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In the 1851 census there’s only 3 properties’s listed in Crooked lane and one of them is uninhabited. Nick

The 2nd picture in post #3 shows the Old Peacock pub were my G Grandfather was living on the 1861 census. Nick

I remember the area well, as my favourite shop 'Bobs Models' was just past there.:encouragement:

The number 594 Coventry Rd would be past Small Heath park entrance, in the picture it looks like the number 508 is next door to the cinema which would put it opposite Golden Hillock Rd as the caption suggests. Perhaps they moved at some time. Nick

I remember my father telling me about a picture house somewhere there by Hawkins shop. Nick

We were talking about this subject recently, and how some of the older woman just wouldn't let mothers who hadn't been Churched into their house. bit different nowadays 80% of mothers haven't bothered to get married. :courage:

Not the 1950's, but in the 1970's theirs address was 389 & 423 Coventry Rd Nick

In picture #515 I wonder what the box on the wall is.? Looks like some sort of bird cage to me. Nick

Not at these prices. https://www.cambridgeshirecoins.com/epages/es121869.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es121869/Categories/%22Maundy%20Money%22

I believe 'Jimmy Jesus' real name was Hands, his family owned the Calthorpe Motor Cycle Co. Nick

I think its the river Blythe in Maxtoke Lane Nick

I don't think they would work now, remember they ran in the middle of the road, so you had to get there to board the tram, with today's traffic you'd never make it. :courage:

I never knew there was so many different sorts of um. https://hem.bredband.net/lisselbo4/SHOOTING-BRAKE/index.htm

It could have been a number 8 Bus that knocked it down.:soap:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23109971

Bang goes that myth that you could walk the streets without fear in the good old days. Mike, how much was he carrying in gold? I can't make out the figure after the £ sign. Nick

I found this bit about the Corps, the chap who signed the notice got a mention. The first adjutant (appointed in 1860) was Captain McInnis, who retired in 1870, having received bodily injuries through being thrown from his horse; he was succeeded by the present Adjutant-Colonel Tarte. The...

In Small Heath where I lived the council bought the houses off private Landlords, spent loads of money ‘modernising’ them, and then knocked them down about two years later.

I think the rota was decided by the time you'd been in the terrace, ie The last in had the day the other didn't want. Nick

No Viv,they only had them if the cellar had been converted into an air raid shelter, people with a garden would have had an Anderson shelter, and there was also one called a Morrison shelter, it was what you might call a reinforced table , if you do a Google search for ‘Morrison Shelter you...