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If you would like o go over to my racing page on facebook. GERRY TAYLOR SPECIAL SALOON RACING 1960's & 1970's. Then we have specialists on board, they can answer anything about Ralph and his company. If you do wish to join, then mention me and the history site, and I will let you in...

I would have loved to have worked there, as even without any film stars, just to to say..."I work for Warner Brothers", would have been a bit of glamour to an otherwise pretty dull life. I worked for Barrows Stores in Corporation Street... ha-ha. Much later, as an adult, I went on to work in the...

I know, I was thinking a PRE- run for older cars, before the GP. Maybe.....

Not the Parade we were in matey, that was in 1972. This picture looks like another event. Perhaps something to do with the Birmingham Grand Prix event. Just look at the crowd!

When we were filming a TV series in Wales, we had Mokes, fitted with a canvass striped roof cover. They were chosen because they were thought to look Different.

Brilliant photograph, just as I remember the way we were. Even though people had very little, they had a PRIDE in what they had. And they say we have progressed.....REALLY?

Might have been rough back then, but they surely were community times....unlike 2019!

Happy Days matey.

Hi mate, yes it has changed, but then they tell me that this is progress, and that I am a dinosaur..... well maybe that's so, but I still say Birmingham was a great place back in the fifties (yes, I am old, 79 years old) but to be able to remember when a bus would stop and pick you up mid-stop...

and.......No one takes pride in their part of the road; unlike the days when ladies would sweep the gutter outside their house, and polish the doorsteps with Mansion or Cardinal. My how my city has gone down.

Ah,Got it. thanks.

The roof line is the same, so I can see where it stood. Great winter day scene.

Thanks.

Is That The Villa Cross Picture House?

What lovely photograph of an area that was a delight to be part of.........

I see the ghost (?) but where's the boot in the middle of the road?

At a guess 1930's. Looking at the clothes and the car.

Happy Days indeed.

I just found an even earlier picture of a wartime spud seller!

I used to work at BARROWS Stores, and before running for my bus outside the Odeon ( I used to detour especially) I would get my little bag of tiny potatoes and, as you said, loads of salt. No butter, or fancy fillings in those days eh! The funny thing is, ironic really, years later, I also used...