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If that's David Cameron then that could be Harold Wilson striding towards him from the right.

It was known as "waiting to peg the clock". I was a bus driver 1970-73 and well remember waiting like this at the terminus. Actually, that clock, outside the Arden Oak pub together with the Cranes Park Rd clock were the clocks I "pegged" myself when I drove on the 58 & 60 route out of Coventry...

I can't post photos because my page asks for the URL reference and I cannot find any mention of URL in the properties. I use Windows 10 and use Adobe Photoshop to resize my photos.

Just up on the left hand side of Bath St on the corner of Shadwell St was where I started my part time job at Rowland Keen in the gun trade in 1960. They moved a few months later to Lincoln Jefferies shop in Steelhouse Lane because of the impending development of Snow Hill/Queensway Circle. I...

What a wonderful looking building!

Hi Lyn, just been looking through your photos on this thread. They are marvellous! Can I just say that the #19 photo was taken from Whitehead Street looking across High Street to Whitehead Road as you rightly say. You may remember how much of a stickler I am about the Whitehead Street thread as...

The lamp on the right of the photo was also a pub. Would I be correct in thinking it was The Greenaway?

I had an old frame sprayed in metallic green by H.V Powell when I was building up a bike in 1962. Quick release wheels, centre pull brakes and Campagnolia gear change which was the "Bees knees" at that time.Does anyone remember Cliff Peter's shop on the corner of Gerrard Street & Wilton Street...

The floor under the Ariel sign was D Section where I worked from 1963 until the BSA closed. The foreman's name was Bill Rushton.

Around 1959 at my school in Gower St, lozells, we had this craze where all us kids seemed to have a little Derringer cap gun keychain. It was the "must have" thing of the month ( or however long that particular craze lasted).

I had a toy in 1955 which was a tube of water about 12 inches high & 3 inches diameter. Inside was a little plastic deep sea diver and on the top was a rubber button/diaphragm so, when you pressed it down, the diver went to the bottom and when released, he came back up. I've never seen another...

Talking with my wife last night about the old area and what we used to get up to, I suddenly remembered the name of the surgery I used to go to from 1959 until 1967. Do any members remember Doctors Firth & Carolyn at the bottom of Wheeler St (where Great King St started). I'm sure that was their...

There is no "gun quarter" anymore because all the little back alley buildings that the gun tradesmen worked in are gone. When I worked part time after school as a kid in 1960, the streets I delivered gun parts to & collected gun parts from were Price Street, Loveday Street, Bath Street, Whittall...

Has it been restored now? As this thread was started in 2011, I feel that I am a bit late in sending this photo from 1965 showing my wife & Bruce the dog.

Enjoyed that website linked above Mikejee. The Woodsetton Toll House in the Black Country Living Museum has a brick "beehive" shape built into the front corner recess to prevent tradesmen who tried to urinate there. I presume it had the same outcome that the tilted metal bars had.

Hi Sylvia, I'm six years late but, a couple of years ago I tried to find a thread but didn't, about people who worked part time from school in the gun trade. Yours is the only reference I've seen that refers to the school lads who ran the errands. Like your Dad, I did the same thing. In 1959 I...

I started a thread on Whitehead Street a couple of years ago looking for any photos of it and now I've just come across this thread which finished 8yrs ago!!!! When my wife & me got married in February 1967, we lived with my in-laws (Mr & Mrs Rogers) who lived at No 9 Whitehead St. I can tell...

Hi Lyn, only 8yrs late but, although I'm sure you did get your photo eventually, I was intrigued by the debate on the Vine Inn which was on the corner of Alma St & Whitehead St. I was reading the thread yesterday after finding the map of this pub which was posted by Mikejee. It was dated 1889 so...

Anyone familiar with Stoney Lane in the 50s? When I lived in Leamington Rd I went to the barber on Stoney Lane (0pposite Wilton Rd). You can see the barber's pole in this photo so, it must have been there some time. He used to have a plank of wood to rest on the arms of the chair so that us kids...