Recent content by Lloyd

2003 photo of the station & footbridge. The Lichfield platform does not have a canopy, but buildings remain. Presumably the derailed train did not get to the platform until about where this photo was taken from.

I think that definition of 'soon' differs from everyone else's!

I was driving for Midland Red at the time – I was in Digbeth when the bomb (I only heard one) went off, and although I didn't know what it was, I suspected it would cause problems later. We had a few Irish conductresses at the time, and I felt sorry for them and a bit protective, them having to...

As said above, on the north side of Hagley Road near the Strathallen Hotel (is it still called that?) The bus route actually continued the full length of Portland Road till it met the Smethwick boundary and became Shireland Road and the terminus of the joint Midland Red / West Bromwich...

I was bought a similar thing, made of pink anodised aluminium, at an Ideal Home Exhibition. I think it was called a pantograph.

She was obviously aware of "The changing face of Birmingham" and wished to record those changes.

Hay was often used as floor covering on horse buses and trams, to collect what might be brought in on people's shoes from the roadway (horse era, remember?) and because men spitting was not yet criminalised. Anyone remember the "Spitting Prohibited" signs on buses last century?

Joseph Farndale CBE KPM (27 April 1864 – 8 August 1901) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Birmingham Police from 1882 until illness forced his resignation in 1900. His full and fascinating life history is documented here...

Joseph Farndale CBE KPM (27 April 1864 – 8 August 1901) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Birmingham Police from 1882 until illness forced his resignation in 1900. His full and fascinating life history is documented here...

All hand drawn! Was photography not a thing in the 1890s?

It was completely rebuilt. "The Anchor Inn (now just 'The Anchor') is one of the oldest public houses in Digbeth, Birmingham, England, dating back to 1797. The current building was constructed in 1901 to a design by James and Lister Lea for the Holt Brewery Company." (Wikipedia)

The official report into the 1902 collision: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BoT_SuttonColdfield1902.pdf

The Reliant factory, at Twogates, Tamworth, had been the original Midland Red bus garage in the area, taken over with the business of the North Warwickshire Motor Omnibus and Traction Company on Friday 1st February 1918. They built a new larger garage, opening Friday 3rd August 1928, closer to...

Sarah J Wicksey (nee Collins) passed away in the 3rd quarter of 1950 aged 84. She had married Frederick Henry Wicksey in the 3rd quarter of 1891.

I don't know how you can justify that statement when, like the existing rail network, HS2 will benefit the population and commerce of this country for the century after its construction and possibly the one after. Perhaps it shouldn't have been built, but then again, perhaps neither should the...