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Does anyone remember The Heartbeat. You went up a ramp and it was above the bowling alley and The Silver Blades Ice Rink. The DJ’s played mainly reggae and blue beat. I went there most weekends in the late 1960’s

I saw The Foundations there

Yes it was up Needless Alley off New Street. It was a pub with a DJ. You went downstairs to it and then it was on two levels. I spent many happy Saturday nights there probably late 60’s early 70’s

I went there a couple of times in the 1960’s but don’t really remember much about it

Thanks ChrisM, I think it’s just me as a novice on the forum. The info you have given is great even for a technophobe like me. I only found this site by accident and signed up straight away

Hi Rob, thanks for replying. I am looking for a farm that was where Bournville Lane Police Staion is. The tenant farmer was Wilfred Lucas and some refer to it as Lucas Farm although that wasn’t the correct name. My father worked on the farm and I spent a lot of time ther as a child in the early...

Thank you. I’ve always wondered what the smell was. I don’t think the treatment helped me. I had very pale skin and couldn’t tolerate the sun so it beggars belief why i had this done to me

I had my tonsils out in Litle Bromwich Hospital in 1958. I lived near to Selly Oak Hospital so I don’t know why I was sent there.

I had this treatment in the mid 1950’s at Maas Road Clinic Northfields. I remember it exactly as you recall but also remember a very distinctive smell. I was a very thin child and I think the treatment was because of this - maybe rickettsia or failure to thrive as it would be called now maybe