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Thank you Lyn but, again no. Is that the corner of Gerrard St & William St? The photo I refer to has exactly the same viewpoint but, the corner of Gerrard St & Alma St always had a set of traffic lights, hence my original comment about kicking the regulator. Here is a long shot of that ex-cafe...

Hi Rob, much appreciated but unfortunately it's not. I believe that photo is the corner of Gerrard St & Berners St. The cafe on the corner of Alma St & Gerrard St closed down in the 50s and was boarded up even though the chap who ran it still lived there.

I'm sure I'm not dreaming but, I saw a photo a while back of the old closed down cafe on the junction of Gerrard St & Alma St. I'm sure I commented that when we were kids, to make the traffic lights change, we used to kick the embossed lighthouse on the door of that traffic light regulator that...

Although this post is 4 years old, I've only just seen it and showed the photo to my wife. She recognised Mrs Herbert. My wife's Family used to live 5 doors away in Whitehead St.

Hi Lyn, I made a mistake. It's ROYAL not HOTEL. https://pubwiki.co.uk/Warwickshire/BirminghamR/RoyalVictoriaCross.shtml

I made a mistake. Although it looked like 'HOTEL' to me, it is actually 'ROYAL'. Here is a list of licensees and Families. https://pubwiki.co.uk/Warwickshire/BirminghamR/RoyalVictoriaCross.shtml

Just found this photo of Hotel Victoria Cross on the Birmingham Forum which was posted by our late friend Phil in Oct 2014. This view along William St looks like it was taken early 70s.

Hi Lyn, just posted the full photo. Barry

This is a really lost pub because I can't find any information on it anywhere. It looks like it was a Mitchells & Butlers pub called the Hotel Victoria Cross and was on the corner of Gower St & William St, Lozells. It shows as P.H on a 1891 map and also a 1917 map but it's not mentioned on a...

Hi Ozbrum, yes, went there every week to window shop and see what was new. Talking of suits I've just remembered Brook Bros on the corner of Lozells St.

Lyn, sorry about the confusion. I was looking through the Lozells Rd thread when I noticed that map you posted showing where Lozells Farm was. I also noticed on the map a word which looked like 'school' in Gower St. Because of the low resolution I couldn't quite make out if it did say 'school'...

Hi Lyn, sorry for going off thread. I can't quite make it out but, does the map say "school" where Gower St is? This map is 2 years before the proper school was established and I'm sure this was the temporary building.

Around 1962 I remember a shop called something like M & J which sold fashion clothes for us dedicated followers of fashion. Bought my shortie raincoat from there. It was situated in one of the shops opposite Hartington Rd.

Hi Lyn, thanks for that information. That does suggest that the building on Gower St probably was the first building built. Because it was situated next to the church, I always thought that the building on Lozells Road was built first.

In recent years I've often wondered why my school was called Gower St School when only a small part of it was actually in Gower St. The block we used for woodwork,metalwork & pottery was on Lozells Rd between the Police station & St Pauls church. The block (which still stands today) that had the...

Hi Steve, yes, we may well have encountered each other during that time. More so if you went to the cafe on the corner of Price St & Loveday St. I was always in there playing the jukebox. I reckon I played "Tell Laura I Love Her" so many times I could have bought the record.

Seeing the name Cora Watkins running pubs makes me think that she might be the Watkins family I lived with at 136 Victoria Road in 1958. She was German and her husband was Bill Watkins. They had two sons but I can't remember their names. A few years later I heard that she was running a pub in...

The new development near the current entrance (where the Iron House was ) will be the new visitor centre. Here are two videos they have put out.

Looks like this building next to the Hall of Memory.

I was at the BCLM 1940s event last week and took a few photos of the proposed 40s,50s,60s street site while I was there. The Fairground has gone and there are several footings up at the Institute end. Hope to see further progress in the coming months.