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No Bob, I lived in Lozells my friend did and I had a girlfriend from there an went with her to the Palace. I went to Handsworth Grammar and went to places like the Trocadero, the Windsor, the Stagedoor Club, Sombrero, etc., in town

PS I am wearing my first pair of brothel creepers (then fashionable shoes for you youngsters who have never heard of them)

I saw many concerts at the Town Hall in the 50s including Humphrey Littleton. This photo is from the local paper of a Lionel Hampton concert in 1956. Sitting down half cut off on our right is my friend from school, Tony Green from Erdington, I am sitting next to him behind the rain coat. We were...

I saw many concerts at the Town Hall in the 50s including Humphrey Littleton. This photo is from the local paper of a Lionel Hampton concert in 1956. Sitting down half cut off on our right is my friend from school, Tony Green from Erdington, I am sitting next to him behind the rain coat. We were...

I would say the Black Horse

My dad drove the 69 and 70 in the 1940, and 50s. I used the 70 to get to school fro Wheeler Street to Grove Lane. If I was lucky and he was driving I got a free trip

Hi Trevor, just found your post, although a little late. Good to hear from you anyway. I would have started there around 1945/6

mae hynny'n gwneud synnwyr nowr (makes sense now)

He had a sister-in-law Hilda married to his brother Samuel. A sister Rene, a sister Lily, brothers Arthur, Samuel, and Stanley, mother Elizabeth and father Samuel. My dad and his brothers all served in WW1

My family were friends with a Shaw family. I knew of Lil Shaw; by the time I was around she lived in Bevington Road

My sister’s mother-in-law was a member of the Volante family

Yes that should be fine. The clip is too large for email but quite small for wetransfer. Dropbox would be OK but you need to subscribe for that. You can use wetransfer for a one off

When sent those photos to you Lyn I used WeTransfer.com. Jcornwall could use that, they are free

Just saw the photos of the back of number 22. As kids we would start in our back yard, number 26 and climb across the walls and through the gardens until we reached Eden Place, behind number 14

A better version of the image (originally provided by Lyn)

Just found post #138 where you can see the house with a car in front.

If you go back to post #12 you will see a photo of Guildford Street taken by my brother in law. On the right you can see half a large poster on the wall. To the right of the poster is the Philips house, which of course, can’t be seen.

Yes I remember the Phillips but can remember little about them. It was a long time ago. I think I remember a mother and daughter, right next door to Rudhalls. The one blacked out on the census may be the daughter. I can’t remember a Mr Philips. I can remember at the next house was Mrs Hewitt who...

Has Antony Gormley's Iron: Man, originally in Victoria Square be relocated yet; if so where?

The Diskery definitely. You could brows freely at at the stock of older 78s upstairs (LPs hadn’t been invented). The owner was amazing, he knew the serial number of every record