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The mosaic step of the Wimbush shop Stratford Road Hall Green, date unknown Source (accessed 19/3/2023 @ 08:58 am)

I found these pictures of Wimbush tokens , I assume they were exchanged for goods in the Wimbush shops ?? Source https://www.galata.co.uk/wimbush-bread-token-5d (accessed 19/3/2023 @ 08.00 am)

I love the candles for the birthday cake 1d , Wimbush was always iconic with Small Heath as you walked up from the Vine you passed Butlers (Lucas) the swimming baths , library, and Wimbush’s onto the Coventry road. Happy days

Attached is a link to Warwickshire railways, when opened the document shows in some detail the amount of coal used for gasification at Nechells, Saltley , and Windsor street. It show the railway, pits,etc. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/bham_gasworks.htm Source...

Johnny082 you are so right , my memories of the late 50’s / early 60’s on a Thursday having toast made from stale bread for tea , but on a Friday when my Father came home from working away all week we had fish and chips. I tell my grandchildren of my upbringing in Small Heath in a house with no...

Attached, a picture of the queue for coke at Windsor Street gas works in the 1940’s, all the proms and pushchairs to get the much prized coke home. Source : unknown, part of a small collection of pictures / sketches I have been given access by an old works colleague from WMGB, again my thanks...

Hello cookie273uk, If I am correct , your painting shows Nechells / Saltley gas yard looking from the Albion Vaults perspective (Cato Street) . Which evokes my memories of Birmingham of my time as a child, sadly gone for ever now.

Attached, is a rare picture/hand-drawn sketch of Windsor Street gas works. The date is unknown but shows the old retort houses and railway to feed the retorts, coal gas production, and tar collection. This illustrates coal-to-town gas production in Birmingham in the past and the materials...

Happy birthday

This continued cold snap has brought more birds to mine and my neighbours garden a the wooded park close to use. Found this link on the RSPB site to help identifying birds. https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/ Source ...

An advertisement for Kunzle cakes the wonderful and calorific Showboat range Source http://virtualspacetravel.blogspot.com/2014/05/kunzle-cakes.html accessed 13/3/2023 @ 19.45 hrs

Yes, if I recall it had a decent car park, patio area to front, and an extension to the rear. The acces road to it was not the great and poorly lit as I recall.

In the late 90’s a new technique for replacing the gas mains with minimal excavations was introduced, and some representatives for Australia came to view the technique on site . As they were in hotels we took them out the Crooked House , they were amazed by the pub and its history. The landlord...

As a young boy I had a part time job at Eatonways Coaches on the Coventry Road (next door to Bill Bedder‘s Fish and Chip shop) , and would regularly go to other coach operators in Birmingham , Bowens - Cotterills Lane Stockland - Marsh Hill Erdington Smiths - Sparkhill As all the drivers seemed...

I worked on a tunnelling / pipeline project where the pipeline terminated in Southall Gas yard, at the rear of the site was the Grand Union Canal. Both the client and main works contractor in conjunction with the local authority and local community group cleared overgrown vegetation, dredged a...

Pictures taken yesterday while walking from Windsor Street to town. Note the obligatory abandoned pushchair of the RHS really frustrates me how canals are treated as a dumping site for unwanted items. please note no citation to photo as take by me 11/3/2023 @ 13.34 pm hope this satisfies members !!

Weston super Mare for 12s 3d , those really were good old days

My post#14 on the construction of the Spitfire makes reference to Lucas’s engineering (electrical and instrumentation) contribution to the Spitfire, there is a memorial booklet that Lucas produced to commemorate WW2 titled ‘Lucas at War‘. As a youth, one of the older players in a cricket team...

The link below will take you to Woolworths history and the embassy record label https://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/1950s-embassyrecords.htm Source https://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/1950s-embassyrecords.htm, accessed Sunday 26/2/2023 @ 08.37 am Hopefully my citation is accurate enough for all...