Excellent photo Andy and you put it so well ''You feel as if you could walk into the picture'' That's the only Bull Ring I've ever known - I've not been in it for exactly 50 years this month.....and in my mind it's never changed.....memories....life in the bank.
I've seen a few places since but I can very clearly remember walking to the Bull Ring from Balsall Heath to buy the Sunday Times on Churchill's birthday a few years before, as it was giving away a big picture of him. No paper shop on the way had one, but I knew I'd get one in the Bull Ring, if not, at a station. I'd saved up for it and was as pleased as punch with it and it didn't rain on the way back either, so I got it home without a spot or crinkle - happy as a sand boy