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All of the pubs I used regularly when I lived in Brum have long gone, the Lozells Inn (18th Birthday party), the Waterloo Stores, Burnt out and demolished, the Rocket in Nechells became a Mosque, the Farcroft in Handsworth ( 21st Birthday, Engagement Party and Wedding Reception) was converted...

In the 1960's we lived in Wills Street, on a Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock it would be time to listen to the football results and check the pools coupon, this would be accompanied by tea, which was usually a pigs trotter!.....one day we came home to find my Dad boiling a pigs head... it was...

I know...it was one of several pubs in the area that got completely stripped out while closed down.....same happened to the New Inns in the Soho Road.....oddly the large Ansell's sign was still on the side wall last time I drove past although it had long since been converted to a shop

By the 1960's the two shops on the left of this photo subsequently became Woolworths, I think the shop next door or on the corner was a bakers

I was a regular visitor to the toyshop....couldn't wait to spend my pocket money on Airfix models and scale soldiers....the window was actually a large bay window, the right hand side return next to the wall was full of cheap Airfix models in plastic bags hanging in the window......the other...

The Pub in the top picture is the Lozells Inn....I had my 18th Birthday party in the room with the bay window at first floor in 1972....it was a surprise party organised by my mates and the team from Woolworths which is a bit further up the road on the right!

Anyone remember the name of the furniture Store next to Wastells, I used to work on the furniture delivery vans delivering as far away as Smethwick and Handsworth, most of it must have been sold on the HP as occasionally we also follow the bailiff around collecting furniture if ever anyone...

My Dad would have been at Anglesey Street School in the late 1930's....but the family lived at the bottom end of Anglesey Street then (house was demolished in about 1970).....we moved up to Wills Street in 1960, and I would walk down to Anglesey Street Infants School, almost 30 years after my...

Family Planning.....went there with my girlfriend about 1974!