Recent content by ER Allen

No problemo!! Keep that recovery mode recoverin'!!

Keep me up to date if you do it. Would be interesting to share feedback on course modules.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-from-the-past

It was a good course. Not looking at a particular period, but rather how to do historical research generally. There is more to doing it than just googling a term. Only drawback, a lot of the course was focussed on using the British Library, but due to a cyberattack, a lot of the British...

Thanks, will try.

May I ask the source of map? Thanks.

Sad update: school building was demolished in 2015.

Is it possible to re-post the interior photos? They appear to be missing from the thread.

Well! I didn't realize this photo would spur such interaction. But even though the church appears to not be in Birmingham, the photographer may well have been a Brummie. So there is a link after all. Cheers to all you Sherlocks!

Thanks for your replies! Too bad we can't post an answer on brummages' blog. Oh well.

I was examining an old blog, brummages.blogspot.com, which has shown no activity since 2016. One post had a photo of a church, and the author asked for help in identifying it. No one has responded. Only clues are "Birmingham", and "J. Hurton (or Burton)"

Oops! And all I had to do was scroll down! Will accept twelve lashes with a wet noodle as penance... Thank you!

This link doesn't work anymore. It redirects to the embassy of cambodia or a porn site. Also having problem accessing photos at U of Brum: http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/chrysalis.html the link opens, but then gives you: Oops! Something went wrong. This page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See...

I realize this is not Birmingham history, but shows these events happened elsewhere: "The Cuyahoga River which flows into Lake Erie – caught fire in 1969 (and) ignited a firestorm of public outrage over the indiscriminate dumping of sewage and industrial chemicals into the Great Lakes... Mats...