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Apologies for not having caught up sooner. The spreadsheet did have some details of profession, along with rank and regiment but I will not be able to access it until tomorrow. The problem I have is in transferring the material to something I can post here or elsewhere. The sheet is so wide that...

Balsall Heath Road was Stone, Clifton Rd was Giles.

I have also got lists of rank and regiment. The list does not include religion and probably wouldn't have detail if it did. I'd initially thought this might be churches. Somebody's first suggestion was St Barnabas. The next thing there would be to find out what has closed recently enough or...

I have the rest of the detail on a spreadsheet. As such it is difficult to post it here. Single columns are easy enough. This is a list of the addresses I've been given. 111 Brunswick Road, Sparkbrook 42 Howard St. Smethwick 68 St. Paul's Road Balsall Heath 124 Anderton Park Road Moseley 68...

That's why I chose to post this here. I suppose if it has worked once, it can work again.

This memorial was found by someone in a skip and has been passed to other people who are trying to find out where it came from so that it can be relocated. Although most of the people listed come from Balsall Heath there are some on there from Bordesley and Kings Heath. From the picture itself...

This memorial was found by someone in a skip and has been passed to other people who are trying to find out where it came from so that it can be relocated. Although most of the people listed come from Balsall Heath there are some on there from Bordesley and Kings Heath. From the picture itself...

Virgin moved twice. First to Bull St. then across the roundabout to the Megastore on Corporation St. I think they changed logos around the time of the second move.

Bootlegs are a little more questionable than counterfeiting. They're usually material that isn't usually available through legitimate sources. Most often they're live recordings. Some acts used to actively encourage bootlegging. Most notable of those was the Grateful Dead...

I still have a bunch of old vinyl records (a couple of thousand lps). They still get used. There's a bar in Kings heath where a bunch of us play our old records once a month.

I was at a heritage thing at the Roundhouse on Saturday and they had someone from the architects responsible. The green paint was apparently the closest match they could get to the original colour on the external metalwork which they found by cleaning down the layers on the metalwork they had to...

If you want a cheap record player you can get briefcase style ones from around £20 in argos. The recent wave of vinyl records are generally heavier than the older versions and more expensive. If they're re-issues, they tend to be re-mastered from the original tapes. It was said month's back that...

For what it's worth, the library of Birmingham has a fairly solid run of the Carnival magazine that Birmingham University put out to go with the annual carnival week (more or less) from the 20s (or earlier) into the 60s. It's in the archive so you have to ask for it - it was called "Carnival".

I spoke to one of the builders two days ago. The building should be finished in around 6 weeks. He also says that the pillars at the front would be getting new balls.

Haven't watched soap operas since the Newcomers finished. Vaguely remember a play at the rep with Noel Gordon and Polly James (James was a pro compared to Gordon) . I once did the tour of Pebble Mill where the official highlight was a demo of the work of the sound effects doing a bit for the...

Some time since I worked on computer systems full time but I was never the kind to mutter or curse no matter how bad things got.

Nowadays one version of linux has a much larger install base than windows and it's built for tablets and phones. Then again, the company behind it is generally regarded as bigger/worse than Microsoft ever was.

Why is it that some people always take video on their phone with it held vertically? Add to that it gets posted to somewhere that fills it to fit a horizontal screen with black bars.

Since there seem to have been a lot of you taking pictures around this time, I've got someone looking for a picture of Kench's chip shop as a single building (everything else demolished). I'm not entirely sure whether it was on Gooch St or Longmore St but it would be around the late 60s early...

I'm helping out as a part time researcher for our local history society. Their chairman has been asked if he can find anything out about Arthur William Hill who was "the smallest / shortest man in the Birmingham police specials" by his relatives. they have an old article from the Birmingham...