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I thought No.6 was Charles Hawtrey too Dave. And after your comment about the Peaky Blinders Carolina, and Phil's reply that 'he' would be upset I definitely thought it was a man dressed as a woman. And well done to you too! Judy

7 - Robin Nedwell

2 - Sir Francis Galton

4 - James Watt 9 - Tony Hancock

Love that fabulous photo Lady P! That certainly is one to treasure.

Thanks Mike. That was a fascinating insight into the old New Street, which would have been how some of our ancestors would have known it. Judy

I can't recall a Tony Grimshaw, but I do recognise your cousin Pat seated on the girls lap in the middle of the front row. My own sister was just a bit further along that row on the left sitting on the lap of the older girl with a party hat on. My best friend Isabelle Instone is the first...

I know I've posted this photo of the 1945 V.E. Day Party in Vicarage Road before, but it shows your Mom and Nan in it, and I do remember them very well when I was growing up. We kids used to play in Vicarage Road all the time. Handsworth was so lovely in those days. I'm the little girl in...

Sorry Paul, I'd be too young to remember that and I never heard it spoken of. I know the same happened when my Mom was taking me on a bus to see my granddad when I was a baby and a lone plane flew low gunning along Digbeth. My Mom threw herself over me to protect me. I don't know if anyone...

Oh Katrina what memories! My Dad used to bring back crab claws from the market too. Loved them. Haven't had one for years now :-( Judy

Thank you Phil. Thanks for putting a name to this restaurant. It was my first experience of Chinese food. I know it was near The Tatler Cinema (Electric later). The name of Bocker & Bettridge dancing rings a bell with me. Think they were a well known dance school of the day but I never...

No idea Carolina. Just know that it was in Station Street and the year would be 1961!

Maypolebaz - Could this Chinese Restaurant be the same one I am talking about in Station Street? Judy

The first Chinese restaurant I ever went to was in Station Street, near The Tatler. I can't remember the name of it but I can remember going over the footbridge at New Street Station and coming out almost opposite the restaurant. First time I went must have been about 1961. We didn't know...

Maggie - My auntie died some years ago now so unfortunately I can't ask her whether she knew your parents or not.

Maggie - Your mother probably would have known my Auntie, Evelyn Hanson, who was Head Receptionist at the Grand for many years. I'm not sure when she first went there to work but I know she was there in the 40's. She lived in at the hotel. Judy

Agreed Phil. Pretty weird. Never saw any of those things when I stood waiting for a bus there. Wonder whey they were there??

Maurice - I've just looked on Street View and it says that the building on the corner of Soho/Rose Hill Road is the Soho Centre for Excellence, Birmingham Civic Association. I'm still no wiser!! Judy

Wish I knew Maurice. I haven't been to Handsworth for over 20 years. Its nothing I recognise. Judy

Thanks Phil for the photo of Soho Road/Rosehill Road. You really jogged my memory with the old one. I used to catch the bus into town at that bus stop regularly when growing up in the 40s/50s it would have been the 70, 72, 74 or 75 bus, and the house behind the bus stop was my dentists...