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Wrexham on the cov road and coach and horses was on the bordesley green opposite charles road.

Winbushes was on little green lane beside the cricketeers arms. The black horse was on green lane but further up from the swimming baths. We used to go to the loading bays of winbushes and steal boxes full of cakes. The black horse is/was (renamed) on the corner of great wood road.

Before my time. There was no pub there in 1970.

Whatever the name of that pub it was demolished before 1970.

I g I grew up here and I don't remember a pub that close. You had the black horse one side and cricketers the other but they weren't that close to the baths. How old is this photo?

What years did you do the disco. I remember those stairs at the end of the bar. Was the bowling green still there or was it car park at the back? I used to go there 1979 to around 1981.

There was a Liz Gourlay Married to Jack who moved to Palace Road around 1971ish. They were Scottish and had 7 sons and 1 daughter.

I lived on Palace Road from 1970. Raggy Allens was still going then but I'm sure it was gone by 1980s.

What year was your Dad there?

We used to pick people up outside pubs because that's how we used to navigate. A man may not know a street or shop, but the chances are he would know one of the pubs on the way to the job. If you asked someone for directions, pubs were a good landmark. I remember picking up a very well known...

It closed in 1986. There is a facebook page and they have the occasional reunion. There was the Main School behind the Rosary Church and the Annexe on Leigh Road. https://m.facebook.com/groups/36462491952?__tn__=C-R

I knew it as the Wrexham. It was dead in the week but busy on match days. There's a photo in the following link: http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b10_smallheathtavern.html Small Heath had its glory days from the 60s until the early 80s when everyone I knew started to...

78 to 62 from left to right.

Yep!

It didn't close in 66. I went there from 1973 to 1977 and if I wasn't a naughty boy I would have left in 1979. It shut in the 80s.

I grew up in Small Heath. As a toddler we lived on the Stratford Road. I went to Golden Hillock (infants) Tilton Road, infants and juniors, Holy Family Annex. We first used St Annes for Mass and the club that used to be on the corner before it was built behind the church. Our whole...

What years did your dad go to Holy Family School. In 1970s there were three Holy Family Schools in Small Heath. There was holy Family Main which was on the Coventry Road (still there). I went to Holy Family Annex in 1970 which was on Byron Road and then we moved to Jenkins Street which was...