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Remember the Hot Dog barrow on the corner of Navigation Street and Hill Street ?

Re: Was there a cinema near Ethel St/New Street Don't know if anyone has replied but it was the ABC I used to go there to see press screenings, and met Bert Kwok on one occasion he's a really nice bloke. The Chinese community used to take it over on a Saturday night for Chinese films. It also...

1967 through until 1978 all over the town centre both for Teds and Vincents. I did sell ice cream from a barrow in the summers of 1975 and '76. One thing I always remember that happened that springs to mind with Barry that I will never forget. I had finished work and met up with some of the...

I have a large bottle of Camp Coffee in the cupboard. I put it on Vanilla Ice Cream to make coffee ice cream. My other half is from Yorkshire and makes really Yorkshire Pudding. She also makes Apple Pies that make your mouth water. She has a website where she puts the recipes. If you want...

Yep it's still going I had a look at it on Google Street View :) On the subject of the Rainbow Casino, I used to live in Portland Road remember going there a few times. This thread is really bring back memories. Bit off topic but this came to mind. I used to sell Hot Dogs from a barrow on...

That was the old Post Office that was on the corner of St Martins Street. Went there a couple of times, not my sort of club.

It's strange how a comment out of the blue can affect you, I had no idea he had died, and I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes. I knew Erskine T and he was responsible for much of my love of music from the States, bands that were never heard of over, yet he would pull an LP out and say you've...

Going back through this thread it's brought back memories, the Hawleys Bakery on Moseley Road. Milk deliveries from Unigate the Coop and Bache's Dairy in Quinton. The Bowling Alley that sold Ansells Pin Mild and cinema at Quinton. Masons food wholesalers in Hurst Street. If anyone wants...

That looks like the area my Step-Sister lived in. She and her family lived in St Martins Street of the top of Broad Street. There was a Post Office on the corner that became a strip club in later life. I can always remember visiting them it as a one down two up with a tiny kitchen. Toilets...

I worked at Elmdon for a short time in the late 60's and I was nearly blown over by the back wash from an Air France Super Constellation. In the late 60's the police at Elmdon were not part of the Birmingham Police.

I used to drink in the Tavern in the Town every evening but that evening I didn't have enough money so I gave it a miss and kept on working. When it reopened as the Yard of Ale it didn't have the same atmosphere as the Tavern.

There was another barrow on the corner of Bull Street and Temple Row and they were both owned by the same company, who also owned the hot dog barrows.

I have some photos of the aftermath of the damage to the Rotunda some where. I was in Corporation Street/Cherry Street when the bombs went off. I felt the ground move and then people were running past me then the sound of the emergency services arriving and a police cordon being put across...

Simple reason is that a lot of people didn't have fridges so, to stop the milk going off it was sterilised to allow it to keep for longer. Sterilised milk was mainly a Midlands thing and if you wanted to buy it in places like Bournemouth you would have to order it, and then only a few companies...

Hello All. I'll throw in my two pennorth on the subject. The first van was an old coach at Snow Hill was owned by one Ted Westly who used to sell hot dogs,tea and coffee. Ted played the trombone in the orchestra at the Alexandra Theatre and was the Equity rep at the Alex. Ted shut his van down...