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Thank you all for the comments. I should have added that my Dad was a barman at the Waggon & Horses in 1959. I spent many a Saturday afternoon in the snug after it had closed waiting for my Dad to finish. Most times, enjoying a Monk's pork pie and a glass of pop.

As I wrote last year, when I uploaded the Six Ways video, I've made some panoramic image videos of Aston using public domain photos. I did this for my kids & Grandkids to see what it was like for me growing up. This one of "Newtown Row" shops in High St was a bit trickier. Using research and...

John, you seem to be using the same post on two different threads. I answered your question yesterday on the Guilford St Lozells thread

Hi John, I left in March 1961 so, the only one in your photo I recognise is Mr Williams on the left. I couldn't help but notice the two other teachers though. Are they twins or do they just bear a lot of similarities?

In the mid 50s I had a real tin helmet and an real army belt. Can't remember who gave them to me but, with my plastic machine gun, I was always fighting "the jerries" with my pals. These days I am a 1940s re-enactor but I don't engage the enemy any more.

My son lives in Viceroy Close where each block has a carving of a face over the entrance. This block isn't the one he lives in, but I must take a photo next time I visit.

I have great memories of being at BCLM over the past few years. On one of the 1940s weekends, I was "the Proprietor" of this shop. The photo of King George VI admiring my broom has a special place in my scrapbook.

I'm pretty certain there were many of them around, but the only milk vending I ever saw & used was identical to this one outside a shop next to the Beaufort Arms pub in Hamstead around 1958. That lad could have been me, but obviously it's not.

Reading someone mention a drinking fountain on another thread, I wondered if the one we used on Coleshill Rd was still there. It is, but I doubt it still works. Me & my mate used it as a halfway point as we cycled on our fishing trips to Coleshill back in 1960. Apologies if this photo has been...

I'm hoping that members will find this interesting. A couple of years ago I decided to make a DVD photographic record of Aston for my kids to see where we lived back then. Along with photos, I made a video image of Whitehead St which I have already posted to the Forum. That made me think that...

I think that's the same chap just got off the bus who was just about to get on the bus on post 2,197.

Adderley Road junction today.

Who'd have known then that this would look a similar sight (apart from the uniforms) in our shopping areas 60 years on.

Thank you all for your comments. I'll try using another browser for our forum website to begin with and see how it pans out. I'll also look into ad blockers. I now see that there is a way around this annoying privacy & transparency pop up.

I've been a member of this wonderful Forum for 10 years now but I'm afraid that this website (for me), has become a chore to get in to and I don't know how long I can continue doing what I've just had to do. I've just spent about 20 minutes unticking 227 legitimate interest boxes from a list of...

Have I got a rogue virus on my laptop or does this happen to all our members? Every time I come to the Birmingham History Forum, I get a pop up privacy & transparency notice. After initially pressing the "continue with recommended cookies" button when it first appeared, I found that after a few...

I hope I've put this on the correct thread (general discussion). Every time I've logged on over past few weeks, I get a cookie preference pop up. I've been pressing the accept button but, it shows up again the next time. Is this now the norm?

Sorry, I can't help. I think 142 would have been somewhere around Salisbury Rd or Hatfield Rd. I'm guessing the photo on #743 shows houses opposite these roads.

I was sorry to miss the meet-up. I went the last time we had one but I was away over this Easter weekend. Hope you can organise another one sometime this year.

I agree with MWS on post #3058 that it is St Matthew's church in Duddeston/Nechells. My wife's parents were married there in 1937. This Google Earth image from today is from the closest position to the original post.