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1955. I appeared in a show at the Aston Hipp. It was put on my my auntie, who was Madge Jenks. Madge ran a dancing and musical school on Gravelly Hill, and we performed our show there every year. This was the Walk-Down ( or as we called it, The Who Was Best....) Finale. That's Madge at the mic.

We had one for a short while, and it was used on the 96 &97 route, then it went to Oldbury I believe.

The man that ran the Electrical and TV and Radio shop, by The Gate, was called: GRAHAM MAYNARD. Does that ring any bells...?

Quite a lot of the early riders were from the military. I believe that "Tiger Hart" was from that background too.

Thank you, really interesting look back. Gerry.

Yes, I do, a stalwart at Perry Barr.

Of course these were the days before we were all overstuffed with entertainment, via TV, Internet, Mobile Phones, I-pads, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc, etc. The days when we had a half-day on a Wednesday, and would get off home, and go out and play football, I mean OUTSIDE, in the fresh...

Hi, as a newby I hope someone may be able to point me in the right direction. I have asked this question before, and had no response, so......Does anyone in the Handsworth area recall a Football Club, called "HANDSWORTH WEDNESDAY"? My father played for them pre-WW2. I am just wondering who would...

I love the wording "Crowds to be limited". See this photograph from Perry Barr in 1950!

*I too remember those riders. Of the newer riders, that is, of the 1970's George Major was a friend of mine.

*Thank you. I look forward to seeing it. Years ago, I wrote a verse about the onion Fair, and if I knew how to upload it (it's an mps) then I would post it here. Once again, thank you. Gerry

Hi, and thank you. This looks so much like the shop I remember. I am still looking to see if I can find anything else that will give me a memory jog about the old shop. But, I think this was it. Thank you. Gerry

I am thinking that perhaps Graham bought it from Civic, maybe....I am still trying to think of Graham's surname, and then it may help.... Thanks.

OK here we go. As a Great Barr lad, I remember the shop names as they were, before the Number 51 was ever there.... The buses back then were all Midland RED, the Great Barr to Birmingham bus was the 119. The Walsall via Great Barr was the 118. The bus terminus was right outside "Peace's" The...

Hi matey, no I don't think so. The shop was much smaller. I really can't think what the name was over the door...... I will have a think. Thanks anyway. Gerry.

When I was sixteen, I used to work in a TV shop in Saltley, just down from the traffic lights at the Gate. It was run by a man called Graham. In the window he had a camera, AND a mic and we would sit in the workshop upstairs, and listen to the comments from the people looking in the window at...

I think it may have been "SCOTTS EMULSION" a Children's medicine, well known in the forties and fifties.

We brought it back AGAIN in 2005, after a great effort.

Here's a couple more. Alan Hunt seated on machine, with Tamworth,s Ivor Davies standing. Both rode for The Brummies for several seasons. Alan was killed riding in South Africa. Ivor, I last spoke with in 1984.

Thanks Carolina. Way back in the early 2000's a group of friends and myself, worked our socks off, with meetings, and planning discussions with Birmingham City Council, to get Speedway back at Perry Barr. Suffice to say, we did it. But lost out then, to people that forgot us. They forgot what...