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Should have mentioned it earlier but, if I remember correctly, the development had pages online that showed pictures of the old Typhoo wharf which could maybe have been compared with the picture on post #6 above to find out whether that was the wharf in question.

BRUTEs were those large blue wire-sided trolleys that you'd see on station platforms sometimes. You fill them up with sacks of letters/parcels (I did two weeks on parcels one Christmas) and they'd go down to the train. "British Railways Utility" is more likely to be correct this time.

If that was who she was with, it would have to be 1950/51 before she divorced Minelli. A year later and she has a new husband and baby daughter.

At the back of the old Typhoo factory on Bordesley St there's a canal wharf. I remember seeing something about a redevelopment of the site that would also "restore" the canalside.

If you want radio for the UK there's at least one digital station https://www.jazzfm.com/ but since a lot of you will also have internet connections you might want to try these https://www.jazz24.org https://www.jazzradio.com/ or something from the list at...

https://www.autonews.com/section/ussales If the figures shown on the link are to be believed - and I see no reason to doubt them. What sells now are Land Rover, Jaguar, and Mini (in that order). Sales for the others are minimal (less than a couple of hundred a month). You might see more of the...

The thing about numbers themselves is different from measure. People assume that everything is counted in decimal and that's all there is to it. The language (not just English - it happens in French and German) shows bits that used to work in dozens or scores as well. It's only when we get past...

I never quite understood the larger measurements of distance. No problem with Yards or Miles but all of those odd ones in between that no-one much seemed to use. I suppose Furlongs would have been easy but no-one seemed to care outside of horse racing. I don't know of anyone that actually used...

I tried looking up the Birmingham Carnival (it was called that between the 20s and the 60s) at the library some time back. They had copies of the magazine that went with the event and the parade route changed over time. At the end it just went round Colmore Row and Great Charles St (if I...

Not joking so much as wondering where all the people who go to such events in Birmingham (rather than Sutton) are. There are enough events in the city according to the link I posted on page 1 or guilbert53 posted a couple of hours ago. I either can't get to these or can't afford such things at...

Considering this thread is entitled Birmingham Jazz, there seems to be a lot about what's on in Sutton and a general avoidance of Birmingham. Maybe it's just that you think Birmingham Jazz is dead for you.

The trouble with Moseley Bog on that line is that it was turned over to housing at some point. A guided tour will tell you which parts of the "Bog" were people's back gardens. Large parts of it have been planted recently. I remember going through there a few years back and being told to avoid...

I've always said "forrid" too and I'm from Surrey. It's not really that regional.

Moseley Bog is more Wake Green/Hall Green than Moseley but there's an address on the Alcester Road I'd forgotten about that would count as Moseley.

Curiously they decide to attach Tolkien to Moseley. The historical stuff I've seen on him seems to cover anywhere but. There's a lot in Hall Green (Sarehole Mill, the cafe, the library). Someone who does presentations on Tolkien's life uses a lot of photos of the country beyond Kings Heath if I...

I watched part of their output on Sunday and it looks like they're still learning how to do things. The green-screen stuff on the news bulletins has some odd lighting which makes people look like they've got an outline. There are also shows that could get better content - or at least I hope they...

Try these:- Phone 0121 234 5000/5430 Postal Address BPM Media (Midlands) Floor 6, Fort Dunlop, Fort Parkway, Birmingham, B24 9FF It's the published contact details for the Mail. I don't know if it's only the newsdesk but it's worth asking if they can run you back issues. They might even want...

I don't know if this helps at all, I've just taken the repaired picture above and added the colour information from a corrected version of the colour image provided

Only slightly adrift from this - back in the 90s I used to know a girl called Lin Grant. She said her dad (a local guy I never met) used to play sessions with Brubeck way back(Take 5 days?). She'd been surprised when Robert Plant turned up at her dad's second(?) wedding. Seems Plant had been a...

Never had the book but I saw the film and heard the radio show. Looking it up on the internet, there seems to have been celebrity interest in the soundtrack - the radio version is by David Bowie and the movie version was by Roger Waters.