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Thank you! It could be him, although I think he did work in 'engineering' at some point it would have been fairly basic. I know he did any kind of work he could find during the depression era in the 30s.

I don't have all his details offhand, his name was Charles Spencer and his home address was in the Aston area of Birmingham. I guess he would have been born in the 1890s. Correct that, more like 1880s or late 1870s I believe.

My grandad was in the Royal Flying Corps but, although he was a Brummie, he was based at Hendon. He wasn't a flyer though, I think he was doing something in the engineering line as that was his trade. My nephew has his RFC cane which has a metal knob with the insignia on the top end.

Was sorry to read a couple of days ago that he had died, my sister had a crush on him back in the day, I had to pass the news on to her, she lives in Germany and hadn't heard the news then. My nephews name is Richard which could have been influenced by her liking him! Photo of him in Hamlet at...

Just read on April's Bulls Head Bob blog that guitarist John Caswell has recently died. RIP https://bullsheadbob.blogspot.com/?m=1

That's very interesting! The building is still there but I didn't know it had been a cinema. There was a snooker hall in there more recently (well, could have been a good few years now!) and the entrance was a door in Pinfold Street, I guess that room must have been part of the cinema.

Quite an impressive attempt for 1910! I wonder how the culprits were identified.

Lovely flowers!

Thanks! That's personally interesting as I knew the artist Paul Bartlett when he worked at the MAC in the early 90s.

Sad to read :( George Foreman delivers a blow to Joe Frazier on the way to winning his first heavyweight title in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973. Photograph: AP RIP

It looked vaguely familiar from an old photo I've seen before - is it the Law Court's end of Corporation Street somewhere?

What about this proposal for Gas Street Basin?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm1dew2mlro

As our late member oldMowhawk posted back in 2018, I too remember the British Restaurant in Perry Barr, next to the Library (now gone) but I never went in there.

Happy Birthday!

I do, my parents were great boxing fans! Did he live in Birmingham?

The Council are now exploring the possibility of making Station Street a Conservation Area https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg81e4g8dyo

The Council are now exploring the possibility of making Station Street a Conservation Area https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg81e4g8dyo

Jasper is 80 today :D https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ljg21dvn7o Happy Birthday!

I agree, it looks like a complaint of some sort!

Thomas Sudeley? He was Baron Seymour of Sudeley.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seymour,_1st_Baron_Seymour_of_Sudeley#:~:text=Thomas%20Seymour%2C%201st%20Baron%20Seymour%20of%20Sudeley%2C%20KG%2C%20PC,1547%E2%80%931553).