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Yes i remember it well, I used to walk past it nearly every night on my to the Three Horseshoes pub, cant say i saw it on the way home.

As kids we lived for ten years in Pigott street which was opposite the hospital on Bath row. 3/21....court 5. I found a Martini Henry rifle in the loft.

Yes, I remember Peter and i am sure you know my brother Terry Hanson and my mate Danny Baker.

Yes I remember that photo, it was a part of a TV news interview, I think it was conducted on the steps of the Bingo Hall Newtown.

Does anyone remember the Curry Centre, at the bottom of the Bristol Road almost next door to the Scala picture house. It was one of the first Curry Houses in Birmingham.

Hi Phil, thanks for your reply but I don't think I can help in your investigation. I have not been in touch with anyone from the BB for years let alone if it's still operating in Kings Heath. Not sure about playing at Queensbridge school we always played in Highbury Park. I don't think you ever...

Hi, I have just discovered quite a few Ansells Argosy magazines in a box in our loft. Is there any brewery museum interested. There is a photo of a football team looks 70s also a bunch of fishermen. I have also found some transport beer tickets.

Hi, we lived at 3/21 Pigott street from 1950/1959, if you face Pigott street while standing in Owen street, you could just about see our entry. Myself and younger brother both attended Pigott street school and like you my other brother was born at 3/21. What was your surname .

My wife speaks really broad Brummie , I'm surprised she wasn't offered the job as speech coordinator on the PEAKY BLINDERS series.

My dad used to call his sister,(our wench) and his brother was (our kid) even though his brother was a lot older.

Yes it is Ansells Brewery, it is not in the 70s but much earlier. If you ever walked up Park road you would recognise this as the very old brewery gates, the newer entrance gate was much the same. The drays used to enter from coming down the hill and queing up until a space was available on the...

Yes I remember your dad from my days at Aldridge Depot, didn't know him well because he was on the bottles and me the drays we didn't seem to mix much. Nice man something to do with country and western I think, The Silver Saddle comes to mind. Sorry to hear your news.

Excuse me for asking but are you related to Harry or Gerry Ensor.

I don't know if I told anyone on this site that when I was a kid living in the back to backs in Pigott street off Bath Row, I climbed into our loft and found an army rifle, I since found out from by brother in law who was in the Britsh Army it was a Martini Henry dated in 1890s. What a find.

We forget how brave these boys were. We owe them dearly, my dad was 19, when I was a kid I found his jungle hat along with other stuff in a box under the stairs.

Hi, my dad was in Burma when he was 19. What a thought. Here is his medals, the Burma Star is second from the left.

Great photo John, we used to live at the bottom right corner, as a kid I used to drop off the high part of the wall into someone's garden. It was quite a fall for a young lad under nine years of age, what a memory, thanks. Ps I can still make out the little gate entrance near the bottom corner...

Thanks for that, I have seen it before, it's a photo before my time. When I attended in the middle 50s that one had been demolished and a new one built, I think the school at that time was a grammar school. Cheers.

Hi, did anyone go to the Ritz dance hall Kings Heath in the middle 60s.

Hi, did anyone attend Pigott street school in the middle to late 50s.