I wonder if anyone remembers Cox's bakeries. My Grand-dad worked for them from before WW1 and into the 60's. The bakery he worked at was at the junction of Icknield Port Road and Coplow Street. I am attaching a picture of how it looked. I think it is just open land these days. As children, we would visit every Saturday with Dad and go inside the bakery to see Grand-dad. Then we would buy some cakes from the Cox's shop next door (I always got an almond biscuit with a rice paper base) before travelling to see one aunt and uncle in Ryland Street, Ladywood and another aunt and uncle in Dawlish Road, Selly Oak.