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1970 was before my time of using the Grand Hotel so I do not remember this crockery. But it does show how many times the hotel has been closed and for what long periods it has been closed. It would have been 1979, the time I was at one of their previous grand reopennings

Just a note for you. Castle Road School did become Lightwoods School sometime in the early 1960s. Lightwoods have now taken over the St Hubert's School building as an annex and St Hubert's have moved to a new building in Moat Road on the site of the old Oldbury Grammar.

This would be to give some help at night during the black out.

Actually the trams on the Soho Road stopped running in 1939. During the war all the signposts were taken away. This probably also applied to the destination signs on the tram shelters. This was when there was a fear that German paratroops could land in the centre of Birmingham and get on a no...

I was driving through there a few days ago and was thinking, I am sure there used to be a subway here. This is the Google Street View today with no sign that there ever was a subway there. Question is, how do pedestrians cross the road? It is a long walk either up or down the hill.

I have spoken to my friend who says that he does not remember when the current building was built as he was working for Lloyds Bank in an office they had in Brindley Place but he used to go to meetings around about 2000 in Colmore Row. He was the one who told me that the part of the building now...

I have managed to find a photo of the 1960s Lloyds Bank Colmore Row but do not yet have a date when this was demolished. You may need to click on the picture to see it properly.

Maurice. Actually Westminster Bank was in the blank space on the map that Mikejee posted on the corner of Colmore Row and Newhall Street. It was then replaced by the NatWest Tower which during the past two years has also been demolished and replaced with another tower block. I have not been in...

I have just come across this thread having made a reference to Davenports on another thread so I am posting this link. http://www.davenports.co.uk/about-us/vintage-tv-ads/ I apologise if this link has been given before as i said I have just come across it. If you go to the link you will find...

Yes there is a part 2 but very difficult to find. I have not watched that yet but I thought it would be easy to find as I was offered it immediately after watching the first part. If you go to http://www.davenports.co.uk/about-us/vintage-tv-ads/ you will find several of the old cinema/TV ads and...

Have just been watching an old film about the history of Davenports Brewery It covers the story of the time in WWII showing the practice evacuations to the air raid shelter. It said that 4-500 people sheltered there at night and that there was a first aid post open day and night staffed by...

Many thanks Viv, I am passing that information on to my friend.

Viv Do you have any information about the location of Lloyds Bank at that time. A friend of mine has an old cheque drawn on Lloyds Bank Ann Street Birmingham and we were wondering if it was at the location next to Eden Place which became Lloyds Bank Colmore Row. David

I flew from the old terminal a few times in the 1970s and early 1980s but most of my international flights in those days I made by driving to Heathrow. The new terminal openned in 1984 and since then all my flights have been from Birmingham except for a couple from Gatwick.

I think the aircraft would have been owned by Railway Air Services, a joint operation by the big four railway companies and Imperial Airways. You were actually advised to send your luggage by the railways Lugage in Advance service.

I have checked the Birmingham Library Catalogue and there are 2 copies in the Reference Library. A history of the Birmingham telephone area Tupling, R. E.1978

Fox furs lasted until the 1950s and when I was clearing the house of a great aunt, I found one. To me as a child I thought they were horible as some had the legs dangling down.

I knew of the old connection between Rackhams and Wilkinson & Riddell but I did not know that they were on adjacent sites. I knew Wilkinson & Riddell in Cornwall Street as my mother had an account there. It would be only a few years later that they moved again to Priory Queensway where their...

One of the Poirot TV programmes featured Poirot being mistaken for Lobby Lud, although they may have used a different name.

Following on from the posts about what happend to MEB. This is the latest in the saga. Copied from The Business Desk, a news website. (I did a copy and paste so the spelling is not my responsibility.) Warwick-based National Grid is set to buy Western Power, the UK’s largest electricity...