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Walking down Hurst Street and looking across an expanse of ground that had recently been demolished I saw something I hadn't noticed before. There is a building called Baskerville House on Barford Street...

This appeared on Facebook in a post from the Ark Tindal Primary Academy. "This beautiful plaque, commemorating the ultimate sacrifice made by the old boys of Tindal Street school in the Great War, has sadly not been sighted for some years. We would love to see it returned to the school for...

This memorial was found by someone in a skip and has been passed to other people who are trying to find out where it came from so that it can be relocated. Although most of the people listed come from Balsall Heath there are some on there from Bordesley and Kings Heath. From the picture itself...

This memorial was found by someone in a skip and has been passed to other people who are trying to find out where it came from so that it can be relocated. Although most of the people listed come from Balsall Heath there are some on there from Bordesley and Kings Heath. From the picture itself...

Since there seem to have been a lot of you taking pictures around this time, I've got someone looking for a picture of Kench's chip shop as a single building (everything else demolished). I'm not entirely sure whether it was on Gooch St or Longmore St but it would be around the late 60s early...

Every so often, they change the channels available on freeview. Earlier this year they added a new channel called Talking Pictures (channel 81). They run old (mostly British) movies and the odd TV show. Look at the schedule on the TV guide. You might see something you remember.

In the 70s and 80s I bought a lot of vinyl records from various shops around the city and, for some reason, I still have some of the plastic bags they came in. It seems that most of the old record shops had their own designs that they either kept up or changed over the years. Anyway, I...

https://robspaintings.com/ Not so much of the historical material and the style is more cartoony than regular paintings but this guy paints birmingham scenes that some of you will recognise and, if you can see the captions, he does have a sense of humour. He sells most as framed, unframed or...

Slightly off-thread here as it's a radio show. As far as I can tell this is a period detective show set in Birmingham. The vagueness is from the show itself not mine. The central character is from Wolverhampton (although not originally) and moved back to the city that she was born in. At one...

What follows are a set of links to sites that offer free music on the Creative Commons license. There are lots of others but these in particular point to pages of out-of copyright recordings. I know most of you prefer the 50s and 60s but this is generally older stuff...