Recent content by Morturn

Yes, the maps has it as a Medical Mission and it is looking like the whole corner building was a part of it. Maybe that explains why no entrance. If you look at the Google map view you can see the hint of a hipped roof linking the two building together.

A few years back I did a watercolour picture of our bull and donated it to a Birmingham charity.

Viv, I believe they were a marker for a stirrup pump station in case of fire in WWII

I can remember the Reliant factory on the A5 at Twogates when I lived in Tamworth. Images curtsy of:https://www.reliant.website/

I agree, it is a super museum and it would have been a sad loss to see it close

The Proof House backs on to the junction of the Digbeth Branch Canal and is accessed from Loverose Street.

Well there is a 13 bore gauge for shot guns. If I recall correctly the larger the number, the smaller the bore. I recall Punt guns were 4 bore, almost like a cannon. The choke on shotgun is to control how much spread the shot. They can be changed by inserting different choke tubes.

The good old days!

The Erdington Almshouses were built by the Sir Josiah Mason Trust and as Pedrocut correctly says the window are more like the orphanage

Happy birthday, have a super day

That works well

It is, the island is part of the stop lock that still there today. There use to be a single plank as a bridge to get to the island and some of the moored boats. I think it was sometime in the 90’s they build a proper bridge.

Happy birthday Kat, have an amazing day

It was disabled on this site unfortunately

Use the snip too Lyn. I also enlarged the page with my browser zoom function too.