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Thanks Rob, from that Kelly’s entry I can see Cartwright was the bread shop and the greengrocer and wool shop were the other way around. No.166 is puzzling, listed as “Nash W. hardware dlr” it was a launderette when I lived there.

That’s them. The chippy was the newsagents when I lived there. How old are these pictures, John?

Commenting on another subject has prompted me to post this thread. Just up the road from my childhood home in the 70s was a row of ten shops on Yarningale Road. Starting at one end there was a bookies, then a tiny chemist, then what we called the bread shop (no baking onsite as I recall, it was...

Great post, Viv. I remember going to the laundrette in the evening with my mom several times as a nipper in the mid 70’s, there was one in the row of shops at the bottom of Yarningale Road in Brandwood. I think our washing machine must have been broken because she normally did our laundry in a...

Years ago I listened to an item on the radio about a study that had been done regarding British accents. Recordings of people from all over Britain were sent to Universities all over the world, and English speakers there were asked to listen to them and say which ones they liked most, and why. I...

Well I never knew that, you learn something new every day!

If you search “Birmingham Anchor Exchange“ online you can find out more. I believe it was one of a handful of hardened telephone exchanges built across Britain at the dawn of the Atomic Age but later more powerful weapons rendered them too vulnerable. It makes you wonder what other unknown...

If I drank “Up Town” as it were, it was usually after work on my way home. I worked in Hockley and later Digbeth so they tended to be pubs I passed on the way to getting a bus in the city centre. Some of these I only visited once and others fairly regularly. I recall the Brown Derby on Colmore...

Happy Birthda, Brenda

Happy New Year to everyone here!

Yes, that’s the one! Thank you!!

Is it possible to show that map further down Adderley Road, please? I sometimes use a garage there opposite The Grove by Adderley Park, it’s a single storey building with a flat roof but has very heavy steel reinforcements in its structure. I’ve long wondered about it’s original purpose and...

I began using Robert Tuckey several years ago because I got so fed up with the rubbish I was getting at supermarkets. Beef, lamb and pork that tasted of very little, flavourless chicken that was full of water, bacon that shrivelled away to nothing in the pan and sausages that seemed to be made...

If anyone is looking for a good butcher I highly recommend Robert Tuckey at Furnace End near Coleshill. They slaughter local beasts on the premises and the meat is aged beautifully. Their sausages are the finest I’ve ever eaten, their bacon (which they smoke themselves) is just as good, they...

In my teens I had to make frequent visits to a particular bank for my employer. One of the cashiers I’d chat to there was a very pleasant, large young lady who unfortunately suffered from what looked like really quite bad psoriasis. She was absent for a few weeks and when I saw her again she...

A very merry Christmas to everyone here. Remember, if you love someone, tell them while you still can.

I’ll second that. I used to go there in the 80s and I remember it as a dark, warren like place. Interesting.

R.I.P Lynne

I think there’s various theories as to why Hitler never authorised the use of poison gas to be used against Britain. Obviously, he was well aware that should he do so the favour would most likely be returned tenfold. I believe he had himself been gassed in WWI and knew its effects first hand...

I remember doing just the same thing.