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That looks like the council depot, It was there in the early 1950,s when I lived in Holliday St. The street cleaners were based there with their horse and carts as well as other departments. I used go and watch the men washing the horses when they were finished for the day. I remember Roy Rogers...

You would have been O.K. it was only around the corner to the old accident hospital

Communication Row started at Bath Row and ended at the junction of Holliday St. and William St. It had a 90 degree bend in it and no. 55 was the first house around that bend opposite the old peck which was on Holliday St. My friend lived next to the playground. The Tysalls and Bickerstaffs...

Eamon Andrews was on the original Crackerjack about the same era as Muffin the Mule. Mick and Montmarency, one of them was Charlie Drake.

My old school St. Thomas,s and I think Holloway Head ended at Granville St. and Bath Row began at Granville St.

Theres been some discussion on local H & Worcs. radio about body found in 1943 by some young lads in Hagley Woods, it was stuffed into a hollow wich elm tree. It has never been identified nor killer found, Various theories including german spy, prostitute amongst others. It would be interesting...

Thomas, go to the factory and offices page, there are a few posts about "the austin" as it was always called.

These pictures certainly bought some memories back, I lived in holliday street from 1944 to 1956.

I think it started to snow on boxing day 1963 and was still on the ground at easter. It ruined my first car an old 1939 wolsey, one morning it would not start, when I looked under the bonnet the core plugs were 2 inches from the block on the end of icicles. Most of the building trade was laid...

Does anyone remember the greengrocers on the corner of stoke st. and william st. it was called donkey georges if I remember right.

We moved from Ladywood to Kings Norton in 1956, used tokens for travelling back to St Thomas,s school for about a month until I got fixed up at Brandwood End school. I don,t think you had to be poor to get them every child who used a bus for school qualified for the tokens.

Holliday street ladywood, then posh kings norton (we thought in those days)

I was born in that area and lived there until I was 12. If you go to pubs of the past thread page 86 post 1705 there is a photo of the pub and shop which was at the bottom of the entry to your grans yard.

If that is Bath Row bridge then the line and canal run parallel to Communication Row and Holiday Street right down to the old goods yard at junction of suffolk st. and Holiday St. There was 3 train lines on different levels back in the 1950,s but I think the high level wasn,t used then. The...

Reading these posts makes me feel that I must be one of the oldest remaining pupils from Brandwood. I started there in 1955 just after the school opened and left aged 15 in 1959. I don,t recognise any of the teachers mentioned. The headmaster was mr Locker who lived quite local to the school and...

Often saw queues outside the West end in the 1950,s. It was on the corner of Holliday st. and Suffolk st. Great dance there on a Saturday lunchtime.

I went to st thomas,s school from 1949 until 1956. It was infant, junior and senior, it was on the corner of Bath Row and Granville St. opposite corner to the church, it moved down Cregoe St. and was called Lee Bank School or a similar name. My parents were due to get married at the church...

In the 1940s/50s I lived in Holliday street and the bridge that carries the canal between gas street and the mailbox was always known as 'under the gullet'by the locals, my sisters and I still use that expression when talking about that area

Thanks Rob that will keep me occupied for while.