Recent content by SteveBhx

I have just popped back to this part of the forum to post a link I have found and noticed all the posts by Dionysius - apologies for overlooking these, I will come back to them and add details and reply and acknowledge where necessary. I came across this link when looking at the Lichfield...

A bit further up and we have this newsagents on the corner of (?) note the Evening Mail sign on the door and the two bricked up windows upstairs, typical corner shop although the changes it has seen over the years , plenty of cleared sites around it too.

As you know I am not aware of this are so go by the notes I have and apparently now we are moving up Adderley Road, a general view with the industrial buildings ahead of us. See the car peering over the wall - I assume there is a stack of vehicles behind the wall and building next to it withe...

me too used to love having a drink in front of City of Birmingham in the little cafe area, the canal was not as nice then - not sure we even new it was there!!

We are now on the corner of Arden Street and Adderley Road and the old school building , fine brick built Victorian School, I don't have the name but I am sure it will be known to many of you, I have a wider view and a closer shot of the building, like the tower nearest us the high metal framed...

To put the location into perspective - we are now looking down Garrison Lane towards Witton Street , just to the left was the site office across the road is Gordon Street.

Moving to the left and we can see how quickly these estate are build- the first shot had the site office - this one has completed house with the fencing around them. This is also where streets become confusing as while the name may be the same it has moved or changed dircetion to fit the...

We now move out of the City Centre to Bordesley Green and the then new development of Grasmere Park off Wolesley Street and Garrison Lane. This was the inner city redevelopment of the 1990's old house and factories were wiped away to provide " better " accommodation.

I think we have gone back a few streets now , this is Livery Street and Lionel Street, showing the size of the viaduct, and the arches and uses for those arches some are white washes and empty, some have doors and fanlights to all the light in and the smallest arch nearest to us is a Gents...

Next we have an often seen feature of the canals, whether these are in use I am not sure however I saw a big fire in Great Bridge a few years ago and all the doors were open and there were hoses and pump engines for quite a distance so a useful source of water in an emergency

Taken form a similar location but featuring the flight of locks and shows how much of a slope there is especially if you imagine it from Snow hill all the way up to The ICC ( I cannot keep up with modern name for it) and then doing that in a working boat - opening and closing the lock gates and...

Next we are in the tunnel under the rails at Snow Hill, see the enormous size of this structure, the damp on the roof glistening , and how the area on the right has not been tidied, it is left as a sandstone outcrop. The little tunnels on the right were a gathering place of the homeless and...

We now move to the hidden world towards Snow Hill from the canal - I have no specific details from thes, the first if from the direction of the old Science Museum, taken in 1992 so very much the way it has been for many years - it had not become a tourist attraction. Note the width of the canal...

now we have a view of the other side of the road , Taylor and Challen Limited in large lettering at the top of the building, the rest of the building remains the same although some of the windows have been replaced. so pretty much unchanged in years.

We now turn around and look down Mary Ann Street , lots of factories and looking down towards St. Pauls Square, it now seems to have become an area of restaurants with some having been converted to food courts, although these are relatively modern buildings ( second one has a date of 1950) many...