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One of my mother's cousins and his wife emigrated to the Ottowa area of Canada in the 50s I think it was, he did very well, had his own business and a private plane. Some of my father's family emigrated to New Zealand in the first half of the 1900s. One of Dad's Uncles later came back to...

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Oh dear, glad no one was badly injured. Where was Queens Hospital? I don't think I've heard the name before.

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A nice story on BBC Birmingham today :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpw60pyzeo

I have an amusing story about the AA from years ago. As a family we were on the way to my Nan's in South Worcestershire via a stretch of the motorway. There was something sounding funny with the motor of Dad's Mini so he pulled off at one of the junctions to have a look inside the bonnet, just...

Great old street clock! I wonder if anyone can identify what the building originally behind was?

Just noticed while looking for a road in the Witton area on Google maps that Ozzy Osborne's childhood home is now actually marked as such! I guess the people now living there are not going to be very thrilled if lots of visitors gather in the street during the concert period!!

I guess this is the church here....

Some pictures from the Light Festival on the BBC website today. .. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr5017znko

My cousin worked for James A Roberts at that time. I used the Lloyd's Bank in the lower part of the building so have been inside a number of times.

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Wow...a very nice piece of furniture! I'm sure one of our members will be able to help with some information.

Gosh yes, I remember some of those bands! Galliard, and Erskine T who was a DJ and also worked at the Elbow Room and Mothers. The Locomotive and the band Ten Years After who became quite well known and played at the Woodstock Festival! ...and of course Carl Wayne and the Vikings, some of whose...

Gosh....some memories of the Bull! The staircase going up to the room where the bands played in the mid 60s! Known then as the Hereford Lounge.

Me too! That was my bus route into Town, the number 16, must have passed the Pelican hundreds of times!

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That building was originally J Ashford & Son and is still there... https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4397225

I think the large S brackets were to strengthen the walls of buildings?

I suppose it's not so bad if you all chip in together! Edit....just realised that price IS per person:oops:.....or is it, I've confused myself completely now :worried::rolleyes: