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St Mary’s Row overnight road closure. You may have already seen the signs advising us that St Mary’s Row will be closed overnight from...

Thats amazing, just out of the blue, today my wife was talking to me about writers, she said, "did you know, all those books I've read...

St Marys Row was an integral part of Mosley Village. It had pubs, banks, shops, the village green and the public toilets [underground!]...

You can add me to that list. No offence to those who enjoy it, but the glorification of people who create nothing positive but make...

Hi Smudger, Agree with you. As do ten other folk - is that a record?

Sorry to be such a killjoy, but do we need more violent tv programmes? It seems there`s not enough violence in the world for some people...

If you are a fan of the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child [aka James Grant] there is a free exhibition celebrating his work just opened at...

I've had a response from National Archives. It should be Field Cookers, so there is some archive of Triplex

This may be of interest: called a chapel in the early days Graham Street Hockley Birmingham - Elim Tabernacle Church. On Graham Street...

Mikejee: What an incredible post on Lenches Trust!

Here is a view of the inhabitants of the Lench almshouses in Ladywood in 1912.

I guess that in 1757 when Baskerville designed his typeface it was a vast improvement on what else was available at the time. While I...

In between metal and digital that we now use on computers, there was photosetting whereby the type/letter was printed as an image on a...

I am watching with fascination the alterations to the road layout in St Marys Row in relation to Moseley Village Station. Work will...

I'm rewatching the wonderful series "Full Steam Ahead" as a box set on PBS America (see British History). Well worth a watch or re-watch...