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Eddie, me and my friends used to go regularly to the Jazz Club (Studio 1) at the Golden Cross in Aston around 1958/59. I wonder if The Johnnhy Beck Six, and you, would have been playing at the time? We also went to the Cha Cha Club (Americano) which was held there on other nights. Went there...

Welcome back Wendy :encouragement: We all appreciate the work you have done in the past for the forum.

I also used to go the Firebird Jazz Club in Carrs Lane, in the early 60s, devonjim, but I can't say I remember a 'green' near it. It was all built up around that area. Judy

Very sad to hear about the death of Jackie Trent. I lived for a couple of years in Blackpool in the late 50s/early 60s. My family had a flat in a block on the sea front and in the flat above lived Alyn Ainsworth who was conductor of the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra. Jackie and her husband...

Aah! I love Earl Bostic playing Flamingo. Have it on CD now.

Yes Mike, Ken Jones was the manager of Cinema Accessories when I worked there. I was only there a few months as my family moved out of Brum for a couple of years. I got the job through my Dad who had been Area Manager for the Clifton Circuit, but was based at the Clifton on Walsall Road in...

I worked for Sidney Clift in the late 50s. I worked at Cinema Accessories Ltd in Corporation Street in the Film Booking Dept. We did all the admin and for the Clifton Cinema Group.

Alan, I remember well the German prisoners of War mending the pavements in Soho Avenue, Handsworth, when I was a little girl. I used to go and talk to them and take them biscuits, which I think they enjoyed. They were always very friendly as I remember. Thinking about it, I wonder if my...

I remember the lights coming back on after the War too. Dad took us children up to town from Handsworth to see the Neon Lights and signs lit up on the shops - something we'd never seen before. It was like fairyland to us. Just magical.

I never spent any night in an air raid shelter Maurice. As I said it was either in the cellars of The Clifton Cinema, or when we moved to Handsworth in 1942, it was in the cellars of Soho House. However, my friends had both Morrison and Anderson Shelters, and I can remember playing in these...

Oh yes, the low machine gunning along the streets definitely did happen. My Mom told me that she was on a bus taking me to visit my Grandad in Billesley. I was only a baby so this would be around 1940/41. The bus was going through Digbeth when a German plan flew low, machine gunning along...

Very interesting reading Old Mohawk. Brings it home to you how strong our parents were living through all that, and keeping us kids safe. We lived on Walsall Road (on the line of the radio beam as shown) at the time, as my Dad was Manager of the Clifton Cinema, and we lived across the road...

It was Phil's suggestion in the first place Carolina!

Not got an answer as to where on Hagley Road Phil's photo was taken, but here is another which looks like the same building taken from the opposite direction. (From Suburban Birmingham). I think it could be the Plough & Harrow too.

Lovely peaceful photo Phil. Quite different to nowadays! I'd love to know whereabouts on Hagley Road it was, but like you said it could be anywhere along that road. Even when I used to go regularly along that road in the 60s there were lots of lovely old buildings there. Judy

Thanks for dating the map Mike. Judy

Does anyone have a photo of Summer Row which was on Summer Road, which ran off Soho Road in Handsworth back in the 1860-1880s? The road no longer exists and it has been replaced by Ivy Road - the Ivy House pub being on the corner (itself now replaced by an Indian restaurant). Here is a map...

Good to see another photo of Parliament Street Lyn. I am now building up a picture of where my 2 x gt.grandmother lived. Judy

Absolutely brilliant Mike. Thanks so much. Gives me a bit more meat on my family history. Now I just have to find out why she moved there from 2 x Ct 27 Clifton Road where she'd lived for ages! Yes, Lyn - how lucky is that? This Forum comes up trumps every time! Judy

Thanks Aston Lad - you are a star! I just wanted to visualise the house and now I have done. Judy