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Thanks Lyn. The picture you have posted IS the right end, as the Main Road where I used to get off the bus is in view. You can see how the shops sit UP ON BANK, that is raised from street level; and that is where my Grandad's wooden house stood, but a little further down Glenavon Road. Thanks so...

Hi Lyn. Just to explain. Grandad and Nan were Romany Gypsy stock, and had lived in Vardo caravan at Chadwick End; they had to leave, and thats when Grandad actually made ( built with his own hands) a little wooden house. think of a PRE-FAB but made out of wood and roofing felt. ( I know, I...

Hi. As a very young lad, I would get off the number 50 bus from city, at Glenavon Road, Kings Heath. My Grandad had built a wooden house on the grass bank on the right hand side as you walked from the main road. I desperately want to see IF any pictures of Glenavon Road back then exsist? Many...

I recall the MUSIC BOX at the Six Ways end of High Street,m where I used to buy all my 78" records. I loved the place. Anyone remember it?

My how it has changed. Thanks for posting.

I have narrated the Chaplin documentary, which I understand is out in September, in New York & then Paris, followed by the UK.

THREE SPIRES MOTORS ! It came back to me.

Wow! I am so pleased to hear that. Alf, as mentioned by me ages ago on here, was my Dad's friend, and he looked after Dad's car. I loved going to Alfs garage. His son in law ran a big car showroom in Lichfield. Thanks for posting this.

We all did things like that mate.

Hi Dave, The Richards in RICHARDS of ASTON was actually owned by FARR & SMITH, a company headed up by Mr. Farr, they bought the company from the Richards family The Farr's then emigrated to Canada, the son was Martin. I did have a message from his sister way back some years ago, but when I...

Thanks for this, brilliant! My Dad and Alf were really good mates, as I said before my Dad was manager at RICHARDS of ASTON who were Pork Butchers on the corner of Bracebridge Street and High Street Aston. Alf, was a big man, and always reminded me of John Wayne. Fond memories came flooding...

Yes, he did. After they were moved on from Chadwick End, he built a wooden building, all by himself, with a tin roof, and polished lino flooring. It stood on a bank of grass in Glenavon Road, Kings Heath, and I would visit Nan & him there, traveling across Birmingham on the 50 bus. I remember it...

Trivia. My Grandad Jack Hill, moved around the Midlands a lot with his vardo. I remember as a five or six year old, visiting my Nan & Grandad in a field way out at Chadwick End. We had milk from the churn, and eggs from his chickens. it was a in a meadow surrounded by wild flowers. Grandad, like...

Interesting read. I know that Romanies never wanted to be classed with Travelers. Romany people, are people who do an honest days work usually grafting. Thank you for bringing the Black Patch back to the fore again.

Come to think of it, Alf's wife had a Hairdressers on one side of the alley he had his garage in. Thanks. Must have been further up Park Lane..

Unsure...was ALF Lloyds Garage down the entry next to the chip shop? Or was it down another entry further along?

A wonderful story, with a very sad ending. As you may have read I appeared there with my troupe back in the fifties, when the last knockings of Variety Theatre could be heard. The same fate took the Derby Hipp, and a lot of others, Amazing talent worked at these lovely theatres....never to come...

Just had a wander through these, excellent! Thank you.

Well there you go, we learn something every day. Cheers!

Trivia, I believe that ALBION were the first to produce the underfloor engine, and remember their advert for this innovative design. Thanks guys.