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Aerial view of Garbett Street 1937 (not good quality), doesn't seem to match the map very well so I assume some houses were lost to...

James Lancaster is listed as a steel spectacle maker at 93 Cecil Street in Pigots 1841 directory. By 1845 he is at 67 Hanley Street and...

Any pinball fans ? Pinball was hugely popular in the 60's, every cafe & lots of pubs had at least one machine. As well as pinball...

Bridie's cafe on the Coventry Road, opposite Small Heath Park, had a number of the Bally Bingo machines. You are right, they were...

I can't remember the name of the cafe, I remember one day someone had ramped up the odds to highest by spending credits and then managed...

Yes, right back to the 1960's I played in there, the cafe I mention did not have flipper machines but what they called bingo machine...

.On the camera thread, (https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/birmingham-camera-companies.47919/#post-595730) Viv listed this...

Wish I’d seen this earlier. My 3 times great grand father is the Joe Wareham ( Warom) mentioned in some of the articles. He fought...

Article about The Woodman on the BBC Birmingham website this morning... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7rd37re7o

I think that definition of 'soon' differs from everyone else's!

The 1871 and 1921 census has the Old Robin Hood at 102 Garbett Street, corner of Summer Hill Road.

here is a photo of the beehive pub and the old robin hood although i am not sure where in the old robin hood was expect it was on a...

A map from 1950s, unfortunately I don't think any of the photos show No. 24 but I will look to see if there is an aerial view. Photo 3...

hi gough...i have these photos...photos 1 and 4 shows kings edward road to the right...photo 2 shows numbers 10.11 and 12 garbett st...

I did have a quick look to see id the Wolverhampton family were related but I didn't think it was. If I'm remembering correctly I think...