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Morturn's latest activity
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Remember the pork butcher H Knight a few images ago - to the right of that shot is a line of buildings - this is Albion Works, Great... -
This image has lots of history in it - plenty that you would not get these days, this is Dawsons The Ironmongers, again taken in 1966...
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Back to Roll 51, firstly corner of Lee Bank and Elvetham Street apparently some of the last buildings to be demolished in the area in...
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One of the issues with going through the rolls of film consecutively is there may be a better version of a photo later on - this has...
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Final picture on this roll and one that shows the affect of the Middle ring road - it was taken looking down Pitsford Street , at the...
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Turning 180 degrees we see the Birmingham Mint on Icknield Street, seems to be taken from a very muddy central reservation just after...
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This fine image is of the Great Western Goods Office in Pitsford Street, as can be seen the end wall is been reduced and I am afraid it...
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With a jump of 30 years we are now in 1991, and a view down Long Acre - it seems most of these picture from the 1990's were taken on a...
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With a better image - although also available in the Great Hampton Row thread, we can now see that Woods and Potter are the newsagents ...
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Continuing on Roll 48 we have what is described as old shops and houses Great Hampton Row and St Georges Place Hockley. Now we have a...
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I'm trying to discover more about a lady named Annie McKenna, who lived with her husband Peter at 176 Bromsgrove Street until her death...
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Dolerite (Rowley Rag) quarried mainly from the large dolerite quarries on and around the Rowley Hills, and then dressed in nearby stone...
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janspeed exhaust. twin SU, A4 cam niterided crank balanced conrods lightend flywheel powermax pistons.... escort mk1 now a standard ford...
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Morturn replied to the thread Cobbles or Setts.There were quarries at Mancetter, Atherstone who employed gangs of women to cut sets for roads. They did it all with hammers by hand and...
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Some streets such as Pickford Street seen to retain the setts in the road. They may be made of granite or Rowley Rag and it would be of...
