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That's where I got the things I'm wearin' and I still can't see them! :sorrow:

I must be really losing it cos I can see the Heinkel bubble car but I can't see the traffic cop or the Mary Quant girl. :blue:

...and please accept my condolences to you and your family. Paul.

Seems he's been at work there then and shoved the whole town over the border from Cumbria.

She's a little beauty! :love_heart:

Well I don't believe it can, especially a city that destroyed all the beautiful mosaics we had in our underpasses and the bull from the 60s development.

Okay, so I know what I wanted to know about the gates I'll move onto the sports ground. Does anyone know what's planned for it? Here is a photo of my sisters and me watching the Punch and Judy show at the annual sports day back in the 50s...

The County Ground was certainly a lot more aesthetic then as it remained right up to its very recent refurbishment. It now looks more like a factory estate than a cricket stadium. There has been a lot of, to me unjust, criticism of recent developments, such as the Bull Ring, but I've heard none...

Yes, apparently it was "queer" till the Californian homosexuals had their Good As You civil rights campaign in the 60s.

I've stood outside Avery's main gates many a time and never seen those Liverpool ones. I can only guess they're used somewhere inside.

Being pedantic, that's the old Winson Green Picture Palace on the corner of Winson Green Road and Wellington Street, not "Road". (I wish we'd been posh enough for me to be born in a road):torn:

Re. post #41 I go along with the bus being broken down. The people, seemingly, coming out the front to me seem to be making their way from the back. Re. post #1 The first place I pushed a pram/pushchair was in Dublin. Having flown from Brum we were killing time to catch a train to the west by...

I think we're getting a bit confused here between Soho Works, which was in Handsworth, and Soho Foundry in Smethwick where three of my sisters worked at different times in the 60s. I remember the two younger ones being reprimanded for being "improperly dressed" because they wore fashionable...

I reckon it's a full cheese or a bass drum or maybe summat between the two. :anonymous:

My mother did quite a lot of her shopping there. The rest was done on The Flat.

The Fleet Air Arm was the early name for the aircraft naval aircraft squadrons. According to Wikipedia the Roc was a fighter aircraft but these were often converted to carry aerial torpedoes. And although primary a naval plane it may also have been used by the RAF. A lot of aircraft were used by...

Yup, that's a great collection. You like exactly what draws me to Street Photography.

It does look like those in the pictures my brother had taken on HMS Venerable so I'd go with it being a Fleet Air Arm plane.

Yeah, Bonfire Night was a big event round our way too. The Burns family, Irish Catholics, over the road from us had a bigger bonfire but over at our house my brother gave a firework display on top of the outside loo roof - a flat slab of concrete - which always drew a crowd. One of his favourite...

What a great collection of pictures. Post No. 10 I remember the Victory Cafe was a bit further from town than Snowhill. I used it when I worked at Cannings and the cafe was dead opposite, where Livery Street runs into Gt. Hampton Row. I believe there's a nursery on that site now.