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Think you are right Phil. I would never have known it by the Victory Café photo, and when I showed it to my sister she felt the same. Although there was a shop at the front of the property which I always thought was a tailors or menswear shop. There was no name above the door to the Bermuda...

Thanks for the link Phil. I can't argue with the fact that the Victory Café is mentioned in the newspaper article. I just don't remember the cafe frontage, mind you the Club was hidden away from the public and only for selected clientele! so I wonder if a different type of shop front was set...

Phil, I never heard of an upstairs to the club. Although its possible the upstairs was used for storage/office space of some kind. When I went to the Bermuda (1958/59) the club was solely on the ground floor. In fact looking at your photo of the Victory Café at 71.1/2, to the left of the photo...

The Bermuda Club was indeed behind another shop, hence the 73 1/2 I guess. I don't remember it being at the side of a café but thought it was behind a Tailor's Shop in the late 50s. Still it was a long time ago. This was Eddie Fewtrell's first club. The entrance was at a door at the side of...

This is for Williamstreeter! Bermuda Club card from late 50s.

Thank you Viv for those very interesting articles. I've not been on the forum lately so have just caught up! I know when my family had Soho, the two houses in Vicarage Road (Nos. 5 and 7) were accessed from the rear of the house. One was used as an annexe for hotel guests and the other was...

Hello Maurice I remember my first Chinese experience as it wasn't a good one! I'd just been drinking in Yates Wine Lodge with my boyfriend and we decided to try Leing Name, neither of us having eaten Chinese before. Not knowing what to order, we ordered the first thing on the menu. When...

Hello Maurice. Hope you are keeping well. Sorry can't help with the name of any coffee bar in Station Street. I do remember the Chinese restaurant that Phil mentioned as I went there once - the first time I'd eaten Chinese food - and it would have been about 1961/62. The coffee bars that I...

My Dad used to take me to The Tatler sometimes when we were in town. No televisions in those days so it was a treat to see the cartoons and he enjoyed the newsreel. We also went to the News Theatre in High Street at times. Judy

Lovely photo Enzo! None of the names mean anything to me now I'm afraid, but it was a very long time ago since I was there! It would have been the mid 40s when I left I guess. My sister was there a bit later than me but she would have also left HKPS by 1949/50. She doesn't remember a lower...

The traffic used to go round the Town Hall well into the 1960s Viv. My bus stop was outside the Museum & Art Gallery which was by the last car on the right hand side.

My father was the manager of the Clifton Cinema on Walsall Road at the start of the war. We lived in a house opposite. When there was an air raid we used to all go over to the cinema and shelter in the cellars. After a while my mother got fed up with doing this and it was her opinion that...

Thanks Mike :)

My mother went to St James's Sunday School when she lived in Clifton Road. She had a book given to her in 1922 as a Special Prize. The book was Good Wives by Louisa M Alcott which I still have. Sorry the photo is sideways - I can't change it!

Lovely photos of St James's Lyn. My Mom went to Sunday School there and I still have a book given to her as a prize. I will try and take a copy and post it.

Really lovely photos JLB. I can see Dunn's there on the corner of Bull Street, and Barrows Stores on the right

Thank you for those sad photos Lyn. The Beehive (as it used to be) was my Dad's local and part of my growing up as it was at the bottom of my road (Soho Avenue) and opposite my school (Soho College). I never saw Rusty Lee's restaurant as we left Handsworth in 1956, but I did have a friend who...

Just seen your Post #98 which seemed to have passed me by. What a very sad photo that is. The house is next door to my old school, Soho College, which was always so pristine all those years ago (opposite Dennisons). My doctor was a couple of doors away on the corner of Soho Hill/St Michaels...

Here's my membership card for Ronnie Scott's Club in 1961, Mo

Fine thank you Mo, glad you two are as well. You brought back memories of Studio One at the Aston Cross with your post!