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[ Hi Chris - Small world eh? Coincidence that my Frank Martin was lodging with your 2 x Gt.Grandfather, Edward Jones, in Wales in 1911. Since my first post I have found out quite a lot about Frank although I don't know how he came to be playing football in Wales!! By 1915 he had enlisted in...

Wally - we used to call ourselves the "Town Crowd" in those days, and yes, we might well have crossed paths at various times! Fun days!

Hi Wally - I used to go to the Sombrero all the time, and the club was the Key Club upstairs although I never went in myself. And was at the Locarno most Saturday nights and the Tudor Club upstairs there. Like you say, it was safe at night in those days! Judy

My auntie, Evelyn Hanson, who was very glamorous worked on the Cosmetics counter before the war, leaving to do War work. I loved Lewis's but getting stuck in the lifts as a child has given me a phobia of lifts to this day. There were two lifts with glass sides going up in the same shaft. I...

My Mom, would often say when asked where she'd bee "There and back to see how far it is"!! Also if you were staring at anyone "Who are you looking at, the cat's mother" Judy

Someone else said the same thing Viv. I might write in and see what happens! Judy

I'd certainly love to see inside it when it opens Lyn. Must try and get up to Brum when it does. Judy

Thanks for the link Viv. Great to see the old place restored, and to see my auntie, Evelyn Hanson, who was head receptionist in the 1949 photo in the video (sitting on the left in the Reception) Judy

My husband (a Londoner) always says that. Think it's Cockney rhyming slang - Taters in the mold

Here's my club card for the Americana, and Studio One (jazz) at the Golden Cross in 1959! Those were the days!

The photo that Phil put on just was taken by a friend of mine who was also a regular at the Nineveh. He became a teacher at Rookery Road School later on. I learned to dance there; having ballroom lessons once a week, and then going to the Saturday night dances where most of my friends went...

When my mother was a girl in the 1920's her ambition was to play the piano in a cinema to the silent films! She never got to do this though! Judy

At the Regal in Handsworth, in the intermission, we also got the organ rising up from the floor with the organist playing music for about 10/15 minutes!

When at school at Soho College on Soho Hill, in the 1950s, I used to catch the 16 from Hamstead Road ( just round the corner from the Roebuck Pub) every Friday to go to play hockey at the sports field, which might have belonged to Dennisons Watch Case Co. Think it was in Perry Barr.

It does seem a bit bright Viv! But it must have been thoroughly research by Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery I guess! When I lived there it was a dark lino or lino tiled floor. I remember my sister used to get into trouble for roller skating on it!

It was already operating as a hotel when my grandparents bought it in the late 1920s Rosary Boy. Prior to that it had been a girls' school. Here's a price list from 1945! As to what year I was shown round by Val Loggie of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, I can't really remember but it...

I used to play in all those rooms when I grew up at Soho in the 40s/50s when it was a hotel! My sister and I used to slide across the polished entrance hall floor (which was a lot different to the photo!) and there were stuffed stags heads on the walls! The door at the back of the entrance...

T Thank you Phil. I had no idea that this was the case, I was thinking it was very near St Marys Church but didn't think of the Endwood. I remember the Endwood as I grew up in Handsworth, but always thought this was in Hamstead Road. Having looked again since reading your reply I see the...