastle £258.881 Rosemary Hill Road £1,174,122

I have enlarged the picture on screen and I can see shadowy buildings behind which makes me think that the ink from the reverse of the page is showing through. I can't see an architectural magazine publishing mock ups as surely they would be showing the finished work.

Thanks Mike. As I was writing, I thought I had not got it right. I was sure there was an earlier date. The date of 1936 was the date of the formation of the Birmingham Town & District Bank with offices in Colmore Row. So the date 1836 was the date of the formation of the bank not the date of...

I have not been in the area for sometime for obvious reasons although I do intend to go there as soon as possible because a lot has changed since I was last in Broad Street. Because of this I am speaking from memory but I am sure the date over the door is something like 1867. Unless there was...

Bob Wilson's Fun Fairs used to be based in Stratford upon Avon but looking at their website they now appear to be based in Albrighton on the Wirral and are a national organisation rather than a local outfit. The other large fun fair in our area used to be Pat Collins who were based in Bloxwich.

Thanks for the work various people have done on these latest photos.

I just had a look at the Unitarian Historical Society Website https://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/hsrecords4.html If you page down till you come to West Midlands it lists various churches etc in Birmingham but I did not see the Mission that you mention. As a mission it would probably be...

St Jude's church. The site is now occupied by the Albany Banquetting Suite. St Jude's Passage still runs along between the Banquetting Suite and the hotel. There were some photos of the church posted on Facebook a day or so ago but I cannot now find them.

Bit ambiguous about long distance services as I was able to use the tickets in the late 1950s on the X numbered services travelling to Nottingham, Northampton and Leicester. I believe after deregulation some doubledeckers even got to the Lincolnshire coast.