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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b223m0/britain-in-bloom-series-1-12-stetchford I saw about three minutes of this, but it's on iPlayer.

Strange to see!

Thanks to everyone who jogged my memory! I think it had three floors? But so did the Bull Ring one, or perhaps that was the one that had three floors. Occasionally it appears in a dream, as does Lewis's.

I was in Birmingham last month, and sitting upstairs with my husband in Pret-A-Manger I was trying to overlay my memories of that end of New Street on what's there now. It was hard. I couldn't remember where Woolworth's used to be, for instance!

The first item on this programme is about dessert shops, a new thing, apparently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ztycd

The brickwork is lovely. Trying to visualise New Street, I can't place this at all.

There was a rocking horse like that in Garrison Lane park!

I remember it (often used to pass it on the way home) but not the Blue Bird sign.

It's amazing how things change yet remain the same, if that makes sense.

Liquorice toffees were often cylindrical - I wonder why? Treacle toffees and rum and butter were also among my favourites.

Fibromyalgia is a horrible thing to have, Smudger. The left-over Easter eggs being sold for half price in Waitrose reminded me that Rackhams used to break up any left-over eggs and sell them as broken chocolate.

I used to like Fry's Chocolate Sandwich, but don't remember them looking quite like this. Last had one in the mid-70s which I bought on New Street Station. More recently, Marks Spencer used to make one that had layers of plain, white and milk chocolate.

It wasn't a false memory, then! The collection at the Pen Room is huge.

I went there with my husband this week, and found it far more extensive than I'd imagined, with masses of exhibits. The volunteers are very knowledgeable and friendly, and spent a lot of time with us, helping us to make nibs (mine wasn't very good!). Has it always been where it is now? I have a...

It's snowing in the south east as well, Viv! I don't think I ever went into the shop, but I remember the balcony (I think). A mysterious place, somehow.

Would there be any point in writing to the Evening Mail and asking if anyone has a photo of the house?

There seemed a lot of Tom Jones! Glad they included Donovan. There was an article in the Waitrose weekly paper about the programme, which said that the mother had been quite ill at one point from eating a lot of bread. She doesn't usually eat white flour, apparently, and in the earlier...

Chloroform!! Crikey. I remember Famel cough syrup, which was horribly sweet. And speaking of coughs, can you still buy cough candy?

It really doesn't look very nice, does it?

Sweet tobacco...I think so. Weren't the packets yellow? You can still buy it from the retro sweets places online, I think.