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When I came home from school I used to find small strips of film reel by the side door of the cinema. How old was The Newtown Palace?

Thanks' for that, Lyn. It suddenly occurred to me that I worked at Fine Fare, a supermarket in (Lynton Square?) Perry Barr Shopping Centre where I was a 'trainee manager' (shopping trolley rounder upper). I lasted two weeks! The picture house on the corner of Newtown Row and New John St was...

Apologies if this has been posted before.

I came stumbled across WA Green purely by accident. He was a prolific artist, working mainly in pen and ink. He died in 1984 and his pen and ink drawings are of buildings and landscapes of Birmingham and the Midlands, his work was published in local newspapers and magazines. Here's the link to a...

This photo is a better quality one:

1980s I think: Le Pub was previously The Parisian. Around the mid 1980s it was purchased by Davenport's and renamed 'Cagney's' (Anyone got any photographs of Cagney's?). Granville was previously Westward Ho! Kaleidoscope was previously The Grapes.

I have a sordid confession to make and I feel it time to confess. While I listened to Slade, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath in Bogart's and The Costermonger I carried a dark secret which I can only now divulge...I always had a place in my heart for Glen Campbell....I even saw him in concert at The...

Speaking of Glen Campbell...

There is a Birmingham connection...

Haven't been there for many years now but is it The Mug House at Claines in Worcestershire?

Steve, was your father George Matthews? George was a really nice bloke who worked in the Briton stores and often had me in stitches. Sorry Steve, It was George Rogers I was thinking of. (Is there a way of deleting posts if errors have been made?)

I first went to The Costermonger when I had a 'Saturday Job' at Littlewoods near to the pub in the early '70s. I loved the pub and the music played there (fantastic choice of music on the small juke box and good dj's). It had a small stuffed bear on the bar, an air shuttle game and an electronic...

Wasn't the same road as Bingley Hall but Barbarella's was nearby in Cumberland Street. A lot of bands performed there.

Crikey Lyn, I didn't notice the ladders on the right!

Apologies if this photograph is already on the forum (I have searched the Farm St thread and could not find it) but I think it is worth posting: Villa Street - Farm Street Hockley Birmingham - The White Swan 1964

I can now reveal it was, Ann George. I'm joking, it was actually John Forgeham, who played Jim Baines, who I think was a mechanic in the soap. He was quite an accomplished actor; he was one of Michael Caine's gang in The Italian Job and he was in one of the scariest play's ever shown (it was to...

The Clements Arms has now being renamed 'The Row Tavern'. Although it's only a name change can't help feeling another bit of the old Brum has been disposed of.

My jaw dropped when I saw this photograph on 'The Old Pics of Brum' on Facebook. I've never seen it before and it's astonishing! It was taken during Birmingham's Wings for Victory Week 1943 (Photo: Brumpic on Twitter). Wings For Victory weeks were held across the country beginning in March 1943...

Me too but sometimes that can prove to be a blessing!

Thank you for your kind comments, Lyn! Funny isn't it, you can go through life but memories of certain people and places remain clear as crystal.