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You're right Lyn, it is Six Ways

That photo posted #225 looks like the frontage when I went there in 1963. The main gates were then situated as shown opposite the middle section but, around 1965 they moved the gates down to the end just before the canal. There is is a photo somewhere purporting to be taken in 1959 which shows...

From our Ted & Family to yours. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2023 to all members of the Forum.

Burley's in Whitehead Street, Aston, my local garage in the 60s. I'm guessing that the photo is from mid 50s. Filled all my motorbikes and cars there until it closed in 1967 due to re-development. The proposed sign that eventually went up was the Regent logo.

Do you think that man & his dog are walking down what we now know as Garrison Lane?

Going by the open sign, it looks like Priory Cycles sold Duckhams motor oil.

I went to the Bull Ring one Sunday morning in 2000 with my (slow focusing) analogue video camera to capture the dismantling of the old market. I went again in 2001 and 2002 then added a news item at the end to make a complete video. I've now edited it down to 14 minutes.

When I first joined Charles Winn Valves in 1974, it was part of Delta metal. We shared the building in Granville St with Barker & Allen and Delta Marine. When we moved to Warwick St Deritend in 1976, Delta Marine came with us. They left when we were taken over by american company Tyco Valves.

Thank you all for your help. MWS, your map shows me it was No171. Incidently, it also shows 69 Leamington Rd which was where I lived at that time. PJMBURNS, I assume they lived above the shop in 1954 but not sure for how long they were there. The electoral roll you posted made me smile because I...

I've tried all ways online to find a street map or Kelly's directory referring to the chip shop on Stoney Lane Sparkbrook in 1954. Looking at Google Earth I think the house number would have been around No 137 - 141. My Aunt Bessie (Betty) Middleham ran it then for a while with Uncle Frank. I...

Hi oldMohawk, love that first photo however, I thought that the 'now' photo didn't quite match (the road has an incline which the 'then' photo doesn't have. I think the original is on the corner of Nursery Rd but the opposite corner and you can just see the back of the billboards on the ariel...

I too had a Commodore 64 and later bought an Amiga 500+ which is still in the attic somewhere.

I remember taking my test to drive a bus. Amongst the many questions I was asked, the examiner asked me which vehicles were not allowed on a motorway. In my nervousness, one of the vehicles I said was articulated vehicles but in my mind I had said agricultural vehicles. It was only when he asked...

What a spectacular opening ceremony last night. Proud to say my Son and Son-in-Law were both volunteers. Over the next week I must go 'up town' to see that brilliant Brummie bull.

I too thought that it was a traffic light control box but then thought it looked like the guy on the left looks like he's moving it with a sack truck. Trouble is, there doesn't seem to be any wheels. Whatever it is, it seems to stand on feet which maybe suggests it is movable. I also think that...

Our re-enactor group were asked to to a dispersal display at Kemble in 2013. While we were there we got to look around inside the BBmf Lancaster and I took this video.

I was at the Walsall Aboretum car show today and was delighted to see the Lancaster flying over. I've seen it lots of times at 1940s events but never at a car show. It was travelling in a north-westerly direction so was probably returning home to RAF Coningsby from somewhere.

Whenever I went to my local chip shop I had a choice of which pie to buy. Telfers had two pies, small for 9d and large for 11d. If I could afford it I would buy the Fleur-de-Lys for 1/1d. Enjoyable as it was, I recall that I always seemed to only have enough to buy the large Telfer pie.

I used to get my bicycle parts from Thomas's.

In the absence of any photos available, the reason I originally made these images is to show my children & grandchildren where we used to live. The far house (next to the factory) was No9 where my wife lived before we were married. After we were married we lived in the front room of that house...