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I always liked the music in Pollyanna's. This is from the 70's, sorry I cant be more specific when:

Crikey, those photographs have taken my breath away! I can still remember my father leading me up Brearley Street from Newtown Row with a scarf wrapped around my face because of the thick smog. I can still smell the metal in the 'air' and hear the regular beat of the machines from the...

Thanks for getting back to me, Alan. The bloke I knew was a couple of years older than me and other than football, I didn't really know him. I was a regular in The College up until 1981 and I don't recall seeing him around then.

I used to play football with a Steve Roydes (Rhodes?) in the park off College Road, close to Twickenham Road. I think he worked as a taxi driver for a while.

The Grapevine https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b3_grapevine.html

The city is already paying a hefty price for these games. It's not only the resulting traffic jams and the loss of the train station but the potential damage to our history and natural environment . https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/archaeologists-dig-sutton-park-ahead-20523858...

Any ideas if this was for a film or television show...

Fanny's later became UB's (I think some of the band members bought it), I went in there a few times but The Bodega was under The Filibuster. I only went in there once and seem to remember it was decorated like a traditional Spanish bar with the ends of large barrels stuck on the walls. I only...

That was it! Memories coming back to me now trying to suppress adolescent sniggers as I walked by it with my girlfriend. I'm sure I went to a bar once under The Filibuster called 'The Bodega', can you shed any light on that?

I remember their was a Daddy Long Legs Club by the flyover in the Seventies but based on the stories I heard about the place I never had the nerve to go there. Speaking of strange clubs...I worked at Newman Tonks in the Seventies and I recall after a strike meeting (I think it was late 1978) we...

Who was 'Burlington'? There was Burlington Street and Burlington School nearby. In Birmingham, there is the MacDonald Burlington Hotel (formerly The Midland Hotel) and there was a passage through it known as Burlington Passage (it split Hudson's Bookshop in two).

Looking at the unusual brickwork, I think you may be correct. Here is my photograph of Burlington Hall taken in the 1960s (the sign over the door says, 'Burlington Hall, Neighbourhood Centre'):

You might find this potted biography of Mike Burney of some interest Maurice... https://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.com/2014/11/britain-is-no-longer-country-for-and_16.html

When I came home from school I used to find small strips of film reel by the side door of the cinema. How old was The Newtown Palace?

Thanks' for that, Lyn. It suddenly occurred to me that I worked at Fine Fare, a supermarket in (Lynton Square?) Perry Barr Shopping Centre where I was a 'trainee manager' (shopping trolley rounder upper). I lasted two weeks! The picture house on the corner of Newtown Row and New John St was...

Apologies if this has been posted before.

I came stumbled across WA Green purely by accident. He was a prolific artist, working mainly in pen and ink. He died in 1984 and his pen and ink drawings are of buildings and landscapes of Birmingham and the Midlands, his work was published in local newspapers and magazines. Here's the link to a...

This photo is a better quality one: