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Grey's Department Store Brenda: My mother-in-law worked at Grey's, in the offices, at some time in the 60's. Her name is Gladys Dennis and she would have been aged around 60 then. She is still alive (at 101) - so it must have been a healthy working environment at Grey's. Her maiden name was...

Dance Studios - supplemental By strange coincidence, after posting the previous entry, I found that there is a photograph of the building that contained Laura Dixon's Dance Studios posted in this forum under another current thread "Mens Shopping". A Google for the name of the shop on the ground...

Dance Studios Sakura : I think the dance studio you are referring to, near New Street Station, was Laura Dixon's. I learned to dance there in the 50's. It was in John Bright Street on the second floor of a corner building that overlooked the bottom of Hill Street and the side of the station...

C&A When I lived in Birmingham I used to buy my (gents) business suits from C&A. They were always terrific value. Not long after I moved to Leeds, C&A decided to close all their UK shops and they had a closing down sale. Absolutely everything really had to go. I went into their Leeds branch...

Ward End Park Like DribblinWizard, I remember the grassy hill in Ward End Park with the lake at the bottom. In the winter when it snowed, kids would toboggan down the hill and hope to come to a stop before they continued into the lake. I never saw anyone fall into the water but one year the...

On my desk, alongside my keyboard, I have a round metal tin with the label Hedges L260 Snuff - white background, black lettering. I keep paper clips and drawing pins in it now. Underneath the logo, it says Hedges L260 Snuff Ltd, Birmingham, England. My grandfather took snuff and I expect it...

Does anyone remember a (weekly?) paper in the 1950s called Billy's Weekly Liar? I think it was Birmingham-based. It wasn't a proper newspaper, just a collection of jokes and spoofs made to look like news items in a newspaper. It looked a bit like the old Children's Newspaper - anyone remember...

British Restaurants There was a British Restaurant in Ward End Park in the white house known as Park House or Ward End House (picture and potted history of the house at https://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/east.htm ) - but it does not mention it as having been a British Restaurant. I remember going...

Re: House Bakers I lived next door to Hawtins the music shop when I was a boy. Jack and Mary Hawtin were the owners. They sold records and sheet music. There was a piano inside the shop on which Jack would play from sheet music if someone wanted to hear what the tune sounded like before they...

I used to have a friend who lived in Reynold's Road, Handsworth back in the 1950's. We were teenagers and his name was David Westwood, I don't remember the house number but it was about halfway along the road I think. He lived there with his mother and father and younger brother - I can't...

Houses Bakers, Alum Rock Road I remember House's. They had a shop on Alum Rock Road a few doors down from the Capitol Cinema. I lived exactly opposite for about ten years from about 1946 - when I was 6 years old. My father had a hardware shop with three petrol pumps outside that served petrol...