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In recent years I've often wondered why my school was called Gower St School when only a small part of it was actually in Gower St. The block we used for woodwork,metalwork & pottery was on Lozells Rd between the Police station & St Pauls church. The block (which still stands today) that had the...

Hi Steve, yes, we may well have encountered each other during that time. More so if you went to the cafe on the corner of Price St & Loveday St. I was always in there playing the jukebox. I reckon I played "Tell Laura I Love Her" so many times I could have bought the record.

Seeing the name Cora Watkins running pubs makes me think that she might be the Watkins family I lived with at 136 Victoria Road in 1958. She was German and her husband was Bill Watkins. They had two sons but I can't remember their names. A few years later I heard that she was running a pub in...

The new development near the current entrance (where the Iron House was ) will be the new visitor centre. Here are two videos they have put out.

Looks like this building next to the Hall of Memory.

I was at the BCLM 1940s event last week and took a few photos of the proposed 40s,50s,60s street site while I was there. The Fairground has gone and there are several footings up at the Institute end. Hope to see further progress in the coming months.

Post #38. I remember that day. We had moved from Granville St to Warwick St Bordesley the year before. We always called the Managing Director Bill Maddocks.

Does anyone know where this arial photo of Lozells originated? I would like to purchase a copy. I have looked on the Britain From Above website but cannot find this photo. I have also noticed that Birchfield Road (off Six Ways ) is labelled incorrectly as Handsworth Wood Road.

BCLM chips are great and there are nice chips around today but without that particular taste of nostalgia.

brummie-lad, I posted this photo a few months ago on the Park Lane-Aston thread #262. It was made merging two familiar photos. Unfortunately, although using real photos, I could only make a representation of the chip shop owing to the Give way sign obscuring it on the original photo.

Loved those chips. They had a particular flavour, something to do with the fat they used I suppose. Still got a memory of the newspapers at the back with which they wrapped the chips.

Another view of The Star in the early 70s. The building on the opposite corner of Feltham Road used to be The Bull's Head Inn. Now the building is used as a Mosque.

Remember that Birchfield road scene and more. Lots of diversions at that time when demolition of buildings and Six Ways underpass was being constructed. I lived in Victoria road and at one time the pile driver noise went on all day for about a month. That particular piece of road is still one...

The only Mansfield House now is a block of flats in Chelmsley Wood. I've found a census from 1891 which actually states Edward Preston of Mansfield House. This was the son of Edward Preston 1798-1883 who went on to change the company to Edward Preston & Sons, the famous hand tool manufacturer...

Thank you brummy-lad, I couldn't find anything myself. I had to smile at the first attachment. Stable? saddle room? conservatory? tennis lawn? Needless to say, none of those things were there in 1959. In fact, it was pretty run down then. I still remember an unused tiled bathroom with a rusty...

I wrote this 6 years ago but have since discovered that this house was once known as Mansfield House. When I lived there in 1959 it had been split into two. I lived with a Family in 28A and presumably the timber merchant was 28B Birchfield Road. I made an image from memory of what it sort of...

Thanks John, I had a feeling you might come up with a resolution. It is an EOJ reg. Incidently, the Family story is that Pop (Father-in-Law) camped overnight outside this car dealership in Potters Hill Aston in order to be first to buy a car from the vehicles they were selling off cheap the next...

Hi John, this is another photo (slightly blurred) of the same scene and they were taken around 1958-59. Looks like a late 50s Hillman coming the other way.

My future Mother-in-Law and Brothers-in-Law stopped on the side of the road for a picnic (as one did back in the day). Did my Father-in-Law coach build it himself or was it an actual model? Did Landrover models have "suicide" doors?

I'm sure this photo is on the Forum somewhere. Credited to Bob Greathead History Collection, it shows Gower St School teachers in 1955. Most of these were still there in 1961 when I left. Standing left to right: Mr Cross (science), Mr Edwards, Mr Williams (my 2B teacher), Mr Phillips, Mr Dean...