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Very sad :confused:

I remember the Post Office being there, I had a Saturday job in that area of Soho Road in the mid 60s.

I went to a former school friend's 21st birthday party in the Red Lion. Is the pub still open?

I wonder if the original photo posted would be on the corner of Thornhill Road just across from Handsworth Park?

Ah yes, sorry! It was the mention of James Watt's daughter Ann living there on both photos that confused me.

More on the Lodge here.... A large 5-bay Georgian house stood between what is now Waverhill Road and Holliday Road in extensive grounds. Thornhill House was bought by Matthew Boulton in 1793 and subsequently let to James Watt Junior who had it refurbished. 1818 Boulton's daughter Ann moved in...

I was just wondering that! There was a Police station in the Handsworth one wasn't there, that's what I associate it with!

Happy Birthday!

Thanks again! Nice to have all those details, I will pass them on to my sister and nephew.

Thanks so much, that's brilliant! Yes, they were my Aunties, my Dad was the last in the family, born 1925. My grandma's name was Esther, both of my grandparents died before I was two so I don't really remember them.

No, that wouldn't be him, Dad's family were definitely Aston people!

Thank you! It could be him, although I think he did work in 'engineering' at some point it would have been fairly basic. I know he did any kind of work he could find during the depression era in the 30s.

I don't have all his details offhand, his name was Charles Spencer and his home address was in the Aston area of Birmingham. I guess he would have been born in the 1890s. Correct that, more like 1880s or late 1870s I believe.

My grandad was in the Royal Flying Corps but, although he was a Brummie, he was based at Hendon. He wasn't a flyer though, I think he was doing something in the engineering line as that was his trade. My nephew has his RFC cane which has a metal knob with the insignia on the top end.

Was sorry to read a couple of days ago that he had died, my sister had a crush on him back in the day, I had to pass the news on to her, she lives in Germany and hadn't heard the news then. My nephews name is Richard which could have been influenced by her liking him! Photo of him in Hamlet at...

Just read on April's Bulls Head Bob blog that guitarist John Caswell has recently died. RIP https://bullsheadbob.blogspot.com/?m=1

That's very interesting! The building is still there but I didn't know it had been a cinema. There was a snooker hall in there more recently (well, could have been a good few years now!) and the entrance was a door in Pinfold Street, I guess that room must have been part of the cinema.

Quite an impressive attempt for 1910! I wonder how the culprits were identified.

Lovely flowers!