Recent content by BrummieGeoff

A photo of the Birmingham General Omnibus depot in Taunton Road, Balsall Heath .... dated 1903. It shows a Stratford Road omnibus, and (I think) two stagecoaches. The occupants of the attached house (and probably their cat) have also turned out for the photographer. Credit: Malcolm Keeley...

For those interested in Bournville Village housing, there is a very detailed ebook called "The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville" available for free on the Project Gutenberg site here .... https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73532 It was published in 1906, written by William Alexander...

The Taunton Road omnibus depot is referenced in the (excellent and very detailed) thread "Midland Red Early Days", but the photo was lost in the site hack. Apparently it appears on Page 13 of Malcolm Keeley's book "Midland Red Bus Garages of the Birmingham General Omnibus Department" .... the...

For reference, here's a later aerial view of the scene dated 1946 .... the Clifton pub is indicated by the arrow. Credit: Historic England

The photo was included in a 2019 post on Graham Knight's excellent FB page "Birmingham Old Prints, Photographs and Maps 1600-1900's". I believe that Graham was an active member of this Forum in the past, and I suspect many of us followed his FB page before it was suspended due to his ill health...

The first FB appearance I can find for this photo is in a post dated 1 September 2019.

As Pedrocut has flagged above, I posted that photo to the Forum last year. I don't recall where I got it from, but probably a FB history group. Is its authenticity being questioned because the foreground is clearer than the background .... or is there another reason?

Yes, I think you're probably right brummy-lad. The photo in Post #26 shows a row of 6 terraced houses with a gap at either end, and an entry between the second and third houses from the right. That configuration is shown in this 1855 map of Potter Street, with the picture angle indicated by the...

Difficult to say. But if they were being demolished to build that section of Corporation Street, then they would have been near to Lancaster Street.

This photo of the junction of Steelhouse Lane and Lancaster Street shows the end of Potter Street in the background. The shop on the corner of Lancaster Street and Potter Street is S J Rose Cycles, which has replaced the Old Green Man PH. It's dated as c1900.

This photo shows a row of old houses in Potter Street. I believe it's one of the series of photos taken by James Burgoyne showing sites that would be affected by the construction of Corporation Street. That development started in the 1870's, but the section that crossed Potter Street was not...

A later view of Potter Street and the Weights & Measures Offices .... dated as 1932.

Another photo of the Malt Shovel Inn .... dated c1867.

Here's an early photo of that branch, on the corner of Stratford Road and Shakespeare Street .... dated 1928. It was my childhood bank too.

I think this is a (later) view of the Station Street passenger entrance .... to the station, and the bridge that went over the platforms to the other side.