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Hi everyone, a rather unusual request, and I do hope someone can assist me. I have the original Nechells Gas Lamp number "3", I bought it from Kingsbury Yard in the late fifties. I painted it red & white to match my then house, and when we moved, brought it with me. I am now re-furbishing it...

Back in 1970, when I was driving Midland ReD out of Sutton into City, the route took us into Station Street Bus Station...however....cast your mind back to the road underpass that ran round the Town Hall, on the right, between the Hall of Memory and the Town hall, there was an underground Bus...

Hi, as a youngster of about 10 or 11 I used to spend a lot of time mooching around the city centre, back in those days, you could, without fear. I vividly remember the polished brass sign on an entrance to an office block just of Cathedral Square, maybe Bennettes Hill: "PARAMOUNT Films inc", and...

Hi. As a very young lad, I would get off the number 50 bus from city, at Glenavon Road, Kings Heath. My Grandad had built a wooden house on the grass bank on the right hand side as you walked from the main road. I desperately want to see IF any pictures of Glenavon Road back then exsist? Many...

Hi! Anyone remember sticks of LIQUORICE ROOT, that we chewed for ages, until the juice was all gone? Plus, did anyone pick up up chunks of what we called "Chewin Tar", from of the roadside, when the men were laying fresh tarmac? Or.....was it just me?

Hi, does anyone have any record of the football club called "Handsworth Wednesday" FC ? My Dad played for them in the 1930's I believe. Are they still going? Any information at all would help. Many thanks. Gerry.