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Thanks for adding the maps. Just wanted to add that the initials 'W.M.' on this c1950 and earlier maps appear to indicate there was a weighing machine or a weighbridge on Montgomery Street just before the entrance to the works. Would I be correct in assuming vehicles were weighed here before...
NOTES ON British Refuse Destructors WITH AN INTRODUCTORY COMPARISON OF BRITISH REFUSE DESTRUCTORS AND AMERICAN GARBAGE FURNACES BY M.N. BAKER, NEW YORK THE ENGINEERING NEWS PUBLISHING CO. 1905
Thanks for posting the postcard photo.
We are a group of tenants at Montgomery Street Business Centre in Sparkbrook that are negotiating with the Council to buy our site and keep it going Cooperatively as a business centre with small affordable start-up units.
We are very interested in finding...