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I can't remember off hand. I am in North Wales atvthe moment for my wife's second cousin's 100th birthday party. When I get home next week I will have a look through my family photos. I am sure I have one of the Shaw's. It was my sister Rene who was a Shaw family friend

I had several friends who worked there as nurses in the late fifties early sixties. I never visited there myself but did socialise with many of the staff. This is my personal view but I feel that although it called itself a mental hospital, I feel it was still a mental asylum. I am sad to say...

I knew about this event but only in recent years. I regret not knowing about it when I was a lad as I could have asked my dad about it. He was a bus driver, based there since the twenties and I wasn't born till the year after it happened.

There is a picture here Bramwell at post 158 https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=17625&page=11&highlight=Lennox which you may have seen before. C V Bull's butchers on the corner of Lennox St. I worked there when I left school. Next door is Lawley's but the fish and chip shop...

Was the fish and chip shop near Sid Lawley's green grocer?

And another, unfortunately a bit small

I have sent you an email John

The view from John's house, from his site and a view from my house in the snow. I'm rushing off to the dentist now John, down Llan Faes but I will send you an email later John

And you went to Handsworth Grammar John, but probably the year before me. Welcome back to Birmingham

John has a great site. What is quite strange is we seem to be neighbours. We must have crossed paths in Morrisons and other places many a time

Amazing; we always got on with David Turner at school. He was young and so related to our generation. He wrote and read short stories on the radio at the time but was very shy about it. We did have a cheeky nickname for him though. We called him Isaiah, (according to us) he had one eye higher...

In the early sixties I saw a play on the television that may have been Roy's first appearance. It was The Train Set by David Turner. (David Turner was a well known playwright at the time who upset Mary Whitehouse. He had also been my English teacher at school). If it is the play I think it was...

Great picture Lyn. Can just make out the sign says Jumble Sale - yn Saesneg (in English)

Nico, post #469. The table cloth would most likely have been oil cloth. Similar to lino but much thinner. A fabric like canvas treated with something like linseed oil

I have only been able to find one other photo that could be from Denmark but no sign of my brother there. However, I have found him in a 1939 group photo, bellow. He is in the back row, second from the left side of the photo. He would be 15 then. I am not sure how long he remained in the BB. He...

I've just spotted that one on Flikr but my brother can't be seen there. Still working my way through

Many thanks cosmic, I will work my way through them

Bob Marley twice

ps That photo was originally posted in #8

Interesting to see these Rob. My brother was in the BB in the 30s and went to Denmark with them. There is a photo of a Denmark camp at that link but it is much later in 1952. Here is a photo of my brother mid to late 1930s