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I too thought that it was a traffic light control box but then thought it looked like the guy on the left looks like he's moving it with a sack truck. Trouble is, there doesn't seem to be any wheels. Whatever it is, it seems to stand on feet which maybe suggests it is movable. I also think that...

Our re-enactor group were asked to to a dispersal display at Kemble in 2013. While we were there we got to look around inside the BBmf Lancaster and I took this video.

I was at the Walsall Aboretum car show today and was delighted to see the Lancaster flying over. I've seen it lots of times at 1940s events but never at a car show. It was travelling in a north-westerly direction so was probably returning home to RAF Coningsby from somewhere.

Whenever I went to my local chip shop I had a choice of which pie to buy. Telfers had two pies, small for 9d and large for 11d. If I could afford it I would buy the Fleur-de-Lys for 1/1d. Enjoyable as it was, I recall that I always seemed to only have enough to buy the large Telfer pie.

I used to get my bicycle parts from Thomas's.

In the absence of any photos available, the reason I originally made these images is to show my children & grandchildren where we used to live. The far house (next to the factory) was No9 where my wife lived before we were married. After we were married we lived in the front room of that house...

Hi brummy-lad, apart from the colourized ones, all photos posted on this website are original. Because this is largely only an interpretation of what I remember in a photographic form, I thought it might be deemed inappropriate. Having said that, I believe it to be pretty accurate.

I have yet to see any real photos of Whitehead St so, over the past few months I made one up. Using various personal photos,other photos, maps and a great deal of my memory I have made this video photo. Anyone living around Alma St or High St in the early 60s might also remember this scene. If...

Best wishes Maurice and hope you get well soon.

In the early 60s I used to go to Hawkins shop in High St every saturday lunchtime for whelks & a bowl of peas (bread basket inc). Never had jellied eels though.

Happy Birthday, hope you've had a great day.

I replied to the message JOHC sent me and put him on to "Birchfield Road Perry Barr" thread (page 36). I also add this 2001 Google Earth photo of the area he talks about which shows the tower block.

When I was 9yrs old in 1955-56, I lived at No 69 Leamington Road with Jack & Marie Bradbury. I remember going to that shop after the baker's van had delivered the unwrapped bread in a crate. Used to lick my finger and lift the crumbs from the wooden counter. Also bought my Palm toffee bars from...

I've always thought that Deritend meets Digbeth at the river Rea (Floodgate St). Then extends out to somewhere around Alcester St where it becomes Bordesley.

I used Aston Autos a lot for spares in the 60s. I bought a 1964 BSA C15 from there in 1968. I always remember the guy in the spares dept who called everyone "moit" (mate).

Gang show at Stalag VIIIB. My Father-in-Law, Albert Rogers is standing 2nd from the right.

The chip shop in Potters Lane has been widely discussed but, there was one on the corner of Potters Hill & Victoria Road. It was run by a middle aged couple and around 1962 they changed it from a normal grocery shop into a chippie. All I remember of the lady was her enormous beehive hairstyle...

Happy Birthday Lyn, hope you have a great day.

This is Jelf's cafe on the corner of Alma St & Gerrard St. The lady is probably Mrs Beatrice Jelf.

While looking through the various Birmingham websites looking for that aforementioned photo (which I still haven't found), I came across this photo. This is the cafe which was run by the late Astonian's great uncle Henry Jelf. The lady in this photo must be his wife Beatrice. Also in this photo...