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Such a sad thing to hear, he will be much missed.

Cheap? Oh I can hear the '60s marketing team right now ... "No, no, no, never 'cheap', it's Beauty on a Budget, there's a world of difference!"

That's just brought back to mind something differently-funny regarding noises from so long ago ... We lived for a short while in California - no, the one between Weoley Castle and Bartley Green, lol. One of my schoolfriends lived in Northfield which isn't all that far away, and at some point...

A number over the years, but by far the loveliest was a good while ago now in Newcastle Upon Tyne - sometime in the eighties I would guess. I was up there for a business meeting, stopping overnight and returning the following day. The hotel was central and very close to a theatre - in my memory...

A little more about those Harborne photos (post 1700 and a few following) ... The fairly sharp junction/merge of Greenfield Road and High Street up by Henry Wong in P1700 is right where the cars are lining up in the distance on P1701. If you compare the roofscape of the buildings on the right...

"... the shop would have been one of the sections on the left hand corner between section 11 to 3" Yep, exactly where I remember *mine*, and (brain-cells permitting) it's a toss-up between 11 and 1 in my mind with 11 a whisker in front

I remember what I suspect to have been the same shop premises right on that corner, but a little later around '64/5/6 and by then a Gentleman's Outfitter from where I bought some trousers that I noticed on a display model in the window one lunchtime. They turned out to be too long, but I was...

I believe that's the shop that was either a bike shop or maybe a second-hand shop around 1953/4, from where I had my first two-wheeler (that I was hardly ever off for the next many years!) It was quite an event, as by then I had outgrown my 3-wheeler Gresham Flyer (with an actual boot on the...

I haven't noticed this mentioned elsewhere, but plans have apparently been greenlit for a complex of 5 buildings (Hotel + 4) between 10 and 49 storeys ranged around a new public square off Holliday St. described as 'A significant public realm improvement'. A mix of uses but majoring on student...

So very sorry to hear this, Warren. I never met your father in person but we bumped in to each other a few times on various threads, and quickly I could see why he was highly regarded. I did not hear of the Forum's past problems and his wonderful rescue for some time, and since then I have...

Happy Birthday Eric: our paths might not have crossed all that often, but your input in to so many aspects of things posted here has helped with recalling and learning more about not only 'My' Birmingham but also about other areas of this great City, their different characters, histories...

So, sling 'em all up there except one in order to avoid having to cart the lot back and forth every day, and just keep one on the van to get the others down when needed! The ingenuity of British Craftsmen at its best, with the added bonus of creating just enough time to drop in for a quick...

Ummmm ... but how would you get them down? Maybe bring a ladder? Oh, wait ....

A schoolfriend from St. Peter's Juniors (Harborne), Robert Homer, went on to Greenmore I seem to think .... That would have been in 1959, perhaps someone was there with him too? And I recall that it was *affectionately* known as Greenmore Cowsheds. Amazing the things that stick in your mind...

Reading through some of these gave me a couple of flashback memories from when I was somewhere around 6-7. I haven't thought about Henrys for a loooooong time even though it was a shop (before we had 'stores') that Mum and I would pop in to most times we Went Shopping In Town, which in the...

... and seeing this, the years instantly disappeared! It is now 1967, I'm working sometimes in Bush House and sometimes in Baskerville House depending upon which hat I am wearing that day. This particular day I needed to be in Bush House for a couple of hours, and when then strolling down to...

Yes undoubtedly referencing Birmingham in the broad context of the HS2 sequence behind the opening titles. But the tall building isn't round, it is octagonal ... so, The Octagon not The Rotunda. Good spot Tinpot.

Just a nice little memory prompted by this thread ... Up to the age of 11 I was at St. Peter's School, Harborne, before going on to Lordswood in 1959 after the 11+. Some time in what I believe was its last year - Sept '58 to July '59 - my class was taken to the Teachers Training College in...

Are there any past Harborne-ites reading? Maybe you went to Dr. McCook? In the '50s when I was just single-figures old our Dr. was the very pleasant Dora K. McCook with a soft Scottish burr in her voice. Her surgery was on High Street around a dozen properties down from the Post Office, in the...

OMG - imagine having first dibs on a Grand Piano!! I'd have changed career just for that! Still waiting ... maybe one day, lol.