They designed a hood to sit over those overhead wire contacts so that sparks couldn't be seen from above.View attachment 108726 View attachment 108727 View attachment 108728
December 1939
Spoiling the Black-out
Colonnade Passage, New Street
Bombers in the making
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Christmas as usual...Christmas at the Post Office...Birmingham shopping crowds.
And that is the end of the year.
View attachment 109125 This may be interesting concerning The Lad in the Lane in Erdington. The Evening Despatch of the 2nd of February 1939 reports that it is closing!
Will search the paper for further details.
Yes the Lad is still going strong. The new landlady Donna is now serving cask ale....HEAVEN!
14 November 1940 was the bombing raidView attachment 108662
On November 18th 1939 the Birmingham Mail carried this picture. The photographer would not have any idea of the horrors to come, but notice the cannon that is pointing towards us.