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Hi The photo from Yardley was interesting little more than country lane. When I moved to Great Barr in 1951 ish the Brooklin farm was still a farm, now the site of the Brooklin Technical College, the Aldridge Rd. and Beacon Rd. were still country lanes for a lot of their length as was the...

Hi That was before the Walsall Rd was a duel carriageway all the way into Perry Barr it had wide grass verges either side and the Queslet Rd was little more than a lane with the Old Horns was an old coaching house. I watched the whole area develop as I grew up. I remember the cinema with the...

Hi Reading back through the thread reminded me I very occasionally had to go to "Burning Out". A section away from the main works close to the canal, where the ammunition was tested, there were two Bren Guns mounted on stands on concrete blocks, I would stand and watch for some time with the...

Hi Many a saturday afternoon I was dragged round the fish market by my parents, we would have a paper carrier bags with the weeks veg and sometimes a bag of whelks, in their shells, sometimes a crab and a paper bag of winkles for me. There was an old woman on the steps outside selling carrier...

Hi The time period was 1960ish When Hydes went under as so many radio and TV shops did around 1961/63 I moved to Ryland GaragesThey bought even more from Gittings notably lots of CAV / Simms fuse and control boxes. Big grey dicast boxes that the driver controled the lights from and started the...

Hi My second job after leaving school was at Hyde's Garage Bath Row. I worked in the attached radio and TV shop. We also did all the Vehicle electrical work and as I was too young to drive I used to have to walk past Davenport's to A.T. Gitting's in Irving Street for spares dynamos, starters...

Hi As an addition to the above in the 40 I was living in Brougham St Lozells/Hockley and all the deliveries were horse drawn. Scrivans the bakers, Purity Bread another bakers, the milk man who's horse knew the round the milkman would load a little crate up with 12 bottle and off he would go...

Hi In the 50s there was a Co Op dairy on Kingstanding Road that used horse drawn vehicles ... Farther up the road was a Midland Counties Dairy that used electric milk floats. It had snowed quite heavily and the Midland Counties electric vehicls .struggled in the condidtions. Meawhile the Co Op...

Hi My first job when I left school in 1958 was in the Offices in the Rod Mill copper was smelted from scrap copper and some was turned into brass by adding I think it was zink and silicon. It then went into the mill itself where it was extruded into brazing rods, wind screen surrounds and...

Hi Richard Ahh! But many of the bomb sites gave birth to pop bottles. 2d and cheeky kids did well for scrounging from building sites the builders couldn't be bothered taking them back. One day we found a soda syphon 5 shillings. That led to a parental Spanish Inquisition. Brian

Hi Richard The closest we came to a nasty experience was when a flight of stairs became a lift.... 4 of us going up and the joist failed and the staircase dropped. Finding furniture in the houses was exciting as well, daring each other to open a wardrobe in case what ever could be imagined by a...

Hi A point I remember was about half way down both streets was an entry between two houses it went to the bottom of the gardens then had a bit of a dog leg and down the side of the gardens in Villa St and came out again in into Villa St. just up from a little shop that sold home made Vimto...

Hi Lyn Yes I lived at 56 Brougham St, My imediate circle of friends was Irene Butler we were always together then John Beal, Rose (Mickie) leader, a lad who lived over the road next to the convent school whose name escapes me Angela Wooton, Laucen Bulevant he lived right at the Wills St. end...

Hi In your last photograph the white building in the middle of the view back in the 40s was a plating and polishing shop, I don't remember if they did the pressings there as well, the stillages of scrap outside the door next to the grocery shop was normally full of cigarette cases and metal...

Hi Thanks for a big memory jog. I lived in Brougham St in the 40s and early 50s and I was dragged along Lozells Rd every Saturday for the weekly shop, the only redeeming factor was the look round Woolworth's and occasionally go back home clutching a little toy. Does anyone remember the...

Hi Thank you for the correction at my age it's an achievement to remember ther bank. I do remember the statue I think over the years they have been adorned with various decorations road cones on head seems to spring to mind. I now live in Denbigh North Wales and a son of Denbigh is H. M...

Hi Another thimg that sprung to mind was thre UV black light tubes over the front of the stage when they swittched those on and the house lights out It was almost like having xray vision for all the young ladies with white underwear. Brian

Hi I was with one of the groups that regularly played at the Rum Runner. Not as a musician I was the sound engineer and roadie because I built a lot of the equipment we used. We didn't really have a name but were known as big Al's group. Alan Johnson all 6ft 4 of him.What I remember because of...

Hi About 1962/63 I worked at the radioi and TV shop attached to Hydes garage on the corner of Bath Row and Bishopsgate St. When it closed I moved to Ryland Garage at the bottom of Ryland St. Unless it was pouring with rain I walked the length of Broad St. Just round the corner from Ryland St...

Hi I want to make a correction the Angel Pub was at the top of Villa St I can't remember the name of the one at the bottom... Photo is interesting looks very much how I remember it. Thanks