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Looking up Snow Hill from Summer Lane junction late 50s. Such a difference in 2019. Only the two buildings on the right, although modernised, still remain.

Stoney Lane. This 1954 photo holds many memories for me. I was 8yrs old then and lived just down from these shops in Leamington Rd. You can just make out a barber's pole behind the lampost - it's where I went for my hair cut. While in there waiting my turn, I was often puzzled by the barber...

The junction of Alma St & Inkerman St in 1960 I took this photo below in 2013. The building on the extreme right still stands. I drove along here on Wednesday and it still looks more or less the same as 2013.

Golden Hillock Rd at the junction of Bolton Rd looking towards Coventry Rd. Broad St with the Crown Inn building still standing.

When I was a youngster In 1955 I was living in Leamington Rd, Sparkbrook. I had a wonderful choice of cinemas in the area, Olympia, Carlton, Imperial, Piccadilly, Waldorf, Moseley Picture House & the Alhambra were all within walking distance. So, looking through the cinema listings on the inside...

Talking about the stupidity of youth, I once hacksawed a golf ball in a vice to see what was inside it. I soon found out when I was sprayed in a white sticky liquid.

I remember using two bolts either side of a nut with a cap in between. Then after tying a handkerchief to the assembly, throwing it in the air and waiting for it to land with a bang.

The photo Lyn posted on #1 is one I haven't seen before. I too remember buying those liquorice sticks (we called them "Spanish Sticks"). Apologies if this photo is somewhere else on the Birmingham History website. There is another photo showing Mrs Herbert's shop on the corner of Whitehead...

My money's on it being a fanny Barnett (Francis Barnett). You can just about see the FB logo on the magneto cover. Found this photo of a 1929 Model 18 172cc which has a few differences to the photo but, not enough to dissuade me. Incidentally, my first motorbike which I bought in 1962 was a 1957...

My wife says there was a haberdashery called "Sheila's" next door to Burlington Hall. This may have been the shop Lyn was referring to. Just up from Whitehead Rd was Davis's clothes shop which was three shops joined together. Each shop section had wooden steps between them.

Further to my previous post, here is a photo of Park Lane taken around 1935/6. The Orient poster shows "Dr Socrates" starring Paul Muni ( shown on Mon, Tues, Wed ) and "Grand Exit" starring Edmund Lowe ( shown on Thurs, Fri, Sat ).

I may be wrong but, I don't think the rear of Burlington Hall was on Park Lane. It's true that Park Lane is behind Burlington Hall but, the hall itself is not in that photo. Perhaps there may have been a back entry somewhere but look at this photo to see what I'm saying.

Just in time for us Baby boomers (I was born in 1946) to start paying.

Hi William, there is a you tube site that does credit Michael Holliday with these adverts but, most websites credit them to Bing Crosby. Their voices were very similar but, I believe it to be Bing.

"......keep going well, keep going Shell, you can be sure of Shell". Who remembers Bing Crosby singing that TV ditty in the early 60s? If you don't, it's on YouTube.

"Thank you for watching Talking Pictures TV". I always wait for the chap to say that after watching an old b/w British film. Sort of makes me feel appreciated.

I saw Summer Holiday at the ABC Forum in New St. I saw it from the Gallery. I'm sure many of the members remember those seats. You didn't look up to the screen, you looked at it just above your knees.

I'm sorry to hear this news. My condolences to Alan's Family.

In the early 1960s I regularly cycled from Aston to Drayton Manor Park to fish for pike and remember seeing one opposite the Tyburn Pub.

I'm sorry to hear about Astonian. I've never met him but, I always enjoyed reading his posts which had a wealth of his memories of Birmingham and especially Aston.