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I have not been in the area for sometime for obvious reasons although I do intend to go there as soon as possible because a lot has changed since I was last in Broad Street. Because of this I am speaking from memory but I am sure the date over the door is something like 1867. Unless there was...

Bob Wilson's Fun Fairs used to be based in Stratford upon Avon but looking at their website they now appear to be based in Albrighton on the Wirral and are a national organisation rather than a local outfit. The other large fun fair in our area used to be Pat Collins who were based in Bloxwich.

Thanks for the work various people have done on these latest photos.

I just had a look at the Unitarian Historical Society Website https://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/hsrecords4.html If you page down till you come to West Midlands it lists various churches etc in Birmingham but I did not see the Mission that you mention. As a mission it would probably be...

St Jude's church. The site is now occupied by the Albany Banquetting Suite. St Jude's Passage still runs along between the Banquetting Suite and the hotel. There were some photos of the church posted on Facebook a day or so ago but I cannot now find them.

Bit ambiguous about long distance services as I was able to use the tickets in the late 1950s on the X numbered services travelling to Nottingham, Northampton and Leicester. I believe after deregulation some doubledeckers even got to the Lincolnshire coast.

Jimmy Young recorded The Man from Laramie back when we did not get American records so we used to get British artists recording cover versions. Jimmy Young lived long enough for his record to go out of copyright because when he recorded it copyright on records lasted only 50 years.

I may have mentioned these items before. The Midland Red garage at Bearwood used to have a branch off the Bearwood Road tramline for the Parcels Express tramway service. During a clearance at one point of old items from Bearwood a friend of mine rescued the accounts of the bus company for, I...

Rev David Collyer had financial problems concerning the regeneration of the Nechells Baths. It is better that I say no more.

I remember that scene in the 1950s but this looks older than that. The room to the left was a cafe and the house was also used by the Sons of Rest who seemed to have a base in all the Birmingham Parks.

70 years ago? I did not realise I was that old.

I went to George Dixon Grammar School which was split at that time between City Road and Five Ways. I used to collect the red 1d tokens from the school secretary if I needed to go between the two schools.

I have just come across this You Tube video which tells of the Chemical Canal and goes on to Rattlechain Lagoon

I can remember 'pig bins' in the road until just before the mid 1950s. All pig food now has to be treated so just collecting waste food is not allowed.

Many thanks for posting these photos. I am just wondering if any of our members who have access to newspaper archives can find the articles.

I have not read this yet but I thought it would be interesting https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Girls-Grammar-School-1950s-1960s/

Never saw the film Clochemerle but I remember the 1972 TV series. Have actually been to the village on which the story was based Vaux-en-Beaujolais north of Lyon. It even had a Clochemerle sign on the side of a hill.

Years ago I was in the Plough and Harrow Hotel when Bill Maynard checked in. He had been booked as an after dinner speaker possibly by Round Table and he saw the order of business for the dinner and went off the deep end because they had scheduled someone to speak after him. He said that was an...

The church in the painting would be St Mary's, Handsworth parish church, which is in Hamstead Road so not the church you knew in Soho Road. However it appears that the church has lost the pinnacles on the tower at some time. The church you are thinking of could be St Michaels Handsworth which is...

I did not recognise the second master who was walking into church with Tom Rumsby. I presume Wally Walker had retired by then. I did recognise L.E.Olver (Leo) at the black board. He was my form master and maths master in 3B, his first year at GD.