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Visited last Friday. Deeply disappointed. The cafe and shop were open and seemed to be doing good business. The Round Room is open with Epstein's Lucifer as the centre piece and a small selection of old and modern art but only a fraction of the old museum and gallery were open unless you paid...

One of the comments on this website (You have to scroll down quite a bit to find it) - says that The Bacchus bar replaced Atkinsons Bar in 1992-93. It has recently had a revamp. Depending on your taste you'll either love or hate it - Its as if the props and scenery from a myriad stagings of "Les...

Theres an existing thread on the Bacchus Bar (see below) which suggests its where the Midlands Hotel Bars once were. Its been restored recently. - Some very impressive "Trompe-l'œil " paintwork. The thread at the link below also has information about the Midland hotel and the bars within it - No...

Hi Dobogen. - Just had to alert you to this old photo on Ebay - It shows Simms lane. where your girlfriend lived. It looks very different today - all the houses are still there but the gardens have mostly been paved over for car parking...

Brilliant! - I certainly think that "Alright Bab!" neon sign should be a permanent fixture in the city centre somewhere!

There is currently a postcard on ebay showing the cafe at Drakes Cross that used to be at the corner of the Alcester Road and Houndsfield Lane, not far from the parade of shops. The building is still there - Now an Estate Agents. Unfortunately the postcard has a banner printed over it. But hope...

The Shops have been in the news recently (including a report on Midlands Today) because of a string of robberies - And apparently its all Birmingham's fault! - At least according to the Bromsgrove conservative MP - The local Police station was closed down under the Conservatives when Theresa May...

The Wythall History society used to have a website with lots of photos of the Drakes Cross, Wythall and Hollywood areas. Sadly, it seems to have disappeared - But the Society does have a Facebook page - If you're on Facebook you might ask if they have anything on file. Best o'luck.

The corner sweet shop I remember most was next to Paganel Junior School, on the roundabout on Swinford Road. The building is still there, now a chippy. The building itself looks like it was built in the 1930s but in the 1960s the inside was done out in wooden panelling, perhaps reclaimed from a...

Radiorails posted another photo of the shop and the junction on the thread for Jiggins lane back in 2018. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/jiggins-lane.38631/

That makes sense. Perhaps the planning application was to turn the shop into a normal house. I think it was knocked down as part of "improving" the junction. It was always a very tight turn for buses and lorries coming up that incline at the top of Jiggins Lane. There wasn't much space, as...

Hi Paul - I was wrong on my original posting. - The shop I showed as still being there on Google Streetview wasn't the Sweet Shop. I met up with my brothers yesterday and they remembered that Hudson's Shop was just a few yards away directly on the corner of Jiggins Lane and Genners Lane / Adams...

Francois Kmiecik and his orchestra, who have the four tracks on the "B" side of the record seems to have made this style of Polish folk/band music popular in France. There are videos of the orchestra playing on YouTube but they seem to have been set up so that you can't link to them. - If you go...

Also at the link below - If you click on the "about" field on the left it gives the date as 1961. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k88115760

Cheers Paul, - The building is still there (see link), although it's no longer a newsagents. Old Mr. Webb kept it going for years, it was a Post Office as well. He became quite famous for the number of times he had faced-off armed raiders...

Hi Paul, Was that the Newsagents near the Junction of Jiggins Lane and Genners Lane? - Run by a Mr Webb? (I think).

Pretty sure that KEFW Grammar had Saturday morning attendance into the 1960s. Edit - Just checked through to someone who was there from '61 and he says they didn't have Saturday attendance then. I had a distinct memory of expecting to have to go to school on a Saturday when I started at KEFW in...

They are very much still there, visible for miles around. There are two hangars right next to each other. It had been planned to operate both the private-industry R100 (built by Vickers) and the state-sponsored R101 (essentially a reverse-engineered WW1 German Zeppelin design built for the...

Could it have been Bert Evans? - His story is at these links... https://blesma.org/about-us/obituaries/bert-evans-obituary/ https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/war-hero-bert-evans--6169807

It was the 2nd (Regular) Battalion that suffered at the Wormhoudt massacre, The remains of the Battalion were evacuated through Dunkirk. The 7th and 8th Territorial Battalions also fought in Northern France and were evacuated through Dunkirk.