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Condolences on your Dad Julie, he lived a good long life, Hawleys were an exceptional bakery, Regards Paul

Hi Rob yes it was a little like that , but a memory some 60 years later, I have a mind set that it was shorter , more chrome, and smaller screen, though after so many years could be completely wrong, of course thanks for posting!!

Yes Richard, I did go to the El Sombrero, only occasionally, as it was expensive for me, loved the atmosphere though!!

Hi Richard, I never went to the cinema, but the little cafe upstairs, with the really quirky Juke Box. that had a sort of TV in it!!

It was a small place Dave, not far up from Bristol Road motors , on the same side, and not far away from the Sombrero cafe!!

lovely looking Pub, getting quite rare now !!

I do believe it was Dave, it had a coffee bar, with a juke box which had a sort of television in it!!

I remember a cinema like that with foreign films in the horse fair not far from the Bristol Road !

Like Pete in the winter would snuggle on the hard wooden benches in the waiting rooms, with a fairly nice fire burning , it was cosy, and had a smell all of its own, !!

I wonder what years, the original building was a Court House ???

yep, back in the fifty's ,was all I could afford to get a bus and platform ticket, with mothers, jam sandwiches and a bottle of water, would spend hours wandering, the platforms of New Street and Snow Hill.

some brilliant shots and so reminiscent of those times, "sigh"

Do you know I never knew this, though, I was only 11, it was't till about 13 or 14 I came to appreciate "Buddy", he was dead by then!!

I went to the Catholic School, for a short while, near the church in the fifty's, badly bullied, so Mom sent me to Our lady of St Rose Weoley Castle, about 1957ish!

so lucky Pete, wish I did !!

Its just, impossible to explain in words the mystic of the smell of steam and smoke, and the memories it evokes!!

How very sad, for a place that brought laughter and happy memories to 1000's!!

Royal Welsh Regiment??

#349, looks like a Vickers .303, heavy, but may be wrong, my dear Uncle Horace Manton, was a dispatch rider for the Home guard, Handsworth Div, and is in one of the "Birmingham" magazine articles!!

Yes Eric that happened a lot! There was a milk machine outside Aldershot Station !!