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Definitely Piccadilly Arcade. Cyclops Records were at Number 8

A Very late reply !! The Sherwood, actually became The Kasbah before lowering itself to Behans. The Kasbah had a very good clientele and a novel business plan for it's time and indeed area. Bar/Lounge at the front and in the back (Now full of Sports screens) a Indian restaurant with a open...

Old - Original Vinyl albums are better, because they were recorded in Analogue the modern re-issues of those albums have been put through a digitalisation process and thus you might as well buy the CD version for half the price of the 'New' vinyl. Where possible always try to get hold of...

Was that AKA Daddy Long Legs ?

The Blues club sounds like Henry's above The Crown, Sabbath played there when known as Earth.

I once bumped into Tony Iommi outside Curry's superstore on Marshall Lake Road, Solihull. He lived in Dorridge at the time. Very friendly. He also came into Scruffy Murphy's, Dale End, for a Photo and Radio Interview a couple of years ago.

West Midlands Trains have their Head Office at 134 Edmund Street, having re-located from 102 New St. (The building with the outside lift).

Duran Duran - at the Blues ground OMD - at the NEC Simply Red ( Rehearsal On a NEC car park !) David Bowie - Bingley Hall, Stafford (The Cowshed, Not Brum I know, but still in The Midlands). (The Rolling Stones, numerous times but as we all know they haven't played in or near Birmingham since...

Odeon Gigs I can remember going to, The Rolling Stones 1973 Slade Bad Company ( Plant, Page and Bonham came on for 3 encore songs) The Small Faces - 70s reformed Version Motörhead / Girls School Be Bop Deluxe / John Cooper Clarke The Police and a few others that memory fails to recall. Also...

Had the Classic car accident call last year, I asked him which one? "How many you had" he asked , I said 3 " oh Please tell me" he said in a excited voice No, You tell me which one you called me about, a few seconds of silence , then the line went dead. Forgot to mention - I don't drive.

A Guy called Barry and his mate ran a record shop in Oasis market in the late 70s early 80s. They used to get Pic discs, 12", coloured vinyl in fact lots of rare stuff/ imports. Pretty fair prices too.

I can remember the Church Road shop, tho' not the name. Next door or slightly along was a Record shop 50p for Vinyl 7" 1973 and Around £2.99 for a album.Both shops long gone as has most of the road thanks to Tesco!

I remember the Big Top staff Caf, a young lady called Anne worked in there mid 70s

Hi Chris, Is the lady in the Pic called Patricia ? I also remember you were at Acocks Green Cinema/Warwick Bowl?

Thanks Localmike, Fantastic Info and a lot of memories coming back:)

I've never seen any Photos. In fact the only Photo's I've seen of the entire row between Forest and Waterloo Roads have been of Number 1315 Belmont and The Bulls Head Pub.

Thinking a little more about those houses, they probably came down before '72, because I was still at Redhill Junior School and left there in '72.

They were demolished 1972/75 ish, If memory serves the houses were becoming pretty run down, not sure who owned them. Numbers 1289 - 1301 were owned by Mitchell's & Butler's Brewery, and they survived until the 1980s ( around 1983 ish)

Bogarts - 50p for bottle of Newcastle Brown, Outrageous!!!