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Thank you Oldbrit for reminding us how the statue was meant to be, I recall it being a dark colour. I can't understand why the council thought that gilding it enhances it. Bronze ages with that lovely patina that nothing but exposure to all the elements gives it. I can't imagine what the gilding...

I have just spent a couple of hours re reading this post, it is so heartening to see so much history uncovered by members of the forum. Thank you. I wish I had a few minutes with the hackers who took so many of our photo's, this thread in particular as Leslam spent a lot of time finding...

Hi mjraquets, the post is how Lawn Tennis evolved from Raquets. Some members of this Forum put on their sleuthing hats and traced how Major "Harry" Gem and Augorio Perera progressed from Raquets to Tennis as we know it today. You can read of the house where they played on its lawn, it is still...

The photo of our poor old city, the night after a raid, shows the street lights still hanging suspended on wires across the road, how on earth did they survive. My memory never ceases to suprise me, I would have taken a bet that C & A were always in Corporation Street !!!

The tram lines go up Witton Road, I remember the day they took the tracks up. I thought the trams also turned right round and went back into town up past Villa Park. Memory often proves to be wrong. It is a cracking photo Mike, Just as I remember it apart from the tram lines. The Aston was my...

In the far corner of my mind the box that is on the foot path held Grit? or Salt? If I passed one today I wouldn't think it strange so there must have been a few about.

I too am sorry to hear of Chris Upton's death, he was a great champion of Birmingham's history and in particular the Back to Back's when there was sceptisism of the project. R.I.P Chris

Hello Bronson. Weclome to the Forum. I guess you 'Saw the World' I'm sorry to hear of your illness. Take care.

There must be something missing in my life. I find myself re reading this Thread at least once a year!!

I went to Enids' in the late 40's early 50's when it was in Birchfield Road. Enid had pet names for some of the boys, one I fancied myself she called Bright Eyes. I went with my friend Barbara Jackson, she took her dancing seriously and like you Viv she entered competitions. We were teen agers...

Hello Paul, I have spent hours looking at the University catalogue, looking for your Aunt's slides. We found the first release of the slides a few years ago, so we are all delighted to know that there are so many more to see. I actually shouted when I read that the 'lost' slides have been found...

I'd forgotten about it, but she knew exactly what she was doing didn't she!! Her father was Charles Horace, not Charles Howard Nicklin.

I had forgotten that one!!

I have been championing Phyllis for a long time and I am delighted she is being researched by the Forum. I have just discovered that the rest of her slides, some 1,100 have been discovered in an old filing cabinet at the University. Link below. It seems that her slides are being digitised...

Oh the number 6 West Bromwich bus. I went to Hamstead school during the war years and my mother worked so I used to catch the number 6 up to Hamstead Hill, cut across the field to my aunt in Jayshaw Avenue, have a quick lunch then catch the bus back to school. A few years ago I went on a...

How lovely to see the University giving us all the chance to see more of Phyllis's photo's, I have been a fan from the moment I fell across the first ones. It is an archive that we know will be preserved.

Thank you Lyn for the film, I haven't seen it before, the children's faces are worth a mint. This is Hastings about 1950, I keep a copy of it in a frame and when I want to feel good I look at it, my dad in his suit, he did take his tie off though. I'm on the left in my cossie, my sister Jen...

There is a story that Judy was in Birmingham when Laurel and Hardy were playing the Aston Hippodrome, she went to see them and they called her on stage. Lucky audience. It was in the 50's, my Great Uncle who came over from the US on holiday was on the same ship as Laurel and Hardy.

That's where I fell in love Paul, those heady days long gorn - the old KD I mean XX

It is The Oak, Hockley Heath. hopefully photo attached, click on the thumbnail and you can see all the details i.e the chimney breast on the outside of the building, far right.