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I think the lettering has just fallen off the sign over time. I once saw a video showing an unfortunate Street View picture. Someone looking online at Google Earth had noticed that the camera car had driven past a house (in Cornwall, if I remember correctly) and captured an image of a chap in...

Where abouts on the Alum Rock road, Compressorman? If you mean the Tilt Hammer down by Saltley Gate it was demolished a good while ago.

Many Happy Returns!

If you’re who I think you are, your videos on YouTube are excellent, Joseline. I’m looking forward to this!

It’s been a very long time since I played but the only club I remember being called Birmingham was the one at Portway.

There was a Bundy clock near the top end of Brandwood Park Road at least until the 1980s, and another one at The Fold at Pool Farm which was the terminus for the No.35 bus.

At Cotteridge island on the side of a row of shops there’s this (the pictures are from google street view), it’s been there as long as I can remember. It seems to depict a man and a woman dancing though I could be wrong, and is partly covered in mosaic tiles. I’ve no idea of its significance...

If anyone has any pictures that show T. Williams forge I’d hugely appreciate it if you could show them here.

Have a very happy birthday Richard.

Funny, they were discussing Tonibell ice cream and those plastic balls on Talking Pictures TV the other week. I have no recollection of Tonibell at all, and considering how much of a treat ice cream was I’m surprised.

Yes Lyn, it was certainly a treat from a van. I’m one of six children too though the eldest left home when I was born, and our Mom would often buy an oblong block of ice cream wrapped in thin cardboard (haven’t seen that for a while), divide it into slices and give it us between wafers, or in a...

As a child, who was your local ice cream man? During the ‘70s in Brandwood, Kings Heath I remember a chap called Dougie who sold the usual vanilla flavoured stuff that was squirted from a pump dispenser would do the rounds. I wasn’t a regular customer. Then another chap appeared on the scene, he...

That’s putting mildly.

It’d be great if your Dad could share his memories of the Jewellery Quarter here, Mark, both in general and of running DRH in particular for so many years. It can’t have been easy as it was very seasonal, in the months leading up to Christmas everyone was working flat out to fulfil orders, then...

Hello Mark, I can’t tell you how pleased and surprised I am at your reply! No.8 was exactly as you described it and you even remembered the dartboard. I wonder if you remember the old valve Pye radio that sat close by, it was always switched off at lunchtime for darts sessions. Yes, I remember...

At the foot of Allens Croft Road near the junction with Brandwood Park Road in Kings Heath stands an Elim church. A brick building now, when I lived close by in the 70s and 80s it was a good deal smaller and I seem to remember it was of wooden construction. Off on a tangent I know, but very...

I remember Gabriel’s from back in the early to mid 90s, I did some repair work to an outside tank or hopper if I recall correctly. I never went inside but I think at the time they were involved in stainless steel castings. The place sticks in my mind because while I was perched precariously on...

Nether Whitacre Church Hall.

I remember one of these corrugated steel churches in Kings Norton, close to the canal where Parson’s Hill meets Wharf Road on the bend of the road. Think it was painted green, but possibly black. No longer there, it was replaced by houses some time ago. Outside of Birmingham I’ve a feeling...

Thanks Viv, I always appreciate old pictures of Kings Heath, Kings Norton, Cotteridge, Stirchley etc.