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Hello, Happy Christmas to you and yours. I agree with you about the sad demise of our manufacturing and engineering industries, but the root cause, and contributory factors would be a new thread and attract numerous opinions .

It would have 1964 ish when I would have seen the BSA site and understood what it was and produced , my next door neighbour used to tell me the contribution the factory made to the war effort. I cannot used some of the colourful terms he used re WW2 and the bombing of Birmingham as the...

that would be a classic today

2 views of the Small Heath Factory , clearly different date as layout has changed . Anyone have information on the changes.

Davenports beer (mild) advert , like the way the ad says send a postcard (remember them?) or ask our van men very much a memory of those happier times.

Christmas tipple 1955 prices

https://www.noradsanta.org/en/assets/map/embed.html

The attached is the route of a Royal Procession in Birmingham 1919, my initial research leads me to believe it was King Georage V and Queen Mary opening of the Children's Hospital . Am I correct??

BSA taxi bikes 1921, I never heard of these machines before

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/remembering-summers-birmingham-sea-weston-22754714

The attached I’d Marshall and Snelgrove of New St, I assume it is circa 1940’s based on Santa and the barrage ballon .

A wrestling card for Digbeth Civic Hall, with Kendo Nagasaki on the bill.

A kids day out to Weston Super Mare , note the prices includes entertainment on the train . Starting at Snow Hill, and local stations imagine the excited children waiting for the train. Date not known.

Queen's Tower Duddeston 1954, still under construction

Another Ansells pub, the Raven my wife’s Mom and Dad would dance in the big room there on a Saturday night.

Thank you for the information, the Ansells pubs I used to frequent in my youth was the Plough and Harrow , Hay Mills and the Swan Yardley.

Found this advertisement for Ansells, I cannot recall seeing it before .

Lewis’s Toy Fair, clockwork train 15/6d apologies is a poor quality image

I am trying to remember, was Santa on the 4 th or top floor, I can remember the lift with the attendant and the mechanical floor selector , the double set of trellis type metal gates Uncle Holly , gave me and other children a badge with him on it and Lewis’s name , well I am also most sure ...

Davenports Brewery and offices Bath Row date unknown , an impressive building