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Thank you all for your help. MWS, your map shows me it was No171. Incidently, it also shows 69 Leamington Rd which was where I lived at that time. PJMBURNS, I assume they lived above the shop in 1954 but not sure for how long they were there. The electoral roll you posted made me smile because I...

I've tried all ways online to find a street map or Kelly's directory referring to the chip shop on Stoney Lane Sparkbrook in 1954. Looking at Google Earth I think the house number would have been around No 137 - 141. My Aunt Bessie (Betty) Middleham ran it then for a while with Uncle Frank. I...

Hi oldMohawk, love that first photo however, I thought that the 'now' photo didn't quite match (the road has an incline which the 'then' photo doesn't have. I think the original is on the corner of Nursery Rd but the opposite corner and you can just see the back of the billboards on the ariel...

I too had a Commodore 64 and later bought an Amiga 500+ which is still in the attic somewhere.

I remember taking my test to drive a bus. Amongst the many questions I was asked, the examiner asked me which vehicles were not allowed on a motorway. In my nervousness, one of the vehicles I said was articulated vehicles but in my mind I had said agricultural vehicles. It was only when he asked...

What a spectacular opening ceremony last night. Proud to say my Son and Son-in-Law were both volunteers. Over the next week I must go 'up town' to see that brilliant Brummie bull.

I too thought that it was a traffic light control box but then thought it looked like the guy on the left looks like he's moving it with a sack truck. Trouble is, there doesn't seem to be any wheels. Whatever it is, it seems to stand on feet which maybe suggests it is movable. I also think that...

Our re-enactor group were asked to to a dispersal display at Kemble in 2013. While we were there we got to look around inside the BBmf Lancaster and I took this video.

I was at the Walsall Aboretum car show today and was delighted to see the Lancaster flying over. I've seen it lots of times at 1940s events but never at a car show. It was travelling in a north-westerly direction so was probably returning home to RAF Coningsby from somewhere.

Whenever I went to my local chip shop I had a choice of which pie to buy. Telfers had two pies, small for 9d and large for 11d. If I could afford it I would buy the Fleur-de-Lys for 1/1d. Enjoyable as it was, I recall that I always seemed to only have enough to buy the large Telfer pie.

I used to get my bicycle parts from Thomas's.

In the absence of any photos available, the reason I originally made these images is to show my children & grandchildren where we used to live. The far house (next to the factory) was No9 where my wife lived before we were married. After we were married we lived in the front room of that house...

Hi brummy-lad, apart from the colourized ones, all photos posted on this website are original. Because this is largely only an interpretation of what I remember in a photographic form, I thought it might be deemed inappropriate. Having said that, I believe it to be pretty accurate.

I have yet to see any real photos of Whitehead St so, over the past few months I made one up. Using various personal photos,other photos, maps and a great deal of my memory I have made this video photo. Anyone living around Alma St or High St in the early 60s might also remember this scene. If...

Best wishes Maurice and hope you get well soon.

In the early 60s I used to go to Hawkins shop in High St every saturday lunchtime for whelks & a bowl of peas (bread basket inc). Never had jellied eels though.

Happy Birthday, hope you've had a great day.

I replied to the message JOHC sent me and put him on to "Birchfield Road Perry Barr" thread (page 36). I also add this 2001 Google Earth photo of the area he talks about which shows the tower block.

When I was 9yrs old in 1955-56, I lived at No 69 Leamington Road with Jack & Marie Bradbury. I remember going to that shop after the baker's van had delivered the unwrapped bread in a crate. Used to lick my finger and lift the crumbs from the wooden counter. Also bought my Palm toffee bars from...

I've always thought that Deritend meets Digbeth at the river Rea (Floodgate St). Then extends out to somewhere around Alcester St where it becomes Bordesley.