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Hi Gazzo. Some of us who still live in Billesley are trying to clean it up I run a group on Billesley Common called "The Valley Riverside Project" and over the last three years we have given hundreds of hours building bridges, clearing pathways, bushes, replacing fences and only last week...

Welcome to the Forum. We also used the old Birmingham Municipal Bank as it was then but for some reason my parents never used any of the shops there instead they used the ones further up Yardley Wood Rd where the Co-op was.I did find an old pic of the "Valley pub" but when the computer crashed...

Does anyone have any info or pics of the old car showroom in Poplar Rd Kings Heath? I was talking to the owners daughter who has lost all her pics and memorabellia due to a burglary and the fact that it has been vandalised and is now uninhabitable.

Hi Stag707. I used to smoke a pipe and usually sat in the bar with the other pipe smokers! There was a man called Jim who sat near to the door and always asked for a small amount of baccy to light his twist, he would then proceed to fill his pipe with your baccy and then slice one layer from the...

After my usual drink at the "Valley" pub I made my way to the Hot Dog wagon parked next to the 18 bus terminus run by a Spanish man called Tino and there I met two girls, one was called Sue and we met the next day and have met every day since! We married at Holy Cross Church where my parents...

Born at the Sorrento in1946,lived in Billesley for 21 years then Aston for 22 years then back to Billesley to my parents old house, still there!

Does anyone remember "Broadspeed" on the Stratford Rd in Sparkhill? They produced mini's that looked like minature Aston Martins with the fish tale, I believe they started with a mini van.Was it started by Ralph Broad? Is it still in business, I know that it left Birmingham several years ago...

Hi All. Just been today to photograph this cottage before it gets vandalised, it's been up for sale for several months and it appears that a lot of work will be required to restore it and there is no vehicle access, it's rumered to be 200 years old!

I was born in Billesley in 1946 and I remember going to the Welfare in Highfield Rd just behind Chinn Brook Rd Rec.for that Orange and also Cod liver oil. Funny thing is that now the same building is our local health centre and our Doctor has moved in! I still have a Cod liver oil capsule each...

Lived in Bevington Rd from 1968 until 1990

Thanks Robert. I knew the leonards family quite well as my father worked for Mr leonard when he bought Pinfold House, he was involved with the restoration of it and to developement of the garden and the extending of the garden by the canal. One day my dad and the workers at the garage were all...

Talking to a friend the other day I was supprised to hear that Pinfold House is now empty and vandals have broken in and started to distroy it, has it been bought by a developer?I thought it had Grade 2 listing:(:(

Bradford St where it crosses the Rea, there were toilets there.

My list started with a 14 year old morris minor, held together with filler! had 5 years use from it , bet the reg would be worth more: 575ND. I progressed then to a Hawleys breadvan converted into a "camper"this consisted of carpet on the floor and a heater from a Ford Capri bolted behind the...

When we lived in Aston in Bevington Rd, the coalhole was in the entry which was below the street level so the coalman had to go down a slope under the house and the hatch was halfway along the entry wall, great fun in the wet or snow! Went to get some coal this week for our log/coal burner, it's...

Hi All. Your search Suemalings is the right farm as the Mails article said it was of Tudor origin, it just seems strange that a farm and building can vanish of the face of the earth with no trace! Ladylinda where does the census say the cottages were/are and when? Thanks Pete

Have I found a subject that no-one knows about, no replys in two days!

In the Mail today 12th Dec there is story in the old suppliment dated 15th Dec 1977 about the demise of Field Gate Farmhouse and that it was to be demolished, brick by brick, did this happen and if so what happened to the bricks and was it rebuilt? Also where along Yardley Rd was it?

Playing marbles on the way to school, seeing the "City of Birmingham Punishment book"as our teacher used to do the dirty deed,The joy of making a working push bike from bits that were found,making "dens", the smell of steam trains and the start of some new music....I think it was called Rock &...

Is it on the corner of Vicarage Rd & Kings Rd Kings Heath?