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Hi Paul, my mother and I left Guildford Street around 1964 after my father had died and my brother and sisters were all married. Your house was was where I thought. It was the Keelings who lived next door to the Wells. Mrs Keeling was Pat, the daughter of the Rudhalls (the shop at number 24)...

Hi, Henryville. Ronnie Wells was Johnny’s younger brother. As he is the one you remember I guess you were younger than me. If number 15 was were I think it was I remember a girl who was a similar age to me who could have been your sister but I can’t remember her name. If you explore this thread...

Sorry, they were two different places. The stage door was in New Meeting Street an the Zambezi was further over near the side of New Street Station. I spent most of my late teens at both - mainly the Stagedoor. Usually went to the Zambesi after going to the Trocadero pub

Sorry a bit late; re post #482 my family lived at 5 + 6 Eden Place a bit later, from about 1895 to about 1938 then I had friends there in the 40s and 50s. Coincidentally a family friend who lived at the top of Eden Place in the 30s moved up to near Sandown Terrace in the 40s

I remember all three of those names from Paddington Street. I bought a guitar off someone in Paddngton Street who was probably from one of those families. I think paid £6

Besides spending my youth in those places my first ever chili con carne was at the Firebird

Just saw post #106 - No I was not from Erdington but the part of a face next to me on our right is my mate from school at the time - Tony Green who lived in Slade Road Erdington

Sorry got my memory mixed up. The book that Morris bought there was Morte d’arthur which Mooris later published with Aubrey Beardsley illustrations. Anyway, the bookshop was Cornish’s. Doh!

There was another well known bookshop whose name has slipped my mind on the corner of New Street and Corporation Street that I often bought books from. In the 19 century, before Corporation Street was built the artist Burne-Jones was in that shop and saw a copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales but...

Mike’s experience is certainly like my experience in the Moseley shop. However, if they didn’t move to Mosely to the 70‘s, I was then living and working on London

Maybe that was the bookshop I used; it certainly sounds like it

Well I suppose in my late teens we started dressing as teddy boys then in Italian suits then hippy dress, long hair beards, etc., Not the dress for a respectable book shop

Yes I knew that place. Around about late 50's in my late teens I wanted to buy Plato's Republic. (I spent a lot of times in the Stagedoor Club, the Trocadero, etc.,) In the window at Moore's Bookshop I saw a book by Plato. Me and my friend went into the shop and the bookseller walked straight...

Was that a second hand bookshop?

We kept a Davy lamp in ours in the winter to stop the pipes freezing

I cheated and used Google translate - is says: try changing it to Chinese

尝试将其更改为中文

There is a postcard of Villa Road in post #1. Well what do you know; while tidying up a dressing table at home I found the attached postcard. I cannot remember where I bought it, possibly an antique market at Builth Wells in Wales. The date is 2nd February 1904 and the message translates...

I have that Henry Ingram in my records but as far as I know, he is unconnected to my family although some did live around Lennox Street in the late 19th century. incidentally I was at school (Burbury Street) with a Stych can’t remember His first name. Also no aristocrats in my family.

Yes that’s right