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Unfortunately old buildings do pass their sell by date and it takes an enormous cost and effort to make them fit for their original purpose or convert them to another purpose. What we have to make sure is that the new building is better than the building it replaces. Even St. Peters cathedral in...

Thanks very much Morturn. I am glad someone else has remembered it more or less the same as me after nearly 60 years. Regards Arnold

I remember the "last concrete eyesore" being built. I used to work just off Broad St and sometimes I would walk into the centre of Brum to meet my girlfriend ( now my wife ) and go past the building site which had a small viewing area. The hole for the foundations was absolutely huge. It seemed...

My sister went to the college of Commerce in the 50's to learn shorthand and typing. The time it takes for me to put this on here I should have gone to. I remember the register office in Easy Row and then the wedding parties would go across the road for photos in Chamberlain Square by the...

My memory of Lewis's was in about 1948/9 when I was about 5 or 6 and my Dad took me to see father christmas at Lewis's on a Sat morning. The queue was out side the shop and along the pavement and we joined on to the end. After a while when the queue moved up my Dad realised the the queue...

My memory of the Co-Op in the centre of Birmingham is the restaurant in the basement. We would go to Brum to get school clothes in the late 40's / early 50's and we would go for lunch in the Co-Op ( the only time I can remember going out for a meal ). The restaurant was decorated it the art...

Will there be any room for any road traffic or will this be Metro only? Sorry if this is an obvious question but I have not been toBrum for years. Regards from Redruth Arnold

I have managed to find mine Regards Arnold

Was the engine made by Harvey's of Hayle? They made a lot of this type of pumping engines. Arnold

Thanks for all your replies. I will dig out the the photo and post it to the forum (When I find out how ). Regards Arnold

Hope someone can advise me. I have a photograph which was printed in the Birmingham Mail about 1963. Will it be OK to scan it and post it here? It was taken by a B M photographer so it would have been their copyright then but how long do these things last for? Any help much appreciated...

Thanks very much oldMohawk. I will have look at it later. Arnold

I wonder if this a similar problem to what I came across yesterday when I tried to access the Smethwick Local History Society: Home/Location I am using Norton protection and it gives a 'dangerous ' warning. How can one look at the problem without getting into dangerous situation? Thanks for...

Thanks for the information. Presumably from that the main part of the machine has not been preserved. I am not surprised, it would be a large lump of metal to find room for. Regards Arnold

The museum holds great memories for me. My friend David and I would go to lectures in the art gallery on Saturday mornings on our own. We were only about 8 or 9 years old in 1951/2 (Can you imagine that happening today ). After the lecture we would walk down Newhall St to the science museum for...

I remember this sweet shop well. My friend David and I would walk home from school (Castle Rd primary) and buy some sweets from this shop or we would buy foreign stamps from the Post Office up the road. If I remember correctly Fred's wife used to serve in the shop. Was his murder ever solved...

HI - I am Arnold Mason and I went to the Pyrenees with the apprentices in Stan Whithead's Landrover. Some of the names that I remember on that trip were John Mole, Larry Wheelan, Fred Crowe. Derek Herbert was a member of the club (Catana club ? ) but I don't think he was on that trip. My dad...