great photos winston, crikey, i remember all those very well, i had mates in those exact houses in cromwell street and scofield street, how the bloody hell we survived in those conditions staggers me, i also used to swim in the canals bottom of long acre, we realy moved up a peg when we swam up the walsal canal great barr, no dirty mud or slime, just the odd dead dog,-do,s any one have any idea why the queue down the gas works?? me and my kid brother had to get our coke from there on a saterday morning but i,ve never seen a queue that big, would it have been to collect the daily mail boots i wonder?