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They say vinyl records are making a comeback, even outselling streams. Trouble with that is that streaming a record will pay someone slightly less than a penny and a vinyl record will cost you £20 (they only count the new ones). As to the thing about the music going out of style. Remember 50...

I remember the shop but can't remember what it was called. They must have known some DJs there because they had quite a few stamped "not for resale".

The shop closest to Dawlish Rd would have been S G Beckett on the other side of Tiverton Rd. The one close to Ryde Park road was Music Box. These from 1972 Kellys

for what it's worth, Diskery still has something approaching a bargain bin. You can find some of the real mass market stuff at £1 a piece.

I remember seeing this a lot when I was using a local network at a local trust with several different buildings. There were various reasons at that point. Some of the drives on the network, I did not have permission to access, I would show their existence but not let me in. Sometimes it showed...

As I remember it, latif's used to use the other half as storage before the furniture wholesalers moved in. That was sometime in the 80s or 90s. The current state has happened this century. These pictures seem to have come from the Rose's bit of the building. I don't know what the bit next to it...

The problem with not upgrading is that things start not working. You find your anti-virus, for example, will no longer support windows X in it's latest version so you can't get the newer version then you can't get updates for the old version. The same sort of thing happens with the drivers that...

From what I remember, those wooden counters were at the front of the building just above reception but when I looked at the building last saturday morning those windows were covered in green netting. Amazing there's anything left of the counters. What'd the lower floor look like?

Next batch of old bags. These are scanned from singles/CD bags rather than photographed. Highway 61 only dealt CDs and was up at Fletchers Walk by the library. A HMV logo from when they still put the dog on everything. Plastic Factory from the far end of Corporation St - not the same place as...

Amazing you can remember what record you bought where in town after all this time. I must have bought a lot of albums there but, if asked which, I could only make guesses (best guess would be some of the early Jefferson Airplane but there would have been a whole lot more). I know I got quite a...

I have a large drawer full of them. I also have most of a run of Brum Beat from issue 2 at the end of the 70s to the point they decided to start charging for it. As I said, if there's anything particular, I can try to find it. Some of the bags can be tricky - matter of flattening them out...

Here's a few more of the old bags. See which ones you remember. The upload option said thumbnail and I did that but you can see the larger version if you just click. Some of these were chosen fo some oddity. Virgin shows their original address. Reddingtons were on Cannon St by Rackhams this...

I think that part of the reason this escapes most of the preservation orders is that it isn't a "war memorial". It's also odd that a memorial to a particular person should not give his dates. The only date on this one was the month the memorial was commissioned/installed or whatever. We know...

Working from (admittedly very unreliable) copies of the Balsall Heathan. The Earl Grey facelift was complete in July 1981. A new manager was put in by March 85 after suggestions that it was "being used by the prostitution and drugs industries". By December 1996 it seems to have become the centre...

Surprising how many shops actually sold those records despite the warning. I've got lots including one that still has the letter to the DJ with the band's address and another that came complete with press pack (mostly photocopied news clippings).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bank Read Deterioration & Regeneration at the end of the article. Lee Bank was a part of Ladywood bordering Bristol St and the middleway. In a lot of ways it is symptomatic of the regeneration of the residential area. Because this is usually considered a high...

There is no butcher called Hardwick in the 1896 version of the lists.

This from a quick google search. The obvious place to start would be national records. There's detail with links to relevant forms at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/children-care/ Some organisations that ran care homes may have separate records and...

I had not previously realised but there are listings for Mrs in the Ms of each surname. There were Mrs Harris listed at: - 38 Alexandra Rd 28 Booth St, Handsworth, 405 Coventry Rd 100 Fentham Rd, Aston 31 Fountain Rd Gothic Villa, Shirley Rd, Acocks Green 127 Gravelly La, Erdington 269 Hagley Rd...

Dug out a few old record bags. Swordfish used to be in Needless Alley, Inferno on Dale End. The one I've found on Hurst St was called Rockers. I have an early issue of Brum Beat 1979(?) where they made the cover story along with Inferno after having been raided by the police for selling Crass...