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I loved that library. I was about 8 or 9 when my mum took me to sign up so that I could take up to 4 library books out. I remember being given 4 beige coloured small cardboard wallets with my name on to enable me to borrow books. I remember the inside of the library almost step by step, from...

It's such a shame that so many stadiums have closed. I remember when they closed Perry Barr - I was there for the last night and I went home and cried - it was like a big chapter of my life had come to an end. Still, lots of happy memories to look back on.

Regarding Perry Barr Greyhound Stadium - the old Birchfield Road stadium - I cam across an old picture of inside the stadium - this brought back some memories of my time there from late 70's to early 80's when I was a parader.

A little before my time I think LOL.

Hello Pedrocut - Thanks for finding those pictures - that's brought back a few memories. I think that I recognise a couple of people from the March 1979 photo - on the left I think the small man might be Trainer Brian Jay with parader Sandra Whitehead but the 1978 picture I don't recognise...

Hello Pedrocut - thank you so much for the newspaper clipping - this has brought back some memories as I remember the dogs mentioned. These were very happy days for me - Andy was a lovely man to work for - he enjoyed having youngsters help at the kennels at the weekends, making the work a bit...

Hello Astoness - I remember the Crown and Cushion pub on the corner - it never seemed to have many customers. There was a small tucked away pub called the New Crown and Cushion on the opposite side of the road near to the bakers. Re the original Crown and Cushion which is shown to be African...

I used to be a barmaid in the Trocadero for a while, in the 80s when pubs used to get packed out - it was a lovely pub and had 2 separate bars and a dumb waiter for the food orders. It was said to be haunted!

Does anyone remember in the late 1960s and early 70's before you used to walk down into the Bull Ring from near where the Rotunda was if you walked to the left there was a fish and chip shop and if you carried on walking past it there was a small carousel at the end of the walkway. It was...

Wow - thanks for that. I know that my family home was built in the 30s. The entrance to the track looked a lot different in my times. I used to go in down a tree lined drive which was the car park on one side and a paddock which we used for the dogs on the other. This drive would lead to a...

Did anybody go to Great Barr School between the years of 1974 and 1982 (I stayed on for 3 years in the 6th form whilst I improved on my very poor 'O' levels? It would be lovely to see some photos from these years. I was in Kenilworth house - K1 and my form teach was Barbara Kimberly. Does...

Hello oldMohawk - what a lovely photograph. We always got our decorating supplies from that Bayliss as well. I remember that the shop next to it was like a bric-a-brac shop (which would be a pound shop in today's age) where you could pick up odds and ends and trinkets. We bought some...

Hi Everyone - working at Perry Barr dogs was my life when I was a teenager - I was there from 1975 when I started working for Colin McNally at the kennels behind the stadium at weekends and on race nights after school. I then worked for Andy Agnew when Big Mac moved to Cradely Heath. When I...

Hello again. Regarding Fame - the entrance to Fame had a sort of Foyer with a ledge around it which I was just slim enough to sit on as a kid and I used to sit there whilst my mum was buying the last part of her weekly shop - 200 cigarettes from the kiosk which was to the right side of the...

I was there from 1975 to 1983 as kennel maid and racing parader.

Hello oldMohawk - I remember Fame very well indeed for not a very nice reason. I was a 4 year old child at the time and was with my mother who was browsing upstairs. She was distracted by a display of something and took her eyes off me and I promptly put my hand in the excalator and very...

Hi - I'm new to this Forum and I have just found this thread about Regina Drive and the big house in the middle. I remember being told to go to that house by the security guard at the Greyhound Stadium in about 1975 as I wanted to help with the Greyhounds at weekends. He told me to go to the...

Hello everyone - I've just joined this Forum as I've been feeling very nostalgic about where I lived when I was much younger. I remember Lynton Square shopping centre very well as I used to help my mum with the shopping every Friday (I used to push it back on my bike as we never had a car when...