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I'm in Australia but my Nan from England taught us this. We still remember it 50+ yrs later. This is the version I recall. Don't mind...

Below is a photo supposedly from 1966 of part of Victoria Street, Bordesley, together with a map of the street from the 1950s From the...

Nicholas Hennessy was the Minister of the Congregational Church from 1891 to 1903 and lived a short distance away on Coventry Road. I am...

No, I don't think I do. What can you tell me?

Thanks for that i wondered what happened to it all. I used to work with with the millwright Albert Mills ...he had a son who worked on...

couple more photos...most say taken outside mrs evans shop which was at no 298 lyn

Sadly "my friend" with what seems to be the mis-information was a volunteer at our local museum. Found a quote in a history book,(...

Thank you all for your help.

My great grandfather (George Clement Power), Henry's son, tells the story of traveling to France with him to buy hops. He also worked...

The entrance to the Public Works Depot was in Cardigan Street in which ended up rightly as rover said City Engineers Department. Fleet...

Just after I left school in1963 I worked on the construction of The Depot for Public Lighting in Curzon St. For Morris and Jacombs the...

Thanks for that i wondered what happened to it all. I used to work with with the millwright Albert Mills ...he had a son who worked on...

My dad worked at Curzon street was on street light maintenance . He worked on lights in the Queensway tunnel and Spaghetti junction .

1966-1970 fitter. All gone now cannot find any trace. (Just another memory!)

I remember the Public Works Depot in Curzon Street. I think the Public Works department was absorbed into the City Engineers Depot maybe...