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That's the Bull Ring of my teens! Many happy Saturday afternoons spent there. Yet, strangely I do like the new Bull Ring, think its a really nice place to shop

Hi, did you have any luck getting what you require? I'd be glad to help if I can as I live about 200 yards from the cemetery.

Thanks Stitcher for putting that photo on the thread, many happy memories of catching the 128/9 there on Saturday afternoons and occasionally in the evening as a teenager.

I must show my husband this picture as, unless another Birmingham garage used this bus number, this would probably be one of the buses he caught to school 8n Smethwick.

The 229, 233 and 221 were my school buses when I went to Bristnall Hall, I'm guessing you were from Bearwood as well! The 214 we would catch home from the Cape and when I lived in Smethwick, my nan and I would meet my mom off the 252 when she worked at Baines on the Cape. Thank you for the route...

I'm really looking early '70's as I know the buses changed around 1974? to become WMPTE, the 229/233 I never travelled on as Midland Red, but the Smethwick services I remember from when I was a little girl. Thank you for mentioning that book, I'll certainly have a look for it after Christmas.

Can anyone help me with finding pictures of the buses that ran just over the border in Smethwick such as the 221, 220, 233, 229, 214, 215, and the bus my husband caught to school the 212. I've searched in a lot of different websites but can't really find anything. Any help would be great, thanks.

My first drink was half a larger and black (yuk) at The Dog on the Hagley Road when I was 16 with a group of my school friends. We thought we were so sophisticated with our halves and 10 B&H, thing was one of our teachers was in there at the same time, he came over and quietly said, drink up...

I used to hate using that one at the King's Head Bearwood, when I had to catch the No 9 to my friends house in Halesowen in the early '80's, I'd much rather take my chance crossing on the opposite side of Bearwood Road to the subway, then crossing Lordswood Road to get to the bus stops. Glad it...

I remember my nan using Zam Buk on my cuts and grazes. When I was a little girl, I was always falling over and scraging my knees and elbows, sometimes getting gravel in them, nan used to bandage them up with Zam Buk on lint and she said it would get the gravel that couldn't be got out by bathing...

We had coal fires when I lived in Dibble Road and it was lovely to come home from school on a autumn day like today and get warm in front of it. Nan used to bank up the fire after I had gone to school, but it was still warm for me. It was especially useful during the 3 day week when we were...

I know many of you disliked the 1960's Bull Ring, but to me that was "My Bull Ring of my teenage years and I spent many, many happy Saturdays walking round there before buying some flowers from the flower lady at the bottom of the ramp, she was usually selling them off by the time I got there...

Had this fridge magnet as a Christmas present last year from my husband.

Just seen this, sums my Bolly up really!

I've noticed a couple of pictures of these smashing little dogs, Smudgers especially and of course my own avi and was just reading the National Service thread and saw them mentioned so decided to make this thread to talk about them. I'm the proud owner of a 5 year old Westie called Bolly. She...

I finally did find a photo of The Crown on the Black Country website, and will be going to Smethwick library to see if I can get a copy of it as I hope to frame the picture as a happy reminder of my childhood.

Another memory of Thimblemill Library, I would have been about 10 or 11, and by that time had read the majority of books in the Children's library. I think back then, (1970's) you had to be 13 to join the adult library, but I remember my mom asking the chief librarian if an exception could be...

The first library I used was Smethwick library on the High Street, where my nan used to take me to choose a book on her ticket before I went to school. My family were all avid readers and I could read before I went to school, love books. You used to go into the library off the High Street...

Wow! I actually live on Hales Lane and there is some newer style houses at the bottom of the road towards the Cricket Club, I'm assuming that is where the plane came down. I guessed there had been bomb damage as there is the same type of houses in Sabell Road and Cheshire Road where bombs fell...