Recent content by Graham Paul Smith

My name is Graham Smith. I went to the school probably 1950 to 1956. I lived in Emscote Road, Witton. My three sisters Susan, Theresa, Paula and young brother Martin all attended the school. we all walked to school which was very exciting crossing major roads and looking in the shops and...

Thanks Dave, Graham

Dear Pedrocut, This looks interesting thanks, but I’ll open it on my desktop to read! Graham

Dear ‘Lady Penelope’, Yes, many thanks, I know something of St Pauls Sq. Not sure I ever went in the church. I taught architecture at Oxford Brookes and ‘we’ wrote a design manual in the 80s (Responsive Environments) in which one of our key propositions was ‘active frontages’. One of our...

Here is George St from Streetview. Graham

Could any members point me at a map, publication or a tour even, of Georgian buildings in Birmingham? Are there any whole streets still standing? I guess I shouldn’t be too demanding so any early Victorian ‘Georgian’ Streets would be good too. I’m helping support an Urban Design Group...