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The photo of The White Horse, was it an hotel.

Pedrocut, you never fail to amaze me with your news clipings, having a dog there would proberly mean it was a residence. Brilliant.

Its no longer there, just a pile of rubble

If my memory serves me right, back in the late 70s Ansells turned it to a big steak house creating a restraunt in the lounge area. A few years later all the rooms were knocked into one creating as Janice said Toad Hall, after a nother name change it became an Indian restraunt wich it still is...

Easy Morturn ,Win 2. Must say i enjoyed today as well nice to meet new members.

Bit late i know, but put me down Pen.

Im going into Birmingham in April and staying over for one night, That hotel is still available for £85 (Breakfast extra). I think i will give it a miss.

Mike i often pop in the Blue bell in the summer,next time im there i will think of you.

I used to know a lad who worked there on a Satuday his name was Noel T----- this would be around 1964.

Tony take a look at post 149

It led to the car park in park street.

Myself and my brother and sister and my 3 daughters were all married at st Giles. The church had a reovation in the 70s i believe.

Thanks for the update Grea Good News.

The March Hare is an Indian restraunt Named the Easten Inn untill last year then changed its name to The Indian Kitchen. The Seasprey is now, im pretty sure is a chinese take-a-way.

As mentioned The one on sheaf lane was the March Hare (supplied them with meat pies in the 60s) The one by the cinema was the seasprey

Hi mbenne, Like you i dont remember the one at the top of Cranes Park rd (bus terminus) to young. The one at the bottom opened in the late 70s/early 80s . it was called Charlies Chicken bar due to the fact he couldnt get planing permision for a fish and chip shop, allthough he sold evey thing...

Hi mbenne, your memory goes back a little further than mine. I can remember the shop opposite Fosters being Smarts the pork butchers. Now just opened as an italian resturant befor that an indian then before that a chinese one. The green grocers was a bungalow, not part of the CO-OP but owned by...

I know where you mean Elmdon Boy, they moved to where i discribed when the Wells Green shopping centre was built 1966/68 ish. The part of the coventry road with the service road with the trees seperating the main road used to have a great chioce of shops , butchers, green grocers, chemists ...

Elmdon Boy there was a Turners on the Coventry road, It was near the Junction with Coalway/Coleway Avenue Sheaf lane side

Great painting Eric, he looks a bit like Sweep ( Sooty and Sweep)