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I was living in a prefab at Fairlea Crescent in Kings Norton in 1953, somehow they got hold of a rather large marquee for the street party and it was put up on a large area of grass and we were all in there. Everyone in the crescent contributed something in the way of chairs, tables, food etc...

From Elizabeth becoming queen on the death of George VI in February 1952 it took 16 months until the coronation in 1953

Here is another machine plate, this one also has the full Birmingham address

Unfortunately nothing much changes for the better as far as buildings in Birmingham are concerned

I came across another mention of the factory on this machine plate

The claims for this very early sound equipment were rather exaggerated, but back then you could get away with it. People would still have been amazed as the talking picture show had arrived and did away with the man and his piano. It's basically a record player attempting to keep track of the...

One of my favourite channels is Talking pictures TV, as from today on Freeview channel 82 they have the red button for a load films etc! I think only BBC currently have the red button. Providing your TV is connected to the internet the red button brings up loads of Talking pictures films etc...

The direct link works fine

I worked for shopfitters G.W.Stokes that fitted and decorated their shops during the 1960's and also their residencies. I remember Bernard Zissman more than his dad. I think I recall Bernard lived in the Harborne area, possibly Somerset road and we decorated it throughout inside and out.

some bits and pieces ended up at the Millennium point Think tank where you pay £14 to look at them, I was fascinated by the collection of guns in the original museum and made a working replica of a 17th century wheelock pistol I saw there but they have all disappeared along with everything else...

I remember as a child in Weoley Caste that there was a Pig bin on Gregory Avenue at the bottom of our grove. Mum used to wrap peelings and scraps in newspaper and send me down to put in the bin. The bin lorry had sliding shutters on both sides and it went slowly along as a man on each side of...

I think the opening ceremony was excellent but they ran out of ideas for the closing and filled it with singers. It started off saying it represents B,ham in the 1950's a time of great change and then showed the actors dressed in baggy clothes,flat caps and cravats etc from much earlier times...

We still have our Amiga 600 up in the loft. We also had a ZX spectrum for our first computing purchase, Our relatives in New Zealand were unable to get a Spectrum for some weird reason which escapes me but we sent them ours when we got the Amiga

I can vividly remember going fishing on the Severn for the first time and hearing the throbbing of a large engine and seeing everyone grabbing their gear and scrambling up the bank. Those tankers were really low in the water and the wash came several feet up the bank leaving a soggy mess.

My dad taught me to drive in the 1960's, he had never taken a test himself as he learned to drive in the RAF so taught me all his bad habit's o_O Taking my first test I must have failed in the first few minutes by using the gears as brakes. Then he did the emergency stop which I did, then he...

in the 1950's I'm sure I used to catch the 22 in Gregory avenue and it terminated in Navigation st

I used to catch the 22 in Weoley castle back in the 1950/60's, fairly sure it went via Selly Oak

It was the current Google Earth satellite image although date shows as 08/04 2015, moving a mile along the B,ham road towards Bromsgrove the image suddenly updates to 2021 near Braces lane. The Lydiate Ash island had ongoing works from way before the lockdown and went on for absolutely ages and...

Hello Stokkie, It's odd but a current Google Earth pic shows hardly any traffic on the M5 even if you zoom in, a few cars here and there waiting to join the island. Those of us who were around in the 1960's and working in Birmingham centre will remember traffic jams everywhere at peak times...

Google Earth photo shows very little, if anything, has changed. I lived in Marlbrook, barely a mile from there from 1967 to 1981 and often travelled down the M5 to the Black country for my work. The two roads bottom right are the Birmingham road from Bromsgrove to Lydiate Ash but the other...