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Hi Lyn You sent me this photograph several years ago! I was quite shocked to see it. My mother took us back Allesley Street to visit Mrs Crowe later on in 1968 after we had moved to Kingstanding. I remember the mixed emotions I had when I stood outside my old house and watched the workmen inside...

Mrs Crowe's shop is behind the advertisements (the face) in the centre of the photograph. The window of my bedroom is on the left of the photo. Mrs Crowe had a bench to the left of the entrance of her shop where my sister and I would sit on and chat to her.

I remember Sid. For some reason I seem to remember he liked cigars?

I remember this so well, Lyn. I ran out of Bogart's with my Oxford Bags billowing in the wind while running towards the 33 bus stop outside the Odeon. Unfortunately, I tripped over my 2ft high platform shoes I was wearing and twisted both my ankles quite badly...:kissing:

Many years ago in the early seventies, I used to play for a boys football team based in Witton called The Wyrley Gunners. It was run by an ex Aston Villa (1938 - 46) player called George Lunn. George was quite an imposing tall man and I always remember him in his Trilby hat and trench coat...

I remember the shop well. My then girlfriend (now my wife) lived in Newlands Rd, just off Cartland Rd. It was the hot summer of 1976 and we used to walk past the shop on the way to The Three Horse Shoes. The reason I remember the shop so well was that displayed in the window was a Winchester...

I was watching an episode of Dalziel and Pascoe (S12, E4 'Project Aphrodite, filmed in 2007) last night. Here they are walking out of City Hospital (always Dudley Rd Hospital to me, I was born there) and I'm certain that this pub is The Birmingham Arms on Dudley Road. Any thoughts?

Here is Asimov's itinerary of his visit to Birmingham until his departure on the Queen Elizabeth 2 luxury ocean liner on Sunday, 16th June 1974: Thursday 13th June 2.00-5.00 pm: Birmingham Book Signing Sessions - (2.00-2.45 pm) W.H. Smith & Son, 29 Union Street, Birmingham 2; (2.45-3.30 pm)...

I loved visiting the Andromeda Science Fiction Bookshop in Summer Row in the 70s. One of the highlights of my visits was meeting Isaac Asimov the author and getting his autograph, in June 1974.

It was definitely 1974, I'd left Littlewood's in September, 1975. My own theory was that he was visiting someone in Birmingham. My only other claim to fame in Littlewood's was when Peter Moore, whose family owned Littlewood's Stores (he was later to become chairman of Littlewood's in 1977)...

I have a request to make. In December 1974 I was working in Littlewood's in the city centre. In the run up to New Year, Charles Hawtrey (from the Carry On films) entered the store. He was accompanied by two burley 'body guards' and was wearing a poncho and dark John Lennon type glasses. To be...

Sorry, I saw Charlie Mytton's name mentioned and I laughed out loud. I was meeting my mate Phil on a Saturday evening in the summer of 1976 in the upstairs lounge of The Windsor. I was on my own in the lounge apart from Liz the Irish barmaid. At about 6.45pm in the stifling heat I heard these...

The Parisian in Cannon St was bought by Davenport's Brewery from M & B. The top floor by the entrance was redeveloped for commercial premises but the basement was brightly lit and covered in mirrors and was opened as a pub called Cagney's (maybe Davenport's wanted to cash in on the success of...

I went to Mr Bill's in the 70s / 80s when it sold Lowenbrau Lager and the music was the "Oggy, oggy oi" variety of German music, not the heavy metal music on the flyer/poster. The photograph to the right of the poster/ flyer shows Needless Alley (in the 70's?). The entrance to Mr Bills is...

The supervisor of the loading bay was Ken Wingfield and I think his chargehand was called Arthur. There was a spray shop behind the packing area where the Panic Bolts were painted. On Hospital Street, the 'Goods In' had one man who ran that called Kim.

The King Charles, King's Road...

I went there in the mid-seventies and seem to remember that the lounge had an artificial tree in the middle of it filled with plastic parrots (I'm being serious!).

It was called was The Timberley when I used to go there in 1976 / 1977. It was on on the corner of Hurst Lane / Chester Rd, Castle Bromwich.

If I remember correctly, Bogart's had a 'Bierkeller' in the basement (there was a small pool table room on the ground floor near the entrance). There was also a Mr Bill's Bierkeller in Needless Alley. The Parasol was a basement pub with the entrance on Hill Street. I liked The Parisian which had...

Nobody slams The Doors...:mad: ....I'll get my coat.