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I've been a member of this wonderful Forum for 10 years now but I'm afraid that this website (for me), has become a chore to get in to and I don't know how long I can continue doing what I've just had to do. I've just spent about 20 minutes unticking 227 legitimate interest boxes from a list of...

Have I got a rogue virus on my laptop or does this happen to all our members? Every time I come to the Birmingham History Forum, I get a pop up privacy & transparency notice. After initially pressing the "continue with recommended cookies" button when it first appeared, I found that after a few...

I hope I've put this on the correct thread (general discussion). Every time I've logged on over past few weeks, I get a cookie preference pop up. I've been pressing the accept button but, it shows up again the next time. Is this now the norm?

Sorry, I can't help. I think 142 would have been somewhere around Salisbury Rd or Hatfield Rd. I'm guessing the photo on #743 shows houses opposite these roads.

I was sorry to miss the meet-up. I went the last time we had one but I was away over this Easter weekend. Hope you can organise another one sometime this year.

I agree with MWS on post #3058 that it is St Matthew's church in Duddeston/Nechells. My wife's parents were married there in 1937. This Google Earth image from today is from the closest position to the original post.

You're right Lyn, it is Six Ways

That photo posted #225 looks like the frontage when I went there in 1963. The main gates were then situated as shown opposite the middle section but, around 1965 they moved the gates down to the end just before the canal. There is is a photo somewhere purporting to be taken in 1959 which shows...

From our Ted & Family to yours. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2023 to all members of the Forum.

Burley's in Whitehead Street, Aston, my local garage in the 60s. I'm guessing that the photo is from mid 50s. Filled all my motorbikes and cars there until it closed in 1967 due to re-development. The proposed sign that eventually went up was the Regent logo.

Do you think that man & his dog are walking down what we now know as Garrison Lane?

Going by the open sign, it looks like Priory Cycles sold Duckhams motor oil.

I went to the Bull Ring one Sunday morning in 2000 with my (slow focusing) analogue video camera to capture the dismantling of the old market. I went again in 2001 and 2002 then added a news item at the end to make a complete video. I've now edited it down to 14 minutes.

When I first joined Charles Winn Valves in 1974, it was part of Delta metal. We shared the building in Granville St with Barker & Allen and Delta Marine. When we moved to Warwick St Deritend in 1976, Delta Marine came with us. They left when we were taken over by american company Tyco Valves.

Thank you all for your help. MWS, your map shows me it was No171. Incidently, it also shows 69 Leamington Rd which was where I lived at that time. PJMBURNS, I assume they lived above the shop in 1954 but not sure for how long they were there. The electoral roll you posted made me smile because I...

I've tried all ways online to find a street map or Kelly's directory referring to the chip shop on Stoney Lane Sparkbrook in 1954. Looking at Google Earth I think the house number would have been around No 137 - 141. My Aunt Bessie (Betty) Middleham ran it then for a while with Uncle Frank. I...

Hi oldMohawk, love that first photo however, I thought that the 'now' photo didn't quite match (the road has an incline which the 'then' photo doesn't have. I think the original is on the corner of Nursery Rd but the opposite corner and you can just see the back of the billboards on the ariel...

I too had a Commodore 64 and later bought an Amiga 500+ which is still in the attic somewhere.

I remember taking my test to drive a bus. Amongst the many questions I was asked, the examiner asked me which vehicles were not allowed on a motorway. In my nervousness, one of the vehicles I said was articulated vehicles but in my mind I had said agricultural vehicles. It was only when he asked...

What a spectacular opening ceremony last night. Proud to say my Son and Son-in-Law were both volunteers. Over the next week I must go 'up town' to see that brilliant Brummie bull.