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Ah yes! I know where you mean, the gully behind the school alongside where the railway line is, we used to walk over the foot bridge to get to the playing field.

There's a Cherry Orchard Road and School in Handsworth Wood so I guess there were probably orchards in that area once too.

Gosh, that's an interesting one I've never heard about before!

Ah yes...I can see where there original photo was taken now! I know King Edward House, two of the Inland Revenue District Offices were in there too, back in the 60s and 70s.

Ah yes...I can see where there original photo was taken now! I know King Edward House, two of the Inland Revenue District Offices were in there too, back in the 60s and 70s.

Yes, I remember giving blood at the building in Old Square in the 70s, I worked at the Inland Revenue then and we were allowed to go in working hours which was an incentive!

Spotted today outside Finsbury Park Station in North London, it made me smile and I had to take a photo......and yes, I did walk around it!!

Happy Birthday and thanks for all the work you do on the Forum! Enjoy your day :party:

Happy Birthday!

Adams was in Corporation Square...

Yes, I was just wondering if it was an Advert for the company seeing as the photo isn't in Kitts Green.

Yes! I had just made a guess at that and searched for Cornercroft Ace Works, seems like their main address was in Coventry, I wondered if they had a branch in Birmingham but couldn't see anything.

I don't know if anyone can read the name on the building behind, it's not very clear - definitely something '...works (maybe Ace?) Might give a clue of the position?

In actual fact, we went by train! My Junior School was in Perry Barr, I can't remember now what station we went from.

We went on a trip to Chester and Rhyl on a day trip from my Junior School in the 60s. It must have been a standard thing for Birmingham schools!

I think the Kelly's Directories were held in the Birmingham Reference Library. I remember going in to the library when it was next to the Town Hall to have a look in ones for the Shropshire area to look up some ancestors, that would have been for some years ago but I imagine they held ones for...

I guess that's the starlings you're referring to? No, they disappeared from the City Centre years ago.

I know exactly what you mean! There are people just up the road in my area of London that feed the pigeons and seagulls every day, they really are a pest, especially the pigeons flying around near ground level.

I worked for them too, as a Saturday girl back in the 60s when they had two shops on the Soho Road in Handsworth. Of course, back then they were Mr Newport and Mr Green to me! I remember when they had the market stall in Priory Square afterwards, as you say, they were really nice guys. Sorry...

I wasn't quite sure where to put this article but it connects with this post on the new Bullring development. The artist's original sketchings of the bull have been found and are to be auctioned... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gw044zjqo