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I am surprised that there is not more posts about this important part of the history of Bimingham considering that at any one time 20,000 plus people worked there and probably 100,000 depended on it for business so it affected a lot of people in and around the city. I worked there for three...

Holloway Head ended at Granville street and became Bath row. The school did go up Bath row that far, the large house next to the school was used by the girls for learning household skills, if you walked up Chequers Walk I seem to remember halfway up an entrance into the school but was never...

Spot on with this info Andy and Lego, I started there in 1949 and left in 1956. It wasn,t only beanbags that came off that rooftop playground if we had any snow they threw as much as they could down on the boys (the girls used the roof and the boys were on the bottom playground) when we were in...

Thankyou Pedro, some old Birmingham charitable names lending a hand ,Cadbury,Tangye, Barrows.

There was a 'br' (as it was known as) in Kings Norton factory centre up till the 1970's and well used.

What was it pre 2nd world war, was it anything to do with orphanages or older orphans. My father spoke of it but would never go into detail and he was bought up in orphanages. Thankyou for any info.

I remember that hall it was part of my growing up in late 50's. It was used for private functions and it was a youth club on thursday nights. Some saturday nights a teenage dance was held there and one of the groups that played there was the unknown Rockinberries, they were very young lads back...

I first used the costermonger late 60,s friend of mine worked as barman (eric). It hadn,t been open long so it was quite posh very quiet.

Thankyou for the prompt reply Lyn but I think our wires are crossed somewhere, the housethat my mother and I couldn,t remember wasn,t our house but the house on the corner of holliday st. and bridge st. that the thread was about. Cheers.

I Newbie here, I have read this thread from beginning to the last post in march with great interest because I was born in holliday street and lived there until I was 12. My mother was also born in the street in 1920, she is still with us at 100 years old but she can,t remember anything about the...