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Hi Folks. I hear that all or picture efforts over the years have been hacked into, by some faceless idiot. Anyway the good news is all the coloured slides I put over the years are still my hands and this summer after purchasing Photoshop software I have started to refurbish a lot of the damage...

Hi Lindy. I should have known that I was a L/cpl in the Royal Engineers at Southampton 17 Port Regt RE. Many thanks for all your help Ray

Hi . Thanks for that information unfortunately this guy lived a very strange life, marrying a girl from Suffolk taking her back to ASTON and some how loosing her a marrying somebody else whilst still married he must have had a bike. Can I ask where did the information come from about South...

Hi Bernard. Many thanks for your help, I will write to them see If they might help. Ray

Can anybody Help a relative of my wife was a Major Albert Chiles (Major is his name not rank. He enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in1891 and discharged in1903 He was then called up for short service 1917 to 1918 he was posted to a Birmingham barracks of the R E I. W. & D. Can...

Hi ragga. I've had a go seeing if I could make out the street name it appears to be 5 digits possilby A first then the word passage. Do'es that help. Ray

Hi Lyn. The onlt reference I can find for Wheeler Street & Great Hampton Row these lines was opened on the 25th Oct. 1886 and were operated by steam trams,leases ran out 1906 and services stopped. On the 30th June 1911 Birmingham Corparation took te then disused since the withdrawal of steam...

Hi Lyn Great Hampton Row had only access to Miller Street Depot there was no tram route down there I think it might be difficult to find any but I keep looking. Ray

Hi Folks I think you find this picture was taken at Gosta Green that building to right is the old Delicia Cimema. Ray

Hi Folks has anybody got a picture of Smiths Brewery on the Lichfield Rd. my great aunt Nell lived in the hose to right of the brewery maiden name was Jukes. Well into the 50's she still had the old gas mantels with the little white globes it really was a dim home, when her husband she went...

Hi Folks Looking through my dad's old photo's I came across these two. They were taken on May 5th 1935 at the Lichfield Road of Sandy Lane Aston near the junction with Vine Street. Do'es body know anybody in the photo's ? No 6 Sandy Lane was the Cross Family, No 8 was the Flynn's and 31...

The Mayfair Cinema was opened in 1931 and closed in 1963 and demolished down the right side of the cinema was Mayfair passage leading to Plumstead road and the otherside of the passage was the Old Isolation Hospital it's a housing estate to-day. To left hand side was a sweet shop & a car...

Yes I didn't post it before didn't think anybody would be interested. Regards Ray

It was bombed in 1941 near open-ed again but wasn't pulled down till 1987. Regards Ray

The Prince Of Wales Theatre Broad Street was bombed in 1941 and never re-opened it was pull down in 1987. Theres a very good website which you might find interesting www.Arthurlloyd.co.uk

more pictures of I presume the same wedding & Tower block and other very of Lozells Rd with the church further down road. Regards Ray

If you look at the map the picture was taken nearly the "L" in road and numbering start at number 27 Rocky Lane. what Dav said would be about write Lost Map replaced Regards Ray Hi Ray That`s a fantastic picture, I never was equated with this road my Grandfather and Grandmother lived in...

Hi Lyn Have no idea who was getting married a random picture

Stretton Road in the 1960's Lost photo replaced by what I am sure is the same as original Ray

a bit late pictures of St Pauls Lozells Rd and an unknown wedding. pictures taken 1960 Ray