Recent content by Mark Tooze

Another photo to take your breath away - superb detail on zoom in:-

Each of these 3 people would have their own very different tales to tell about life in 1905 - it would have been great to hear them.........

What a WONDERFUL photograph this is - there is so much going on in it, and the fact it probably sourced from a glass plate negative means you can zoom in to really examine the detail

Parked in Belmont Row (or whats left of it) late last night waiting to pick my daughter up from late shift in the Bull Ring. Took a few photos with my mobile - the front of this building is BEAUTIFULLY restored:- Note the intact fire bell on the wall, and the classless sign above the door:-

Total lunar eclipse visible from Birmingham next month - will be hard to see well as moon will rise in eclipse phase:- Full details on here - for any part of the world:- https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk/birmingham The one in August 2026 looks MUCH better from Brum:-

This years open day is on September 13th:- Join us for a fun-filled day at the Museum Collection Centre, Birmingham Museums’ 1.5-hectare store, holding over 80% of the City’s collection all under one roof. Come and take part in a full day of family-friendly activities all while exploring our...

But - if you get a clear night (like last night) you can see the difference in sharpness:-

Nice moon last night too - low in a hazy sky so not as sharp detail as usual:-

We had a couple of (I think?) buzzards flying over the house yesterday - sounded like they were having a bit of a barney......

On most sites (ie: 28dayslater) you have to become a member to see the vast majority of content. I think that is fair enough. Its not like we are asking for the earth. If all 409 guests joined and donated a pound a month that's nearly £5K extra per year coming in.

Agreed - I also signed up. Just looking at the home page we seem to have lots of guests and very few members on line at present:- Is there anything we can do to encourage the 409 guests to become members I wonder - assuming they are not all bots of course!

Yes they were - forgot about them! We also used to have inter-factory accounting dept at the very end of the top floor but they had moved down to the main accounting offices years earlier. This was their office on the day we left the building:-

Pity only around a quarter of the route will have anything worth looking at through the windows. The rest will be in cuttings or tunnels apparently....... Hope they will have a good in-flight video to watch........ Having used trains in France, Germany and the rest of Britain more times than I...

Yes - approximately. The club closed because (allegedly) it needed a 6-figure sum spent to re-roof it. Dunlop Hall was shut earlier when asbestos was found in it I think. Early-mid 1990s. Pictures of the computer annexe above are from just before it was demolished - we had already moved down to...

It also involved a man on one of those little digger things with a kango-hammer end bit - he was left right on the end of the remaining bit of floor. Do wish I had had my camera with me that day.................. This was the computer annexe building by the way - taken after Commercial Offices...