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This may interest some of you. The Nightingale is starting a heritage/memories project to celebrate 50 years of existence. For some of that time it seems to have been a private members club (and out on the Stratford Road) so you might have missed it. If you're interested and have anything to...

Some clarification needed. If born in 1903 he'd be 116, if 96 he'd be born around 1923. Which? Yes, there would have been consultants and other hospital staff of Asian descent at the end of the 60s. Not many and possibly specialist. Do you have a last name? If he was known as Michael, he may...

what was the site? This list is much too short to be useful unless it's tied to something specific to Birmingham. The date on House of Wax is the US premiere (see above).

The "Community hub" is open for business and has been for some time. They rent out space for art studios, a gallery, and any kind of event. There was a wedding going on there last week. It isn't necessarily open to the general public. If the gallery is open you'll see a sign outside with the...

There's something odd about that. According to the wikipedia article House of Wax was released generally (to all cinemas) in the USA on 25th April 1953. There had been a premiere in New York a fortnight earlier but that would still mean the Rialto had it a week before most of the USA. According...

If there was any thought of evangelism, I would suppose there would have been something to say that the children had to attend Church/Sunday School belonging to that particular denomination. Was there?

As part of Birmingham Heritage week, Balsall Heath History Society will be holding an exhibition at the BMI about the Middlemore homes with some of the case studies taken from their recent lost children project https://www.facebook.com/lostchildrenproject/ The exhibition will run from the 14th...

The thing you get more often today is that there is so much music available and no focus on record charts. Consequently you get rankings that aren't driven by the younger people. Since that feeds back to the streaming services, radio stations etc. you get actual sales that include material that...

They say vinyl records are making a comeback, even outselling streams. Trouble with that is that streaming a record will pay someone slightly less than a penny and a vinyl record will cost you £20 (they only count the new ones). As to the thing about the music going out of style. Remember 50...

I remember the shop but can't remember what it was called. They must have known some DJs there because they had quite a few stamped "not for resale".

The shop closest to Dawlish Rd would have been S G Beckett on the other side of Tiverton Rd. The one close to Ryde Park road was Music Box. These from 1972 Kellys

for what it's worth, Diskery still has something approaching a bargain bin. You can find some of the real mass market stuff at £1 a piece.

I remember seeing this a lot when I was using a local network at a local trust with several different buildings. There were various reasons at that point. Some of the drives on the network, I did not have permission to access, I would show their existence but not let me in. Sometimes it showed...

As I remember it, latif's used to use the other half as storage before the furniture wholesalers moved in. That was sometime in the 80s or 90s. The current state has happened this century. These pictures seem to have come from the Rose's bit of the building. I don't know what the bit next to it...

The problem with not upgrading is that things start not working. You find your anti-virus, for example, will no longer support windows X in it's latest version so you can't get the newer version then you can't get updates for the old version. The same sort of thing happens with the drivers that...

From what I remember, those wooden counters were at the front of the building just above reception but when I looked at the building last saturday morning those windows were covered in green netting. Amazing there's anything left of the counters. What'd the lower floor look like?

Next batch of old bags. These are scanned from singles/CD bags rather than photographed. Highway 61 only dealt CDs and was up at Fletchers Walk by the library. A HMV logo from when they still put the dog on everything. Plastic Factory from the far end of Corporation St - not the same place as...

Amazing you can remember what record you bought where in town after all this time. I must have bought a lot of albums there but, if asked which, I could only make guesses (best guess would be some of the early Jefferson Airplane but there would have been a whole lot more). I know I got quite a...

I have a large drawer full of them. I also have most of a run of Brum Beat from issue 2 at the end of the 70s to the point they decided to start charging for it. As I said, if there's anything particular, I can try to find it. Some of the bags can be tricky - matter of flattening them out...

Here's a few more of the old bags. See which ones you remember. The upload option said thumbnail and I did that but you can see the larger version if you just click. Some of these were chosen fo some oddity. Virgin shows their original address. Reddingtons were on Cannon St by Rackhams this...