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In the first picture in Dennis's series, the second building on the left was Smallwood's wine and spirit merchants. In the early 1950s, my dad would take me there with him before Christmas to buy a bottle of sherry - the only alcoholic drink ever kept in our house! Smallwood's also features in...

For Christmas, I received two books about buses in and around Birmingham. Both books include some marvellous photos of the City Centre. Almost all the photos are accurately dated and identified. In fact, the books are almost worth buying just for the shots of 'Town'. Both books are by the same...

Bob, all the photos I have are on my website. One of the shots included in Walk 4 is taken looking along Navigation Street towards the Guiness clock, but the clock is in the distance and the air was rather misty. John

Many thanks Stars. Tell me about 'the meet'. Cheers, John

I, too, was taught by David Turner in the 1950s at Handsworth Grammar School. He taught us History - I still have one of my old History exercise books with his comments inscribed in red on my work on 'Henry and the Barons'! Sometimes, Mr Turner would interrupt his lesson and read one of his...

I suppose they do look random, although there must have been some logic to my choice of viewpoints at the time. As far as I recall, I was trying to show as much of each street as possible with as few shots as possible. I was aware when I planned the shots that much of old Brum would be lost in...

Phil, From 1964 to 1970 I was a radiographer - working in the X-ray Dept, and then from 1970 till '74 I worked in the School of Radiography. John

Hello Everyone, I'm John Ball (aka JLB) whose 'Images of Birmingham' webpages you've been talking about. Carolina invited me to join you and make myself known. Thanks Carol. Lyn, I was born and brought up in Winson Green, and worked at Dudley Rd Hospital till 1974 when I moved to Wales. I now...