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My wife was a dancer for three years at the Alexandra theatre, she has just been sorting through boxes of photo's from all of her career. She trained in ballet and got top grades in teaching but started off as a redcoat at Butlins hotels in Margate, then appeared in the Cathy Kirby & Billy...

My father worked for BR parcels starting around 1933. He used to tell me about some of the horses based at Curzon Street, some of them were huge and very bad tempered, probably because they were mistreated so they would kick & bite at every opportunity. Some horses would only behave with certain...

I wonder if the little boy is also a family member?

During school holidays in the 1950's I used to sometimes go with dad on his British rail parcels delivery round, his round included the Longbridge area and we often called in at Kalamazoo. I used to go in with him and seeing a small kid they used to give me a big pile of printed paper to take...

Those last photo's are definitely Jesse Hills workshop. the 5th generation are still working there in the original building in Stirchley

Seems they were very busy looking at all those titles, a huge and varied variety of artists as well Another link here shows a photo of Steve Brett & the Mavericks, another midlands group, During the early to late 1960s, large numbers of R&B soul, garage, pop, and psychedelic beat bands recorded...

Does anyone remember Hollick & Taylor recording studio? 16, Grosvenor Road B,ham B20 3NP ? I have an old LP of the St Christopher Steel Band dated 1977 and wondered if any of the group are still around, their seven names are signed on the front cover. They appeared on New faces and then...

There were several Westhill Colleges around the area, if you Google it it shows at least 4 different old buildings. The one I remember was on the Bristol Road by the Yatching pool, us kids used to sneak into the grounds at night

I think it's definitely was there, see the Google image, possibly the same building now has the upper window bricked up and painted white, it was the same back then and 'Antique guns' sign written in large letters which you could read from right down the road, otherwise it could only have been...

Steve, it could well have been, even if not it's likely that the gun shop would have bought stock from there. I never actually went to any of Wellers auctions but bought a couple of guns from a regular auction held at Hartlebury village hall. There is an arms and armour fair held at the...

Hello John, I'm 75 next month so yes, those were happy days for sure, everything seems so sanitised and restricted now. Second hand shops were everywhere back in the 60's and I used to travel around B,ham and the black country for my job so used to scout out all the junk shops! I was always...

Here is a current view of the Avenue in Rubery

One of our relatives (John Newey) researched our Newey family tree many years ago, long before the internet made it easier, unfortunately we lost contact with him in the 1980's but he managed to get quite a way back as I recall

I'm a member of the Newey clan, Grandfather Edgar Newey, my late father- Arthur Alfred , all born in Bham but I have no idea if any are linked to the other names on this thread

I use Photoscape which is free, it's easy to use and has all the usual edit functions such as adding text, numerous tools, paint brush, clone stamp etc http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php as a coin collector being able to crop a round image is very useful for me

My dad worked on the Lancasters, I posted on this thread (No 6# in 2010), dad was 90 then but died aged 96. In the last couple of years he started telling me about some of his wartime escapades. Having joined the RAF aged 18 he was training to be an aircraft electrician. When planes came in...

Is there a certainty that it's Bristol Road in Birmingham and not one of the numerous others in towns & cities?

Google Earth shows 127 Bristol Road is now all modern housing in 'Highgate' an area close to the city centre so presumably the area was cleared some time in the recent past. I remember the apartments in Viceroy close were there in the 1960's Hopefully someone may have old photo's

I remember the horror of school dentists, you were all lined up in the school hall and one by one had your teeth quickly looked at, then you were sent either to a queue to the left or the right to give your name to the nurse or just sent out if your teeth were o.k. Most kids joined the long...

Excellent, I wonder how many Royal Enfields they produced there, it would have been in the 1960's