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There's a brick built one with a concrete roof in the garden of 235 Cherry Orchard Road, Handsworth Wood. A former owner found it too difficult to demolish so used it as a garden shed. We had an Anderson in our garden in Winson Green. After the war it served many purposes including a hen...

I first thought it was the Uplands but dismissed that after studying the windows. I then ruled out my second choice, the Crown and Cushion because that hasn't got a chimney on the end. Then the architecture is completely wrong for the Boars Head and the Fox and Goose. Therefore I'll have to come...

One of my modern favourites is the Wesleyan Building at the you of Snowhill. It's a very unusual design anbd although it's been up some time now, shows no sign of ageing or deterioration. It's just a pity that views of it are now obscured by the more recent, now delayed, developments. Anyway...

Re: Boy Scout Suicide Sqad. I didn't know the queen had a sister named Anne...

I know the community in and around Soho Road chose to have theirs painted the Sikh colour orange but thought that was a one off. Now I know differently.

Re: City Centre Photo Album I've just been looking through my photos of Brum but guess most must have already been posted here before over the years. So, maybe you'd like to take a look at these: https://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/oisin01/Streets%20of%20Birmingham/ Not strictly buildings...

Have you tried copying and pasting the address in, Maggie? It worked with Firefox for me and I must say that's a very comprehensive and harrowing account of a terrible massacre. It's sad to think that we learned nothing from such things and similar atrocities continue to be committed in more...

Unfortunately Tom, I'm afraid the link doesn't work. Would you try again please? Edit: Sorry it does but only if copied and pasted into the address bar. It doesn't work by merely clicking.

Chris, So sorry to hear your sad news. Please accept our condolences. Paul & Gail

As a kid I remember the Nettlefolds trucks accessing the works though a road under the railway bridge just where the Railway Inn was on Wellington/Street Vittoria Street corner. With regard to Winterbourne House, there's more here: https://www.winterbourne.org.uk/ I haven't been but my...

My sister's husband served his time at B&M and worked there in the drawing office in the '60s till he left for a job with BCC Water Dept (later given away to Severn Trent). He once described how they tested pumps and marine engines in the nearby cut. There's quite a lot more about B&M over on...

I was brought up in Winson Green but never knew of its existence till my (underprivileged) kids went there in the early 80s. I can remember them talking about milking goats and making pottery and taking part in other activities. Apparently other kids got canoeing lessons on the cut but mine...

... and here's another one. The girl at the front holding the bottle is my wife, Gail, with her sister Angela and their brother, Tony to the next to them. Their Dad, Patrick Mulvey, worked there in the 50s-60s. Dunno what the department was, he only ever referred to it as the "Black Hole".

We didn't have one of those till we really got posh. It was a Godsend cos the water for the tin bath could be heated up in it as well. Until we got it the washing was boiled up in a cauldron in the wash house, which was heated by lighting a fire underneath. My mother had one of those sticks...

Although I felt I knew Peter really well through his posts to the forum I only met him once. My perception of him has already been summed up by other contributors to this thread - a very genuine and well informed gentleman. I too would like to send my condolences to Barbara and the rest of...

Seems ol' Arthur had a finger in many pies, besides spiritualism and fairies his interest in palaeontology led him to be suspect in the Piltdown Man hoax.

I too used to visit the museum coffee bar when it was off the main corridor, not far from the stairs leading to the Natural History collections. In my day it was frequented by beatniks but I must have got the VIP treatment cos my frothy stuff came in a glass cup and saucer. Of course they now...

I'm not sure but they should be able to tell you here: Register Office Holliday Wharf Holliday Street Birmingham B1 1TJ England United Kingdom Telephone: 0121 675 1000 Outside UK: (+) 44 121 675 1000 Email: [email protected]

Can anyone help me with the average pub price of a large (schooner?) medium sherry in about 1968 please? I think a pint would have been about 2/-, or 2/6d in a posh lounge but didn't drink much sherry meself. If anyone can help me out I'll gladly buy them one (or maybe even two) at whatever...

Rupert, Yes, I think you've got it. Isn't this what we're looking at?...