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That's not a vent pipe, but there are quite a few around the city, Their main job is venting the storm drains and sewers, not to let the smell out but to allow air to escape when sudden high demand fills the pipes and the risk of air locks could hinder the water running away smoothly. Sewer...

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The bus stop pole is there because this view must be in 1951, when the trolleybuses finished and the overhead wires and most of the traction wire poles would be taken down. As you say. trolleybus signs were octagonal, whilst tram ones were oblong, and bus stops were round.

The first photo in post #16 is not the depot, in fact the photographer is standing outside it looking towards the City.

1904 Brush, built in Loughborough and fitted with a French 'Mutel' engine. They were taken out of service in 1907 as unsuccessful, although some of them did run for a bit longer in Deal, Kent. The operating company, a forerunner of Midland Red, went back to horse traction until 1912 when better...

Under previous ownership, the small bar off Rea Street was unofficially the 'Midland Red Bar', used by many crews when duty ended (and possibly other times *cough, cough*) R.I.P Gerry senior & Mary who ran the pub when I first learnt of it's welcoming nature, and their son Gerry junior who later...

Report of the enquiry into the incident (PDF, at 7% of original size. Enlarge to 150% to read) https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Nuneaton1975.pdf Film of rescue, recovery and rebuilding

Thanks, mikejee. I stand corrected. The road on the left may be Reservoir Road, as the railway bridge can be seen in the distance. But where is Summer Road?

Surely not 'Six' ways until Sutton New Road was built?

Barges on the canals replaced packhorses and later wagons (which could carry more) on the roads. Railways replaced them for the same reasons, and later still lorries on tarmac roads did the same. Aircraft can now carry loads further and faster still. What comes next, in the future?

There was a 'pig bin collection' every afternoon from my school, taking the food waste (presumably to feed pigs). Not corporation, it must have been a private firm - or possibly the farmer - who used an old airport bus with the inside stripped out to collect the metal dustbins. SME 528, one of...

Royal West Kent? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SFcAAOSwujhmebV4/s-l1600.webp (The word under the horse is "Invicta".)

West Bromwich. Benjamin Crowther (1844-1909) was an undertaker and general 'job master' (horse renter) and contracted to run the last horse tram service in the district for the South Staffs Tramway Company (who supplied the tramcar to him), as they felt the route (to Spon Lane) didn't warrant...

Was going to say the very same thing!

Battery electric dustcarts - not for clean air but because they were charged up by plant burning the rubbish as fuel. No petrol cost!