Recent content by Mark Tooze

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!!

And here is one of last weeks "supermoon" - note the crater detail on the right hand edge:-

Nice sight to get up to this morning - Jupiter (bottom left) and moon close to each other in the dawn sky:-

This picture from 1954 shows the old Municipal Bank building (behind the black car):- The building is still there and has a couple of nice artifacts still on the wall:- It is one of the last old buildings left on that side of the street - but does not look out of place with the modern...

Managed to get a few photos from the car whilst stuck at traffic lights on Saturday - there is hardly anything left now:-

Excellent photos! Amazing to see quite a bit has changed since 2015. Incidentally we went to party in the Cube Hotel last Saturday in the Champagne Room circled below - some of the best views of Birmingham you will ever get!

Yes - in Fawlty Towers she and Basil were discussing how they were ever attracted to each other. Sybil comments "Black Magic my mother says" to which Basil replies "Well she'd know wouldn't she - her and that cat.........."

These are both of Barr St I think.

The taller building is the Gem Building. I knew it well as it used to be the home of M.Y. Darts and I used to work there at weekends when I was much much younger - sweeping up, dying feathers for dart flights and even turning a few darts on the lathes. All of these buildings still exist by the way.

This MAY be Six Ways Aston but I am not 100% sure.......

Got these 2 wartime images - don't know if of any help?

Yes - but please dont worry - they are fatty lumps. She did have one benign tumor behind her ear - that was removed 3 weeks ago. She has had these lumps for a while - they do not bother her and because of her age (14) the vet advises against removing them. She just gets on with things!

Took our dogs for a walk on the Streetley side of the park on Saturday and found an amazing range of fungi growing - they were literally everywhere! Luckily the dogs totally ignored them, even though the one is licking her chops.....

Remember to look for the "Harvest Supermoon" tonight if the clouds allow it. The first of three consecutive supermoons of 2025 will appear in our skies on Tuesday night. The full Harvest Moon rises in the UK at around 18:20 BST on 7 October. It will be the largest and brightest full Moon of the...

It was the most used local library in Birmingham too - but was in the wrong place allegedly......... nearly all the shops in the old Sainsbury Centre are now closed or moved (Hays Travel and Greggs have moved over the road); only a barbers, photographers and charity shop left and they wont last...