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Hi Jean, long time since we worked at Ansells, how is Pete these days, where I live there's only two other ex employees so we don't get to know the latest news and gossip. Regards.

Yes, I remember this pub, what a pain to deliver to, almost alway there was a car parked in the old cobbled street leading down to the pub,which no one ever owned and if you managed to get anywhere near to the pub the landlord or manager was hard to get out of bed and open up.

Hi, Dennis. Did you live in this area at one time?

Cleve Terrace can be see to the right of this photo, was taken standing in Owen street.

Hi, does anyone remember Cleve Terrace, it ran from Owen street to Bath row,where the girls entrance to Piggot street school was accests. We had your typical up the entry Peaky Blinders betting shop in Owen street.

Yes it was storage in later years, I remember one Xmas putting hundreds of crates of beer in it, but I think originally was built for use to do with the bowling green, maybe a shelter.

Hi Elaine, just noticed where you moved to. Northfields. I worked behind the bar at the Black Horse in 1966/67, I used to work the upstairs bar Thursday and Saturday night dance, being as we are the same age perhaps you used to attend?

Hi Elaine, not sure if I replied to you, but your right when we moved from Piggot street to Stirchley on the back of my uncle's coal lorry (which incidentally he owned plus another), a boy who lived two doors away who became my mate, said to me years later, we knew even before you arrived in...

Hi all, I am trying to find anyone who lived in and around Piggot street in the 50s. I attended Piggot street school then St Thomas's on the corner of Granville street.

Hi, I started at Ansells in Feb 1969 and the wooden barrel was still in use till about 1972, I can Rember one day when it was quiet doing none stop runs from the brewery to the sports ground at Perry Barr taking empty barrels to be burnt on the annual bonfire. We were still using wooden...

Hi, I remember a hardware shop in Aston, it stood opposite the ITV television studio, it was owned by Ansells Brewery and was called (The Big Broom).

Yes I remember, I lived in Pigott street and our local bookie was up an entry in Owen street. Just like Peaky.

Done it. Bring the photo up on screen, press the middle button in while clicking the side button, that takes a screen shot, then up load it to the web site.

No good, it's just not turning.

I will turn them upside down on the iPad and try again. Thanks

Apple iPad. I've been posting on here for years, in fact I posted another photo after the four trains and it was ok.

That's good, talk me through.

Your right, they definatly think we are from the Black, I've told a few people the same thing when they start laying in on a bit thick.

My wife is a true Brummie, she should be advising for the Peaky Blinders TV show, i can't understand her half the time.

Me aged 22 in My Cellar yard, 1969, a boy in a man's world.