Recent content by Stokkie

The exhibition outside the Town Hall is over now, I'm afraid. But Jo Gane's video #12 in this thread is well worth watching. She explains the connection between electroplating and daguerréotypes clearly. The daguerréotype is a one off image on a copper plate while the future of photography...

Thanks Janice! That looks probable.

Thanks Lauren! So we can eliminate Reservoir House and Reservoir Cottage. Do you know what your cottage is called and what state it is in?

Welcome to BHF, Lauren. I struggled to find the cottage on-line as it is inside the grounds and not at the Rotton Park Rd entrance. I found this photo on Flickr River. The place is fenced off - but is this the cottage you mean?

My photo June 2023

The Old Swan (Ma Pardoes) is beautiful inside and out. The 'To Let' sign has been there for a while. It is a famous Black Country pub and still brews its own Beer. Take a trip out Brummies and boost the takings. I hope this one will keep going it has a strong following...

Gladys Rd, Bearwood. Infant & Junior School at top of our road, Thimblemill baths at the bottom. Late Victorian and Edwardian terraced houses with entries. In the 1960s there were not too many families with young children. But girls turned skipping ropes across the street, lads played football...

The 'other' Spotted Dog, Meriden Street/ Bordesley Street. Now closed?

Scenes A, B, C Meriden Street too. Compare Google Street View. [Edited - A is nearby Trent St as Mike pointed out.]

Scene D Proper Pizza - Opa Eats is in Meriden Street Scene I and following to K is Digbeth Branch canal.

£50,000 grant to the museum. It seems sensible to widen the scope of the present carpet museum and try to engage more visitors. I once knew a carpet weaver who was still working in his 80s because he had no pension. I do hope this museum is a success. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg8qe2znno

Hi Chanty, Possibly. See https://www.bcu.ac.uk/arts/art-and-design-archive/collections/school-of-art-archive You can make an enquiry. Good luck! Stokkie

Thank you Jon, I'm grateful and I think we all benefit from understanding the link to Birmingham School of Art. The other woman from Birmingham School of Art, Pamela Downing joined BP as a Foreign Office civilian in 1941, she appears to have been a painter, then a dress designer.

Thank you Jon. Your personal comments and recollections are informative. I did wonder if Freddie and Fred Winterbotham might have known each other? Fred Winterbotham must have seen or been told that architecture students could have the skills he was looking for. Do you think it is significant...

Bill Berrett studied Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1950- 1955. His website is very informative. https://billberrett.info/birmingham-school-of-architecture.html He says it was the School of F R S Yorke and Freddie Gibberd in the pre-war years. Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd CBE, RA...