Thanks Lyn, I'm with you now, the Church looked too far up Lozells Road but now realise how much land was taken for that island...
Lyn, the mom and young lad were my mother and me! The person who was knocked down was an elderly gent who I think had just come out of the bank. This was in the 1950's....mom would catch the No 5 to Six Ways to use that branch of the Municipal Bank rather than the nearer one in Perry Barr. Never knew why!
Big Gee
There was a pub on the left of the photo at the top of Alma Street. Was it called the Dew Drop. I remember when they started pulling down all the houses going up Alma Street towards Six Ways not too long after the Council had spent a lot of money renovating them!