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Rackhams had good Toy Fairs (or is it Fayres?) I used to like the coffee shop on the second floor, and the Food Hall, also the perfume department. It's mentioned in an early episode of Peaky Blinders, when Tommy talks about buying champagne from there - and possibly having it delivered.

I used to like Troach Drops, and Olde English Spangles.

The first part of this was last week and was very good https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/online-lecture-series-love-betrayal-poison-and-death-part-2

My mother lived in Gordon Street with her parents, and it was one of the houses that was bombed. I don't know which number, and she isn't here now. Had a friend who lived in one of the maisonettes in the 60s.

Not actually of Birmingham, but he spent time in Winson Green Prison as a Conscientious Objector during the Second World War. I was leafing through an anthology called 'Don't You Know There's A War On' by Jonathan Croall and found a chapter written by his wife Olive. It sounds pretty awful, but...

Yes, I was a bit vague!! I need to look at a map.

There was a girl who used to catch the same bus that I did going to school, who got off in Bordesley Green to go to where she worked in a building on the left as you were going towards Stechford. It was quite a small building a bit beyond the shops, and I always used to wonder what she did...

The little Hovis loaves! I wonder if you can buy them now. I used to go through Bordesley Green on the bus going to school and coming back.

I found a can of shoe stretching spray in a cupboard the other day. These days, breaking in doesn't seem so much of a thing, but I have got a pair that need it, which is really annoying! I've read that women often prefer the style of shoe that their grandmothers wore, rather than the style...

I remember going to the Co-Op shoe department as a child and maybe as a young teenager. I think it was on the first floor?

We've been able to put some of the story together from newspaper reports. Apparently the man (who was 80) went out to get some medicine for his niece, who was ill. He was knocked down by some kind of vehicle and died in hospital soon afterwards. The niece inherited everything. She must have...

Not sure if I'm putting this in the right section. My husband has inheried a napkin ring from a reltive who lived in Switzerland. He found that the hallmark suggests the Birmingham Assay Office, 1902 and the maker’s mark C.H looks as if it belongs to Charles Harrold & Co of 2 and 3, St Paul’s...

Unfortunately the file was one that had been destroyed - apparently a certain amount are when time has passed. But I'll know what to do next time.

Thank you!

Thanks, lyn, I'll do that.

Could someone remind me how to find the report of an inquest? An ancestor of my husband's was killed in an accident in Islington in 1928. I've found lots of newspaper reports of the accident, but we would like to know what actually happened. (That sounds a bit odd!)

Were there shops on the balconies? It looks as if there could be. There's something very glamorous and mysterious about the arcades.

I think I remember a branch of Werff as you crossed from Lewis's going towards Rackhams. This was in the 1980s - I bought a colourful skirt there.

My mother lived in Gordon Street before the war, and their house was bombed - must have been one of the houses you mention. I didn't realise the maisonettes replaced them. Maria

I remember the fairs, Lynn. I used to have picnics in the park with my sister sometimes. I had a friend in one of the maisonettes in Gordon Street. Maria