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It gets very busy on match days, so I guess the new taps will speed up the service and maximise takings, to help keep the pub going. Not so sure about having too many away fans in though. As has been said, the taps are not the issue. Keeping it open and retaining what makes it so important is.

I think this is going to be a lot different to those tower blocks. They will be occupied by people who can afford sky high rents to go with the sky high altitude. They will be less likely to be prone to the feelings of isolation, that people who were moved from areas in which they knew everyone...

Fair play to anyone that is going to live in those upper floors (I couldn't even go near those windows to look out of them, myself). I certainly wouldn't have gone up in that outside lift, let alone got out of it! :scream:

I guess it was more noticeable to me, with the bakery shop just a couple of shops up from us Lyn.

I remember the local bakery shop on the corner of Slade Road and Fentham Road was kept very busy. All the "regular's" bread was kept behind the counter with their names on it and Mr Salmon baked extra loaves to try to satisfy local shoppers who faced going without their "Mother's Pride".

Yes Lyn, I was at the semi finals and the final myself. It will be emotional at Villa Park on Saturday and I know a few tears will be in the eyes of the crowd when we pay our respects to Gary.

We lost the first of our 1982 European Cup winning team yesterday, the day before Aston Villa play again in Europe with that same trophy as the prize for the eventual winning team. Gary Shaw was a local lad from Kingshurst. He scored 79 goals in his 213 games for Villa. Gary was a big part of...

My grandfather was like Bert gassed and always had a weak chest following that. He was sent back to Blighty for hospital treatment, before returning to battle and seeing out the war. They were indeed a splendid generation and they went through so much. Nice to think that 30 years on they were...

It seems there may have been a fair few who fought in WW1 and then went on to be in the Home Guard in WW2 Chris. My grandfather was another, like your father and Bert. Thank you for sharing those photographs.

Just had a text message: "Your car has received a parking ticket . To avoid additional fines and potential legal action, please pay the penalty immediately" that is followed by a https:/qrco.de/bf...?..HSQ that for some reason (possibly because I'm very confident, that I haven't parked anywhere...

The racecourse at the Lower Grounds:

It seems very familiar to somewhere that I remember passing quite regularly, perhaps near the railway arches by New Canal Street in the early 60s or it may resemble something similar also associated with/near to the railway around Small Heath. I can't recall exactly where I'm thinking of, but...

Do you know who the children are and if they have connections to you, could you give a very rough idea of whereabouts in Birmingham that they may have lived? Few of us would have got away with the lad's haircut by the way, it's some way off the usual short back and sides, isn't it? ;)

it's a nice feeling isn't it? The last time I did the same was about 55 years ago!:grinning: ..with a pair of trousers.....

I think at least part of it is now, The Jaffray Centre Lyn. This is run by "Jaffray Care" which is a registered charity, whose focus is disabilities and complex health care needs. It comprises of a resource centre and 4 bungalows (Lime Court) on the site. Link...

Yes, having been opened as a General hospital in 1885, it later took chronic cases that were transferred from Birmingham general Hospital and also treated wounded soldiers during WW1, alongside children. From the 1950s and 60s it began housing geriatric patients, it closed around 1991 and was...

An interesting aerial view of Villa Park and the streets and houses surrounding it taken on 1 May 1951:

It is Clark's shoe shop in June 1968.

At Villa Park the term "HEITS" (Holte Enders in the sky) is used and in Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch they used the following: I think that it is a matter of choice really, I guess they all tell us the same thing, albeit with a slightly different tone.