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just a few more pics to bring back some memories

Hi All, that card was sent to me by Gwen Green the Kiosk / Ice cream lady at the Sheldon Cinema as a reminder of the time when I used to help her fill up her tray for the final push around the stalls, and as she went to walk off she stopped suddenly and said "Chris quick !!!! the elastic in my...

the Palladium when business was good !!!

Hi All hopefully a better picture of the Beaufort Foyer and Paydesk

the list of names I posted were people who I worked with from 1966 to February 1979 which is when I left to Manage the Warwick Cinema in Acocks Green Regards Chris B

Hi All, A little bit of info on the BEAUFORT CINEMA The Beaufort Cinema one the architectural gems now long gone it was a known as a "Jacobethan Mansion as the design was a mixture of both Jacobean and Tudor design, the balcony lounge stained glass windows depicted all the Kings & Queens of...

Hi Changinman1, the basement subway as I should have called it was accessed from the entrance to the wines and spirits steps on High street or the small lift from the ground floor. At the bottom of these steps you could access the Oak Restaurant or the sales passage that led on down to Moor...

Hi FrankF, hopefully here are some pictures of the basement in the Big Top site just before I left in 1979. If you click on the pics there is description with them. Regards Chris B

Hi Michael, glad you enjoyed the article, yes you are quite right we did have the Kiosk ladies retirement do showing Smallest Show On Earth, in one of the pics in the article I think you will find it might be you coming out of the gents toilet in the background. Hope you are keeping well. Kind...

I used to live in Thomas Street and I too remember Dr Wand & Dr Macgregor, as a child I had regular bouts of tonsillitis and remember sitting in the waiting room with all the coloured light bulbs which used to flash when it was your turn, everyone used to speak very highly of these Doctors and...

Shame the local pubs are shutting because of the loss of some of the thirties architecture, but from a personal point of view as we have what was the Sheldon on the corner of my road it would be no loss because of some of the dross that get it there and cause mayhem when they are loosed out...

A.J. Gupwells were a firm of shopfitters with premises in Bradford St Birmingham

it still is on the same site, it was originally in the old CWS factory premises, then it was rebuilt and modernised by Mervyn Manley and thereon after the likes of Comet and Rumbelows etc got on the band wagon and it never made a profit and was a millstone around Mervyns neck as he was by then...

The ODEON WARLEY was at the juction with the Hagley and Wolverhampton Road, this was Oscar Deutsch' personal Odeon as he only lived a short distance away in Augustus Road Edgbaston, and when he had guests that fancied to see the film show Oscar would phone and ask the staff and manager to stay...

Hi Frank, the main canteen for you to be able to get a full meal was on the third floor on the other side of the road, the small snack bar canteen serving sandwiches snacks and drinks for the Big Top staff was in the basement entrance lobby across from the staff toilets and public lift at the...

According to the book 150 years of co operative by Ned Williams the High Street Store closed in 1984. The Rainbow suite could be hired by anyone wanting to put on a function Regards Chris B

Hi Jennyann, I suppose it must have seemed dark, possibly they wouldn't have had it fully illuminated like when it was used as a sales area, I am looking for the exact date of closure, but I think it would have been around 1983, I had left in 1979 and although I had kept in touch with a lot of...

Hi Frankf, Castle St Passage ran from the basement by the Wines & Spirits and exited into the street opposite Moor Street Station roughly, and there was a door in the wall half way along that led to Castle St goods deck, the rest of the first floor in the Big Top Site was carpets and floor...

Hi Frankf I can't put a face to Margeret Wallace, (one of my failings names), the refit at a guess was in the early to mid 70s. I well remember Bill Dove, I had many run ins with him, I found him to be very ignorant and heavy handed, fortunately I didn't work for him directly otherwise it would...