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It's called Trams At Night by Robert Calvert Nick

We have this print of the street

Thanks for the reply, as you say the numbering does seem a bit strange. several people with the same number.

There's another pub at 82 Digbeth, do you know the name of that one? Nick

On the 1851 census James Bond is a lodger at 77 Digbeth. Head: SHERMAN, Charles Neighbors 251399 Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace Charles SHERMAN Lodg(Head) M 48 M Traveller London-London Emma ((Edward)) SHERMAN LdgW...

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Where have all those years gone? I'm 2nd left sitting down

Michael Dunlop won the super bike race yesterday doing 128 MPH.

51-15 was my intake number, By coincidence I was also working in the Signals Office the day of the Coronation, I had mates that went to Korea, luckily they returned OK

I was in BAOR, posted there in 1952, was in the Royal Signals, wireless operator, attached to 6Th Infantry Brigade. We had about 5 Brummies in the troop,kept in touch with one when he came out a month after me, and still meet up twice a week.

I visited Belsen back in the 1950's I agree it was a very eerie place. remember the several signs 'Here Lies The Body's Of five Thousand Jews'

More pictures of Park Lane here. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=38693&page=2

Thanks for the reply Brenda, It was my father who was the pigeon fancier, It must have been in the 1940 when we went there. Nick

I think I visited a shop in Parliament Street that sold pigeons,

I would say by the hairstyle and the sandals the picture would have been taken in the 1930's

I wonder if they meant Holt fleet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holt_Fleet

An Entire means the horse is a Stallion, hasn't been castrated.

I would think it’s always been the same regarding old for new, the buildings that we now admire probably upset the people that had to be moved out so that they could be built. Nick

I don't think Bolton road finished at Coventry road, it ran from Bordesley Park road to Golden Hillock road. Nick

Found a few interesting facts about the Hall Of Memory in Arthur Mee's book 'Warwickshire' It cost £24,000, contains 14,000 names of Birmingham men who died, the book is written on parchment with ink that will not fade,took 4years to complete,pages are turned 3 times a week, and it takes 8...