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Hi All, yes Terry Andrews was a member of my staff on the Gardening Dept in those days, unfortunately he had a "problem" and left suddenly, I think his dad used to work over on the mens tailoring at one time. The electical department, white goods and small appliances were alongside the hardware...

Hi Frankf, Here are some pics' of the Big Top Site Basement in the Hardware and Gardening Dept where I was the Gardening Buyer and the basement Supervisor. In the background of pic' 1 & 3 you can just see the subway entrance leading to the Restaurant and the old building across the the other...

when I worked at the Sheldon I was asked to work at the Kingston the last couple of weeks before it was due to change to bingo because the staff were all leaving. Jack Attwood was the Chief Projectionist and Johnny Rowley was one of the doormen, he used to sell car parking space to the football...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Trebor and Thanks for the Kellys mikejee, what a blast from the past that was, Allens at 410 Alum Rock Rd were the people who Mom sold the shop too opposite Southalls, during the sale of the premises Mom had to go and see her solicitor about...

Hi All, next to the Shell garage on the corner of Anthony Road, as I remember it, was a travel shop a news agents a greengrocer (Browns?) Lashfords the butcher, can't remember what was on the corner was it the Co-op or was that further along ? Regards Chris B

Brilliant Icarus, I remember all that you have mentioned, of course opposite the Morris Commercial was the old Grand Cinema, a stadium type with no balcony as such, Frank Cozens was the Manager, and Mom new the head usherette so I had to behave when I went to the Saturday Matinee Regards Chris B

Hi All, I used to got to George Gray the barbers shop opposite Southhalls (between Farndon Rd & Foxton Rd I think) Mom had a shop opposite Southalls gate (Ludlow Rd end) next to Ashtons lending library and toy shop on the corner of Farndon Rd I think it was called Betty, she sold wool...

I used to go to the small school in Castle Bromwich and I always thought the avenue of conker trees was the original drive to Bradford Hall from the main road ? My wife who lived in Pype Hayes always new the large mound as "The Giants Pimple" Regards Chris B

Hi All, I used to live in Cooks Lane Marston Green in a bungalow next door To Alcotts Farm, the Midland Red bus used to run down the lane on its way to Bacons End. To me the bus used to fill the lane and all the hedgerow waved about as it motored past as I stood at the gate looking through the...

Hi All, I live in Warmington Road, the road that the Sheldon is on the corner of, when I moved here some 40 years ago it was a nice local family friendly pub as were most of them in those days. Where the new houses now stand was the crown green bowling green, and in the summer you could hear the...

Re: Clifton Cinema, Great Barr saved Yes oldmohawk in answer to your question the Clifton & The Beacon were both owned by the same company whose head at one time was Sir Sydney Clift. I can remember a Manager at the Clifton possibly the last one as a Cinema named Ernie Hedge, formally of the...

The Solihull Cinema was originally called "YE ARDEN CINEMA" when it was first built. I will look up some more information I have got and post it in the near future. The link below is to an article I wrote about the Sheldon Cinema together with a few pics from the time that I worked there for 13...

I worked at the Birmingham Co-operative Society at the time of decimalisation, and I was one of the people chosen to re-educate the sales assistants in the department store in Birmingham city centre, it was easy, but a lot of people were just not confident with it, like some of the other...

I don't think that this was the case, as the one by the Sheldon was a house / bungalow with the front converted into the shop and it was run by 2 middle aged ladies as I remember. Regards Chris B

if you hold your cursor over the thumbnail and right click, then select open link from the drop down, then when the plus sign appears left click and the writing will big and bold enough to read clearly Regards Chris B P.S there was also a BON BON sweet shop on the Coventry Road next door to the...

Hi there should be a book in the library entitled THE CO-OP IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE BLACK COUNTRY by Ned Williams which has a lot of photo's and testimonials from former employees, very interesting book. I worked at High Street from 1965 untill 1979 in the basement of the Big Top Site Regards Chris B

Dad was always a biker and cyclist, when he was young he had an old Velocette, and he took the baffles out of the silencer to make it sound more sporty. After watching a film at the Beaufort he came out and started up whereupn a policeman jumped out of the shadows and nicked him for excessive...

sorry to hear about your Mom catsclaw, we don't go into Birmingham city centre now unless we have to, it certainly isn't what it was, we tend to shop in Solihull or have a ride out to Redditch and go to the Kingfisher Centre. All the best Chris B

Hi All some photos of the classes at Sladefield Sec' Mod' school number 1 taken in 1956 was class 1/1 teacher was Mr Liversidge number 2 taken in 1957 was class 2/1 no teacher in photo but it was Mr Westacott number 3 taken in 1958 was class 3/1 teacher was Mr Court

Hi Di, that was a lovely little painting, you have captured the area exactly Regards Chris B