Stokkie

We now move around to the famous Hockley Underpass - constructed many years before the road was actually constructed but a bit of...

Heading back towards the roundabout and the new road layout with lots of traffic lights.

Moving back now to the redevelopment around Icknield Street, ( have a look at #1,945) and we now see the road as it looks like today.

We now look further up Cornwall Street and again we can see the wide variety of building up the road , grand premises most double...

We now turn around and look at the other end of Cornwall Street, another corner building with a turret type building stone window...

next we have a general view up towards Colmore Row, showing the wide variety of buildings note the modern building at the top of the...

Bit further up and we come to the corner with Cornwall Street, fine building with so much happening, from the left, entrance with almost...

We now have a name long gone Bradford and Bingley Building Society - this became a Bank and then was nationalised in 2000 with its...

We now move around the corner into Newhall Street and a selection of picture showing the variety of building styles along this road. We...

We now move onto Roll 74 - We start with a view of Great Charles Street - not sure much has changed here, a grey wet Birmingham day in...

Last one off this Roll and this is the demolition of the last building from the Spitfire production at Castle Bromwich taken is 1992.

My notes have this as Old Stratford Place off the Moseley Road - tracked it down on streetview and it looks a loveley building set on...

One year in my pre teen years me amd a couple of mates used to spend hours with a watchman, directly outside a recreation ground on...

Viv when my Grandad passed away in 1939, his occupation was listed as a Night Watchman. He was limited in his career due to losing his...

An amusing tale. Watchmen (pre-police/peelers) seem to have had a sentry box and were called "Charlies". This sentry box was on Easy...