This is the position I suggested for he cottages in photos #4 and #5 in Mike's post #410. The blue dots being cottages and the red dots being the tall wall. I suggest it's roughly there as I think the wall is a commercial /industrial building and the land could still be classified today for commercial/industrial use as a business park. Vv.
Maybe old maps from the Wright St and Cato St areas could be looked at to see if buildings with the same plan shape as the one in the photo could be spotted next to houses at right angles to a street.Vivienne
I can tell you from memory that there was no housing either side of Saltley Viaduct, just gasworks, railway sidings, public works dept & commercial properties, but here's a map from around the time Mike was taking his photos so you can see for yourself.
Most Schools had a tower or a steeple, I always thought that these had something to do with fresh air circulation, if you can imagine what was like in Victorian days when most of these schools were built.
Maybe old maps from the Wright St and Cato St areas could be looked at to see if buildings with the same plan shape as the one in the photo could be spotted next to houses at right angles to a street.
Nice video Richie. Will study it later.
A few things crossed my mind about Mike's 4th and 5th cottages. The first is they're built of different brick to the regular bricks used in the area (is it London brick). The second is they remind me of artisan cottages built for railway workers. Sometimes they were squeezed in alongside railway property. Could these be? Viv.
I've looked at available aerial photos and also cannot find any houses near viaducts or embankments in that area.
Like others I'm reduced to looking at small details in the pics and they probably won't help ...
There are two terraces of only two houses at right angles to the road.
The houses have unusual small windows between the bedroom windows over their front doors . I can't recall previously seeing houses with that window layout.
The one terrace has the large building really close to it. The flat drained roof over the angled part of the building suggests there is a room underneath. Also the shadow on the right wall seems to indicate that the high wall finishes just out of shot.
There are out-houses with chimneys on the house gable ends adjacent to the road.
The houses have small front and back gardens and narrow access roads.
The houses have rooms each side of their front doors and so accomodation is not small and not cramped.
The street light in photo5 is different to the one in photo3 pics and could indicate a different road or even area.
Mike
Have you never been to the Watford Gap (Blue Boar) then?
If you remember when I first saw these photos I was pretty convinced that they were taken in Darwin Street Highgate at the rear of the Alhambra Cinema, but I have since consulted the maps and can see that it can't possibly be there. Though I am pleased to note that several contributors have formed the same idea as myself that the building in the background is a cinema.
The reason why I have not contributed any guesses or suggestions to this section of the thread is the same reason why I have not for some of the others. I am all guessed out. Which makes me especially pleased to see that you took the advice to post some of these untitled photo's so that others may take a stab at them. Thankfully some of them have been given locations and to be honest a couple of them I never thought would be.
The thing is they are out there now, and even if some of them prove difficult as it seems these two are then we may have a new member join sometime in the future who will know exactly where they are located and might even have lived there.
Watford Gap (Northants) is a long way from Watford (Herts)! I've noticed on other threads that new or existing members contribute vital info to subjects sometimes years into dormancy. And of course it's terrific fun for us, lighting our pipes and donning our deerstalkers...