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Does anyone have photos of the interior of this classic old pub, especially the upper floor rooms where the Jazz Club was held on Friday evenings? Thanks G

Does anyone remember Gaylord's, an Indian restaurant at the Victoria Square end of New Street? I think it was part of a nationwide chain of restaurants, and we thought it was a cut above your everyday tikka masala and popadum palace. It was where I saw genuine tandoori ovens for the first time...

A chap I worked with in America told me that he played a character called Colin Warboys (?) in Crossroads, which I only ever watched to take the mickey out of the terrible acting and rickety scenery. I was impressed, until I accidentally discovered that the character Warboys (?) was in only one...

Pen, Strawhead is a bit after my time! Still going, though, I think. Old English stuff, if I remember correctly. G

Wow - great pix there, Pedrocut. I remember Lightnin' Slim, but most of all I remember the late Roger Hill, guitarist almost without equal around here. He passed on a few years ago, and we were all stunned as he was so full of life and his music. He would play either the Birmingham Hippodrome or...

Hello Pen, I remember St Philips OB Club, and the Bell & Pump Folk Club. Back in the late 60's and early 70's we went there most weeks (Saturday night, I think) and saw plenty of performers from that era. Mostly, I have to say, forgotten, especially by me. In fairness, most of them were way too...

Thank you for your kind comment, Lyn. I was always into live music (that is, ABE - Anything But Elvis....) and some of the pubs around the city-centre, even until a few years ago, had some really good blues, jazz and folkie bands on regularly most weeks. A few still do. My wife and I run a...

Round about 5, maybe 10 years ago, we used to go to The Prince Of Wales most Sunday afternoons for the live music. Our favourite band was The Emmitt Till Band fronted by dear old Mick Lawson. Some Sunday afternoons it would be Mick and his good pal Dave Kelly also on guitar, just the pair of...

Hi Viv, the ancient 1930 aircraft in your photo is an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy 3-engine airliner. One was named City Of Birmingham and its registration marking was G-EBLO. Amazingly these aircraft actually had a bar! G

Hello Penelope, I don't remember the Lake House, but there is a new building, a retirement home I think, called Lake House Court between Court Lane and Lakehouse Road. I used to visit The Greyhound in the 1960's - did it close for a while and re-open? G

Hi Lyn, I remember The Pump! I met a friend there way, way back - he was a regular and we had a pint or several and a sausage sandwich. Bit of a dump, to be honest. According to what I just found on Google it's still there but closed. Your photo looks like Nell just walked right into an...

I'm with you there, Kat. Enough is enough. It's supposed to be getting a bit milder over the weekend....touch wood. I was thinking - I started work on 7 January 1963 in the middle of The Big Freeze, in the Chemistry Dept of Birmingham University. It wasn't snowing as I set out from home to...

Norfolk Brummie has got it absolutely correct. "The Beast From The East"....for the love of mike. When we lived in Ohio in the late 1970's we suffered - and I mean suffered - two very severe storms, one of which laid down over 30" of snow in 24 hours. It's easy for us to say, "Oh, the Americans...

Now I think about it, a school-friend of mine worked in the tower block, in an insurance office if I recall correctly. He wasn't there long after he left school in 1963, same time as me - his employer moved elsewhere. Also, when I got married in 1971, Mac Fisheries was by then in Birchfield...

Looking at Vivienne's list of businesses in Lynton Square, I think quite a few of them were short-lived. I worked for Handsworth Sports at their Soho Road shop 1968 - 1969 and sometimes had to go to the Lynton Square branch. I remember that there were several premises already closed and boarded...

At primary school in the 1950's discipline was strict, but physical punishment quite rare. Not so at grammar school up to the early 1960's. There, one or two of the teachers (we had to call them 'masters') were notorious for handing out physical punishment for even minor breaches of discipline...

Lyn, I remember that Indian restaurant quiet well but not its name! It was a regular place for a Saturday eat-out for me and friends back in the 1960's. Perry Barr Precinct was all right when it first opened, but in a quite short space of time companies started moving out, premises were boarded...

I was born in 1946 and found the 1950's formal and rather stifling. Could well have been down to my parents, but when I started work in 1963 a lot of things had changed, including fashion - in the 1950's it seemed that we all had to conform, whereas as the sixties wore on we could wear just...

The two prezzies I remember most fondly were a Frog flying model of a Spitfire, which inspired me to a hobby that has stayed with me for life, and a bit later a Diana 0.177 air-pistol, which on Christmas night my dad used to shoot down most of the decorations using 'safe' indoor pellets. All I...

Hmmm.....well, I wasn't quite 3 in 1949, so can't remember! I must say I'm surprised, though. Radiorails, what you say about Bevington Road not being a regular route but used for 'stabling' trams during Villa home matches, is interesting, and maybe that's what I remember, mistaking them for...