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I worked in the North Works machine shop and was gone by 1979. I had friends and acquaintances all over the plant and I'm not aware of a foundry in the East Works in my time there. However the factory was running for 26 years after I left and I couldn't vouch for the years after I left. I just...

The foundry was North Works, next to the North Works machine shop.

Yardley Ex Service had a Sunday football team in the Coronation league for years back in the 70s. Not sure when that team finished.

Happy Birthday Janice.

I think the pub's The Adam and Eve. The Anchor's further down on the corner of Rea Street.

Viv. There would have been a lot of changes in that area to accommodate the big island called Bordesley Circus and the bypass, Small Heath Highway which was created to relieve the traffic on Coventry Road. It completely changed the landscape in that area.

My memory, and I hope I'm correct, is that Bolton Road ran in a straight line to the railway bridge as seen on #66 where it joined what I think was Bordesley Park Road. I can't help with the dates of re-routing though.

I can see the dark space you're alluding to Janice but I am looking at the patterned area in isolation. There are many features in the photograph that could be inclusive or viewed as separate entities. In suggesting that the patterned area may be the side of a railway bridge I am viewing it in...

I thought that the structure with the pattern which it has been suggested could well be the side of a railway bridge could be exactly that. I can't see a gable end or a door. Maybe I'm missing something. I can't think why it would have a pattern on but I still think it could be the side of a...

The lie of the land and the buildings far off in the distance put me in mind of the bottom of Bolton Road, Small Heath as it goes down to Coventry Road. Just speculation though.

The title of this thread is most satisfying. The original name of the station, Small Heath and Sparkbrook is important to me and, maybe others. It brings back memories of GWR and all it stood for. The other side of Golden Hillock Road on the corner of Anderton Road was where we train spotters...

Bricklyn Farm and Bricklyn Cottages are separate properties in Bulls Lane. Bricklyn Farm entrance is opposite Wishaw Lane. Bricklyn Cottages is actually one property on the opposite side of Bulls Lane around 100 yards down from Bricklyn Farm entrance. I was the rural postman in Bulls Lane for...

I lived in the adjacent Dolobran Road from my birth in 1945 until I got married in 1965 so I have relatively good memories of the 50s and early 60s. I can't recall any war damaged property although there were newish flats and maisonettes at the start of Grantham Road from the corner of Farm...

Echo was an early margarine after the rationing was lifted. During the rationing, margarine was marketed as "special margarine" in greaseproof and the wording in brown. I remember it so well. I had only tasted margarine being born in 1945 and couldn't get used to the creaminess of butter. For...

I don't think Peacock's had more than one location in Ladypool Road. Certainly in 1958 they were in an established spot. I was 13 years old then and the store had been in the same building as far back as my memory goes. I'm reasonably sure if was still there when I got married and left...

We went to Birmingham Town Hall yesterday evening to see Lindisfarne. The taxi driver dropped us on the corner of Margaret St and Edmund St and said he'd pick us up at the same place later. He could have said "Meet me on the Corner". Great show but how we miss Alan Hull.

In the '50s our family used to travel by coach to North Devon and I'm reasonably sure the coach took a break at Black and White Coaches at Cheltenham. North Devon's further on than Weston super Mare of course so the breaks may have been different.

Sad news. He was a source of many and varied subjects and will be greatly missed. RIP Dennis.

Who could forget The Adventures of Robin Hood? Richard Greene in the lead role and Alan Wheatley as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Compulsory viewing in the late 50s.

Victorian box flush in the wall at the corner of The Driffold and Wyndley Lane, Sutton Coldfield. No photo I'm afraid.