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Happy Birthday! Hope you're enjoying the day :) Thanks so much for all the great information you post on the Forum!

Yes, I would definitely visit if I was still in the area, apparently they have one of the world's largest collections of Ruskin pottery as well as other things!

After reading the article I've just looked up Wednesbury Museum, I must admit I didn't know there was one! Quite impressive architecture... Photo by Jamie Cowling.

Photographs of the Black Country by Tom Hicks.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c367706k350o

I think this is it... From here.. https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b6_gunmakersarms.html

Oh, so very sorry to hear that :confused: My sympathies and thoughts go out to you and your family Warren.

Sounds like an April Fool joke! The bit about the 24lb eels - not the bench.

That was quite some work! I can remember when they were the N'Betweens, I had an idea I saw them at the Plaza, Handsworth in Birmingham, 1966 or 67 but they are not listed at any of the Regan's venues (Plaza, Ritz or Plaza Old Hill), surprising as most local bands played at those places at some...

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Very sad :confused:

I remember the Post Office being there, I had a Saturday job in that area of Soho Road in the mid 60s.

I went to a former school friend's 21st birthday party in the Red Lion. Is the pub still open?

I wonder if the original photo posted would be on the corner of Thornhill Road just across from Handsworth Park?

Ah yes, sorry! It was the mention of James Watt's daughter Ann living there on both photos that confused me.

More on the Lodge here.... A large 5-bay Georgian house stood between what is now Waverhill Road and Holliday Road in extensive grounds. Thornhill House was bought by Matthew Boulton in 1793 and subsequently let to James Watt Junior who had it refurbished. 1818 Boulton's daughter Ann moved in...

I was just wondering that! There was a Police station in the Handsworth one wasn't there, that's what I associate it with!

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Thanks again! Nice to have all those details, I will pass them on to my sister and nephew.

Thanks so much, that's brilliant! Yes, they were my Aunties, my Dad was the last in the family, born 1925. My grandma's name was Esther, both of my grandparents died before I was two so I don't really remember them.

No, that wouldn't be him, Dad's family were definitely Aston people!