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I remember the Morrises and the Dockers, wasn't she Katie? I visited the area when only our house, 26, 24 and a few others were standing and a couple of years later when the new houses were built. I have driven around there a couple of times since.

What a challenge, where do you start from Bill Haley to the Mothers of Invention. It is dead easy to say who I haven't seen. I never saw the Beatles (nor Elvis, of course)

Gina, did you know any of these: Christine Trotter, Johnny Wells, Valerie Hale, Eddie Madeley, Ronnie Pierce, Duncan Bagley?

The name Lutwych rings a bell. The Clarkes lived at 43 where the God Bless our Boys was. It was a long time ago. Sadly I've forgotten the names of many friends. Jack and Molly Rudhall died many years ago but their daughter Pat is still alive. I went to Burbury Street and then Handsworth Grammar

I think it was actually in Hatchett Street, off Summer Lane. It was more than a youth club, it was a Methodist Church. I think there was an original church next door which was bombed in the war. Havergal House was set up in 1888 by the Methodist church in Birmingham as a girls club. It was named...

Very sad news; my condolences to his family

Gina, you must have lived in the terrace with the 'God Bless Our Boys' painting; you must have been a couple of doors down from the Clarkes. Did you know Barbara Clarke? I lived over the road at 26 next door to Rudhall's shop.

Great stuff Lyn. I have enlarged it to see what the notice board might say but it looses resolution. Anyway its good to see it at last

I'm fine Lyn thanks, hope you are too. Many thank Phil but if you look at Mike's map you will see the Welsh church marked in red. Move down to the bottom of Wheeler Street and you will see St Matthias's marked on the corner of Farm Street. Nice photo though

I don't think that there was ever a bookshop on the premises after Cornish's went. Of course there was Hudsons up the road in New Street who also had a shop near The College of Advanced Technology (Aston University) at Gosta Green and at Edgbaston on the University campus.

Send many thanks to Mike. Yes that is dead on. If you look to the far right near the bottom you will just see 'Chap' which is the Guildford Street Chapel

Brian, the Welsh one was at the bottom near Farm Street

Bore da Pectwal, croeso i'r fforwm. That is the chapel on the left. At the time it was a factory run by Cowdrill's, who also had a wireless shop in Wheeler Street, just down from the Welsh chapel. I don't think that the Guildford Street chapel had any Welsh connections. I have seen details of it...

My memory of being in the shop is very clear but the visual part is a little Hazey. I remember a large space lined and filled with book shelves. Quite a high ceiling. At one end a high balcony area ( I suppose these days we would call it a mezzanine) where the staff sat at there desks. Edwardian...

Mike, I was interested to see the 119 Alcester Road address. In the fifties there was a large second hand book shop in Moseley. I often went there but one of the old chaps there seemed very reluctant to sell anything. I remember going in once and asking for a particular book. He quickly claimed...

I didn't know about book signings until a few years later until I was a student in London. I will have to look to see if I have any Cornish stamps though. I've just looked at one that I know I got from there but it doesn't have a stamp, it was two and six pence. It may be worth a bit though as...

A great bookshop; I used it regularly and still have many of the books I bought there. What I found out recently is that Burne Jones the artist and William Morris the designer and writer used it. Here is a quote from the biography of Burne Jones 'The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and...

Only two jumpers Jean, you must have been hardy

Referring back, I don't think we lacked ventilation. With plenty of draughts built in and single skin walls, there was ventilation throughout the houses. Also we forget that in the past many houses had shutters and needed them. I didn't long for ventilation in the winter when I went to bed fully...

You would hear the newspaper sellers calling 'spatchy mail, spatchy mail'