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In the late 50s/early 60s a friend of mine had a kit for building model houses. Little clay bricks had to be stuck together with a special cement and then the completed building could be soaked in water which allowed the bricks to be pulled apart for reuse. It was incredibly difficult to...

When living in Birmingham in the late 1950s/early 1960s I visited the lido shown in the photo below. As we didn't have a car, I think it must have been inside Birmingham or no further than a bus ride outside the city but I've not found any images on Google that suggest where it might have been...

As a child growing up in Heath Street, Winson Green, and living in a house with no bathroom, in the late 1950s and early 1960s I used to go to a public baths about once a week for a bath (whether I was dirty or not!). Does anyone know if there were public baths in Heath Street itself, or would...

In 1956, aged about 6, I was taken very seriously ill and spent a month in Dudley Road Hospital, two weeks of which were in an oxygen tent with a tracheostomy tube in place. On discharge from hospital, I was then sent to a children's convalescence home for a month. I'm trying to find out more...

I'm not sure which forum this best fits into, but since it was a childhood memory I'll try here! My parents, living in the Winson Green area, had an electric cooker in the 1950s and they had aluminium saucepans which were each stamped: "This pan is the property of the Birmingham Corporation...

Hello, I'm trying to trace a pub mentioned in the will of a Margaret Butler in 1813. She refers to the Green Man, Wood End, Erdington. I know of the Old Green Man (now the Lad in the Lane), Bromford Lane, Erdington but I'm trying to find out if Margaret's pub is the same one or whether there...