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Used to be a great old pub, remember having to go and get my boss out of there when he sometimes got stuck in a “lunchtime meeting” lol … also, was there last weekend and completely misjudged how to cross the road to get to the O2 academy. Had to introduce my 16 year old to the joys of using a...

I’m so glad The Black Eagle in Factory Road is still going, when I lived in Marroway Street in the 90s it was my weekly treat to go for pie, chips and a pint in there on a Wednesday night

I used to pop into the Windmill in the 90s, it was basic but sold crisps etc plus a stash of chocolate bars behind the bar which was useful if you were peckish,, I think they used to get quite a lot of trade from the factory it backed on to.. there was also another pub on the corner opposite...

I think the Staff signs are from when Jonathan’s ran it asa a tea room a few years ago ..

Unless my memory is failing me the house used to be a posh Afternoon Tea room (Jonathan’s in the Park) up to a few years ago , we booked it for my parents 70th birthday between Covid lockdowns. The food was really special and the staff very attentive., they made my parents feel very welcome and...

The Fox and Grapes used to be run by a “friend of a friend’s” mum in the late 80s before they started all the demolition and redevelopment proper. It was a proper drinkers pub, you were lucky if you could get a bag of crisps as food behind the bar but the Guinness was really good,, I remember...

The OCs was my work pub ( used to work at 1 Colmore Row,) had a few rowdy nights there…..later when I worked in the Council House we always used to pile into the Old Joint Stock after meetings on a Monday/ Tuesday …

The Costermonger was in the concourse that led from Bull St .to The Oasis, it used to be a proper Rock pub and I went their for my cousins Hen do in the late 80s….

Yes I used to live in Brookfield Terrace (off Western Road B18), and when I bought the terrace it was previously “enveloped” in the 80/s or 90s ( not sure). New wooden windows which looked like sashes, central heating , dpc. I think BCC got some sort of urban renewal grant spot do this when the...

Only the front and possible entrance of St Thomas’ remains, my grandmother was married there before it was bombed

Yes think it used to be the offices of a consulting Engineer ( can’t remember the name though,) I went to school down the road i think most of that bit of Edgbaston is a conservation area

I remember that subway I used to work on smallbrook Queensway and if ever I had to get to Bath Row used to look both ways then literally leg it through the subway, which always stank of wee. Thank god most of them are gone now in the city centre

Yes my Dad was a Civil Engineer and the co he worked for did a lot of work on it. I can remember going round it pre opening feeling really proud, we all had to have those daft polythene overshoes on so we didn’t mark the new floors! And yes the acoustics are still brilliant: used to go to cbso...

Hi yes the “old” cemetery in Kings Norton is at St Nicholas Church and OGS, subsequently a bigger cemetery was consecrated maybe around 2007/8 which is in the edge of the Primrose Estate.

I used to go into Fire HQ for meetings 2004-2007 I was always so in awe if the lovely marble floored entrance hall, think the staircases had brass handrails. The parquet floors were to die for and I think from memory there were memorials in the main hall entrance to fire personnel who lost their...

I was told by someone who was ex army that if you didn’t join a local regiment it was either because you enlisted and got posted where there were in need of soldiers, or because some enlistees weee underage and it was easier to enlist with a non local regiment ?? Not sure if this is correct ?

I could kiss you!,, thanks so much

I posted this elsewhere but my mum said Dr Lawcett delivered her she was born in 1941 and the Dr went all the way out to Quinton to attend the birth as my grandparents had moved out there by then! ( wouldn’t happen nowadays, ha!)

Wonder if anyone can help me, my Mum said the doctors on Cregoe street delivered her in 1941. My mum’s grandfather had a grocers on Cregoe street before the war (Howletts.) and my grandfather and grandmother lived in a house on Elvetham road. the house was bombed out in the war whilst my gran...