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Now that really does bring back memories! My mom too would also leave my dinner on a plate perched on a saucepan of water on the cooker for hours.

There's something about that little area around there that's quite peaceful, it really is an unspoilt part of Birmingham. I expect it will change when it's redeveloped.

Thanks for that, Lyn! Did you manage to visit The Long Boat?

"Try telling the kids today, and they won't believe yer." I've discovered a home movie of me and my friends that I thought I had mislaid.

Frozen windows on the inside. The Champions. The sound of milk bottles being carried. Shared national pride when England won the world cup. Butter in a bucket of water on really hot summer days. The man who lay on broken glass in the Bull Ring and passed his cap round for money. Bag of crisps...

New Meeting Street from Moor Street towards High Street Birmingham in 1963.

Piccadilly Arcade, New St (date not known).

The Radio WM shop, New Street (early eighties?)

Tesco's was around here in the mid-seventies (I seem to remember the building of it in 1973). A man who I worked with many years ago told me he had to report to the army recruitment office in Dale End when he was conscripted at the start of the Second World War.

Can anyone date this?

Haven't seen this photograph before of The Ship Ashore. It became The Outrigger, anyone know when and the reason for the name change? Those stairs kept going up and up...

I was so excited at discovering the 'original' photograph (#922) that I accepted the accompanying caption without question. Hopefully I've learned my lesson. Having said that, I found out a few things I didn't know.

https://normanfield.com/wp/index.php/brindley-place-then-and-now-the-netherton-tunnel/ I feel honour bound to find the orientation of this photograph and have discovered some interesting information. The key to the photograph in the original canal festival photograph I posted is the small...

Cripes, I'll get me coat!

Found this on eBay.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Accept-Billie-Bouncers-Half-Holidays-Leslie-M-Oyler-1111-The-Shoe-L/312036882604?hash=item48a6d8f8ac:g:fHoAAOSwg9dZu3vc

It was around this time that canals were viewed as an asset for tourism nationally. I remember going to a few canal festivals near The Long Boat in the 70s and 80s which were very popular but I'm not sure if they have any canal festivals in Birmingham now.

A Happy New Year to you, Astonian!

You're right Lyn. I think we are so lucky we have photographs, maps and other resources to 'reinforce' our memories (for want of a better term).

Thanks for that, Lyn, Never really noticed the blocks before (paint obscured it), just assumed it would be brickwork.

The building itself appears to be Georgian but what puzzles me is that it appears to be constructed of 'blocks' and not bricks. Anyone got an explanation about this?