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Just found this photo of Hotel Victoria Cross on the Birmingham Forum which was posted by our late friend Phil in Oct 2014. This view along William St looks like it was taken early 70s.

Hi Lyn, just posted the full photo. Barry

This is a really lost pub because I can't find any information on it anywhere. It looks like it was a Mitchells & Butlers pub called the Hotel Victoria Cross and was on the corner of Gower St & William St, Lozells. It shows as P.H on a 1891 map and also a 1917 map but it's not mentioned on a...

Hi Ozbrum, yes, went there every week to window shop and see what was new. Talking of suits I've just remembered Brook Bros on the corner of Lozells St.

Lyn, sorry about the confusion. I was looking through the Lozells Rd thread when I noticed that map you posted showing where Lozells Farm was. I also noticed on the map a word which looked like 'school' in Gower St. Because of the low resolution I couldn't quite make out if it did say 'school'...

Hi Lyn, sorry for going off thread. I can't quite make it out but, does the map say "school" where Gower St is? This map is 2 years before the proper school was established and I'm sure this was the temporary building.

Around 1962 I remember a shop called something like M & J which sold fashion clothes for us dedicated followers of fashion. Bought my shortie raincoat from there. It was situated in one of the shops opposite Hartington Rd.

Hi Lyn, thanks for that information. That does suggest that the building on Gower St probably was the first building built. Because it was situated next to the church, I always thought that the building on Lozells Road was built first.

In recent years I've often wondered why my school was called Gower St School when only a small part of it was actually in Gower St. The block we used for woodwork,metalwork & pottery was on Lozells Rd between the Police station & St Pauls church. The block (which still stands today) that had the...

Hi Steve, yes, we may well have encountered each other during that time. More so if you went to the cafe on the corner of Price St & Loveday St. I was always in there playing the jukebox. I reckon I played "Tell Laura I Love Her" so many times I could have bought the record.

Seeing the name Cora Watkins running pubs makes me think that she might be the Watkins family I lived with at 136 Victoria Road in 1958. She was German and her husband was Bill Watkins. They had two sons but I can't remember their names. A few years later I heard that she was running a pub in...

The new development near the current entrance (where the Iron House was ) will be the new visitor centre. Here are two videos they have put out.

Looks like this building next to the Hall of Memory.

I was at the BCLM 1940s event last week and took a few photos of the proposed 40s,50s,60s street site while I was there. The Fairground has gone and there are several footings up at the Institute end. Hope to see further progress in the coming months.

Post #38. I remember that day. We had moved from Granville St to Warwick St Bordesley the year before. We always called the Managing Director Bill Maddocks.

Does anyone know where this arial photo of Lozells originated? I would like to purchase a copy. I have looked on the Britain From Above website but cannot find this photo. I have also noticed that Birchfield Road (off Six Ways ) is labelled incorrectly as Handsworth Wood Road.

BCLM chips are great and there are nice chips around today but without that particular taste of nostalgia.

brummie-lad, I posted this photo a few months ago on the Park Lane-Aston thread #262. It was made merging two familiar photos. Unfortunately, although using real photos, I could only make a representation of the chip shop owing to the Give way sign obscuring it on the original photo.

Loved those chips. They had a particular flavour, something to do with the fat they used I suppose. Still got a memory of the newspapers at the back with which they wrapped the chips.

Another view of The Star in the early 70s. The building on the opposite corner of Feltham Road used to be The Bull's Head Inn. Now the building is used as a Mosque.