Hi Snooks, yes I think you are right about the bus garage on Bearwood Rd, coming from the Hagley Rd end it was down on the right hand side of the road and although I'm not certain I think it may have been turned into a market.
On our way to work we used to have our breakfast most mornings in the little café you mention, I can remember the two ladies than ran it and the smell of the sausage sarnies as if it were yesterday.
Had a good friend Toni Reynalds who lived in Bearwood, we would often go to the disco in the cellar of the Blue Gates down in Smethwick, they had a decent DJ and a dancer, had some great nights in there.
Miskin.