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Below is a view from the canal of the Curzon Street Bridge in 1936. To the right, from the map, which has an arrow to show the...

Lovely praise for a lovely lady .

"Harvo" was a brand of malt loaf which was made at the company's bakery at 257 Lawley Street, Birmingham the company went bankrupt in...

I found school diner to be variable. My first school had a kitchen, but the food was tended to revolve around cabbage, carrots and...

it was 2/6 a week dinner money well spent we had very good quality food :grinning::yum:yum

All these School Dinners and Puddings has made Men and Women of you all . Dinner Ladies over the decades i salute you.

member northern lass has the word "guest"under her user name which means she is no longer a full member of the forum so unless she...

This is where I start to get really confused ! The Lapworth architects in their landscape review document of Great Barr Hall...

The mention of Malt loaf takes me back to my being a nipper. Mom used to take me to the Star cinema,bottom end of Slade Road and on the...

I think this was it when it was for sale some while ago ( see two aeriel views below). Hopefully it still exists. Was/is it here ?

Remember to look for the "Harvest Supermoon" tonight if the clouds allow it. The first of three consecutive supermoons of 2025 will...

I was wondering if it might have been the tower of the chapel at Perry Barr Crematorium but it wasn't opened until 1903, the original...

Think the perspective and/or scale is a bit off looking at the map below. And I doubt Christ Church steeple would have been that wide...

Old Perry by William Nicholls (1880). Obviously we can see the four spires of St John's the Evangelist (right), but is the single spire...

Gosling's is captured in this drawing (left) of Congreve Street (copied from an original). Is it the same Gosling pie maker ?