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This flats were called the ‘Dutch Flats’ as the resemble windmills in their design

Attached, some promotional advertising re Churchill’s source Graces Guide, date range 1940 to 1957.

I remember Churchill’s a large imposing building it was on the Coventry Road adjacent Forest Road and opposite the tennis courts in Oakland’s rec, there used to be a big green cast iron gents toilets in a recessed area with a drinking fountain, and a council nursery on the corner of Holder Rd...

Picture reposted as in June of 2023 , the Lord Street / Windsor Street site as an operational gas site will be no more . The site will be developed as a potential car park to support the BCC CAZ , or commercial units . It will be an end of an era for this site, from coal (town gas ) production...

Hello, The forum thread is titled WW1 1914 to 1918 , and the attached link was a reference WW1 and the local industries of Birmingham contribution to that conflict to allow all following the thread to review the link .

A quiz , I posted earlier on Quiz thread, as this thread was under review...

I have posted this before, but it’s worth reading the article

Gas Holder painting Nechells WW1

I found this link , I posted on Hay Mills thread today, posted it again here as it is WW1 related re munition and essential war industry https://www.whgroup.org/our-story/2020/03/war-and-the-home-front-at-hay-mills/

The house were your mates lived were built on land were house were bombed during WW2 air raids on the BSA ( I was told by locals) , they were numbered 860 a and 858 b screenshot attached shows them now, I have somewhere (and it is nagging me now) pictures of Rootes , Holy Family church and...

On the Hay Mills theme, found this site , it well worth looking at re Hay Mills in WW1 some lovely pictures https://www.whgroup.org/our-story/2020/03/war-and-the-home-front-at-hay-mills/

The old army navy stores was on the corner of Shipway Road and Coventry Road they had stalls set out on the footpath , you could buy old gas masks, army coats, ammo belts, they even had the mirror type periscope sights for tanks. The house you visited was a police house and next to it was our GP...

We use to play football and cricket in Redhill School during the summer holidays , had climb over the fence and keep an eye out for the caretaker.

A report on the demolition of the Lurgi chimney at Coleshill In the mid 80’s , prior to the introduction of natural gas (North Sea) Coleshill Lurgi produced ‘town gas’ fo the majority of the West Midlands .

Hay Mills Bridge ,

Yes , Podgery you are correct , the layout was Bedders fish and chip shop, then the shop that Bowen’s later took over as a booking office for Bowen’s coaches (as the took Eatonways over when the went bust) , the the car showroom petrol station, with Eatonways offices up stairs , you then had the...

As I crossed HeyBarnes Road the Shops were Bedders chip shop, Eatonways Coaches, Heybarnes rec , the bridge over the Cole, Plough and Harrow, and outdoor , Butchers (Joe ??) a drapery shop, the access path to the house down the gulley, Toni’s the Italian Barber, Harris dry cleaners, Friut and...

The Bakery was there when I moved to Coventry Road, that was 1966

The LongShoot has not changed that much since then!!!!

Just a tip during this cold snap If you have wooden or any type of radiator cover you may want to consider temporarily removing them, they are can absorb a high volume of heat from the rads make your systems inefficient.