Clive F

Happy Birthday Janice.

I think the pub's The Adam and Eve. The Anchor's further down on the corner of Rea Street.

Viv. There would have been a lot of changes in that area to accommodate the big island called Bordesley Circus and the bypass, Small...

My memory, and I hope I'm correct, is that Bolton Road ran in a straight line to the railway bridge as seen on #66 where it joined what...

Been all over the area this afternoon (on Streetview) with no joy. So revisited Clive's idea of Bolton Road. I found a 1960s photo. Lots...

This might help interpretation. The ‘hayloft’ is on the gable end of the building outline in red. The blue structure has a high level...

At the right hand end there is a dark space exactly as there would be for an entrance to a hay loft. The structure also seems to slope...

I can see the dark space you're alluding to Janice but I am looking at the patterned area in isolation. There are many features in the...

It looks highly likely now I've studied it a few more times. Bridges often have a raised pattern on the side, very like the pattern in...

I thought that the structure with the pattern which it has been suggested could well be the side of a railway bridge could be exactly...

The lie of the land and the buildings far off in the distance put me in mind of the bottom of Bolton Road, Small Heath as it goes down...

And some more:-

As promised (albeit a little later than planned) - here are photos from the other sides of the building - had to be taken from further...

And some more:- A damaged roof peeking through partially boarded up windows:- A tree grows out of a upper floor window frame:-...

I went to the old Birmingham Brewery building yesterday and got some close up shots of this wonderful old building - now in a very...